Dyeing to tell you is a large quilt adorned with a hand-made self-portrait that aims to provide care and comfort to the self. The figure is composed using slept-in linen bed sheets that have been naturally dyed with foods and food scraps such as avocado pits and black tea. These fabrics are layered and machine-sewn to form a self-portrait that seeks to mend self-perception in response to experiences of fatphobia and dismissal of invisible pain. The materiality of the piece reframes food as a powerful source of joy, nourishment, and color as opposed to fearful, weight-centric and calorific readings. The work aims to dismantle limited misunderstanding of health and reclaim bodily autonomy after negative gendered shaming experiences. Damaging phrases that are often directed towards those with larger bodies or those who have an invisible illness are sewn with a light-colored thread, fading into the background against the scale and saturation of the figure. They reflect the societal misunderstanding of women's health and pervasive fatphobic attitudes that alter one's perception of themself. The quilt's large scale serves as a strategy of reclamation, allowing fat bodies to occupy space in a world that pushes them to be smaller and often excludes them in design. The figure offers comfort to itself in regards to both internal and external pain experiences, with the use of sewing and crafting speaking to a mending of one's self-perception.