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🐢Turtle shirt patchwork is done!🐢

now I actually have to make the shirt 🙃

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5th quilt top made. I hope to start handquilting these quilts this weekend. #quilting

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i almost finished piecing the top of this friendship star quilt tonight but my partner made me go to bed 😭 spoiler of the blocks under the cut, not the final layout but its pretty similar

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i want to know the perfect way to organize and store fabric scraps and i want it to come to me in a heavenly vision instead of experimenting with trial and error. i think in an ideal world i could hire gnomes or borrowers to sort them

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More work on the next baby quilt. I've reached the point that I need to cut more magic 8 squares. Gonna do that tomorrow

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So, @bi-dubmass11 asked how I got my squares symmetrical in the Twisted Snowball quilt, and I decided a little tutorial couldn’t go amiss! (Also, it got a little complicated to explain in just words so here’s a whole dang post lol)

So. I start by cutting my fabrics out. The focus fabric (orange) is 4.5” square, the blue is 6.5” by 2.5” and the pink is also 6.5”x2.5”

Nothing looks like it’ll fit, the accents are way too long for the focus block.

That’s okay! We’re gonna fix that.

Take your first accent and sew a partial seam. I backstitch on my partial seams so they remain sturdy for the rest of the block.

When you open it up and lay it back, things look a little better. Take that second accent strip (the blue one) and sew it on like normal since it fits now.

As you can see, the next pink strip will now fit in place. Go ahead and sew it on!

Now we have the last blue accent, and it fits… because you can fold back the piece that we only used a partial seam on. Sew that sucker on!

Now we can fold the first pink accent back into place and low and behold, it fits like a glove.

Finish sewing that partial seam, but don’t sew too far! I veer off into the seam allowance to give it space, but you can just stop and do a little backstitch again to secure it once you’re just past the original partial seam.

Open that block up and iron it flat and you have a nice, complicated looking block :D

I hope that was helpful!

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Not as impressive as lots on here, but like, wait, I've done quilts, I should share.

There are two generous lap quilt/not quite twin sized ones I made for the children's hospital during the pandemic.

I'm a really slow quilter but I had a pandemic anxiety spree of quilting. My regular anxiety doesn't make me quite that effective in finishing projects. Less crying tho.

That first pattern they called Tam's Patch, the book is terrible about sizes, but it is great for effective use of fabric and easy for an amateur machine quilter to quilt. I've done so many versions of it.

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Here is a Star Trek baby quilt I made a few years back.

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my favorite quilt

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nautical + space themed quilt pieces by Sampaguita Quilts ! :)

the link leads to her full gallery on her blog; i recommend having a look at all of her work!

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Inherited Unfinished Projects

Gasp! This one is a fully complete quilt face!

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I had a nice pastel jelly roll and found this cute pattern at MSQC. I picked out the light teal for the pinwheel accent and a soft beige for the border and binding and did some simple straight line quilting on my domestic.

I should do this again. It was fun and fast and looks great.

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After much deliberation I've decided I'm gonna start making quilts and I'm going to make sloppy messy quilts for everyone I love then slowly but surely I'll be making beautiful quilts for everyone I love and I will have a fucking ball along the way and your homes will all be full of quilts.

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My very scrappy throw quilt. This is made from remnants of my past projects and a few fabric pieces my mom gave to me, and the back is flannel. The pattern is based off a YouTube video by Shannon Makes, sewing a house robe based on Bilbo baggins robe from the hobbit films.

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Started a new patchwork project

It's turtle timeeeeeee 🐢🐢🐢

its gonna go on the back of a shirt for my brother (yes, this is a Christmas gift project. Yes, it is currently October.)

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A customer asked me to make a make a memory pillow out of her Dad’s silk ties, so I did. She gave me an approximate size of pillow she wanted, and I think is only about three inches longer, but I did get all the ties on the top of the pillow so I could put a navy cuddletex back on it.

She said that because it’s silk and a decorative pillow, she would rather not have it be removable, so I sewed the batting loose inside.

The ties are quite stiff because I didn’t take them apart to remove the interfacing, so I didn’t need to use quilt batting under them, just a thin layer of muslim to stabilise the bias cut of them.

I think it turned out quite nice.

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Star Trek Deep Space 9 quilt I made a few years back. It’s one of my favorites. #StarTrek #startrekdeepspace9 #quilt #handquilted #tapestry