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You get a lot of weird requests when people find out you can draw semi-decently, but by far my favorite was the time when my grandma saw an antique quilt that she liked and she asked me to help her pirate the pattern.
Yo ho ho. ☠️🏴☠️
Bristol-based art-academia-community group MakingLearning are producing a series of patchwork poems - each patch contains a word, and is made by a different person. I just did the piecing and the quilting. MakingLearning may be Bristol (uk) based, but for the patchwork poem project we've received patches from lots of different places - not just other places in the UK, but also from other countries in Europe, and other continents. So if you think this is something you'd like to participate in, please don't think distance is a barrier! Get in touch, and we'll post a patch out to you. MakingLearning has a Facebook page, which you should totally check out: https://m.facebook.com/makinglearning
I really like how quilts like this start to look a lot like graphic distortion on computer/TV screens. (I love that humans can find even glitches and errors to be aesthetic and wonderful and fascinating).
I finally finished this quilt top tonight-sorry for the poor lighting- I just couldn’t wait! I love how hundreds of scraps from my other projects came together to make something so happy and vibrant. #quilt #quilting #scrapquilt #scrappyquilt #triangle #trianglequilt #wip #colorful #colors
Maaaan, I really need to get back to practicing free-motion quilting.
Quilting Circles - Ruler Work
I am having so MUCH FUN with the Circles on Quilts templates by Westalee Design by Sew Steady. There are so many possibilities.
Two Circle on Quilts sets include four sizes that can quilt concentric circles from 2-inches to 12-inches at ½ inch increments.
The templates rotate from a pivot point. A metal tack is placed underneath so the template rotates from from the same axis point to create concentric circles. Watch short video demo below.
Using the Circles on Quilts is so EASY. With the right free-motion tools: thread, needles, supreme slider, a machine capable of free-motion quilting and gloves, all you need is Westalee’s ½-inch ruler foot and the templates to make perfect circles WITHOUT marking.
A 10-inch and 9.5 circle made the outer 1/4inch channel and a 6-inch and 5-inch circle created the inner ½-inch channel. Both channels created space for a beautiful swirl of feather plumes. A 2-inch circle in the center and the 5-inch circle encase the swirl design.
So, what do you think? Are you ready to try the templates?
Mood: cozy patchwork and pieced Halloween quilting 🧡
My quilt is finished! I think it took about 10 months, if I compress the time it took to find all the fabrics.
Edit: Thank you all so much for the kind comments, wow! I’m stunned by the numbers. I wish all your sweet comments in tags were just replies so everyone could see them, because y’all are so sweet (and funny).
I grew up with a grandma who quilted, but she’d never been interested in passing along the hobby, so when she finally kicked it I was the grandkid who got all her materials, ‘cause I was the only one who knew how to use a sewing machine. Then, in 2015, a friend had a baby and I figured I’d make her a quilt, ‘cause how hard could it be?
oh
my
god
Luckily I am the stubbornest human alive, ‘cause I never woulda finished otherwise. I didn’t know what I was doing, didn’t know the terms to look up how to do anything, I musta reinvented the wheel like eight times and it took ten months, BUT I DID IT.
Figured I’d suffered enough and would never do it again and now I’m on quilt #9 smdh
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I’m hyperventilating.
Holy shit. Holy SHIT.
This is INCREDIBLE.
Oh my god.
I’ve gotta go lay down holy shit look at this how do we just walk by other human beings every day and live our separate lives when there’s a person sitting next to you on the train or in line for coffee who goes home and makes things like this what even IS being human holy shit.
GOOD FUCKING JOB.
🌌 The Look Up, Look Up Quilt 🌌
This one was inspired by the Northern Lights and the polar landscape particularly Svalbard.
One thing about the Lights that photography can't capture is their movement. The colors might look brighter in photos but they way they dance in person is, for me, what makes them so magical which is what I wanted to try and capture with this quilt and if you look at it for a bit, the contrasting shapes and lines do make it appear to move.
The colors of the lights were dyed by myself using melting snow to apply the dye resulting in unique patterns and colors. The other fabric is from thrifted cotton sheets.
Machine pieced and hand quilted. Approx 60 inches in diameter
You can see more of my quilting here and the rest of my art here
XO quilt block video tutorial
If you’re interested in learning how to make a beautiful and simple quilt block that’s perfect for beginners, you’re in the right place! In this video tutorial, we’ll be showing you step-by-step how to make the XO quilt block. The XO quilt block, also known as the Hugs and Kisses block, is a classic design that has been used in quilting for many years. The block consists of four half-square…
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Better Homes and Gardens Patchwork & Quilting, 1977.
Finished a quilt top! This is for my cousin’s new baby. It’s a mix of EPP and machine piecing — I paper pieced the hexagons, added corners to make them rectangles, and machine pieced the borders to get 10” squares. Now I gotta decide how to quilt it.
This is magnificent!
Holy shit, y’all have got to see this art deco dream of a quilt from Reddit:
Little sassy bird wants to know when we're moving. I want to know too. That last dang hurricane set things back a week or two.
All of the furniture and tools from the old house for my sewing room are finally here. The washer AND dryer are finally installed (don't expect this to be an easy process with either Lowe's or HD). Just about all things are moved up. So of course yesterday I needed a day off. A good long walk in the woods. Today I'll get to work.
I've had this little Amish shelf tucked away in a box for a few years. While unpacking it today, an idea struck me. Maybe dress the little shelf up a bit. So I made a tiny quilt to give it life.
The first blue star block.
I've had this quilt in my head for a few weeks now. My first time with the traditional Ohio Star block. I'm calling this one my blue star quilt.
This is the lightest blue I'm using of all the blues I've pulled for this quilt. It's more of a dark medium. Then I thought varying light color background units would add interest.
We've been having lows in the 40s. The leaves are starting to respond.
It's only the second week of November and I feel like the autumn is already waning. I'm not ready to see it go.