#Quilting

[oliviawhen]

My work gave us a couple days to work on crafts we don't usually do, so I spent some time trying to quilt! I've seen people quilting pre-printed panels, so made a design and got it printed to try with. (Pretty beginner friendly!) Then pieced together a smaller one (math hard). And finally messed around with some felt scraps. It was fun, but so hard not to engage the perfectionist part of my brain that wants to start over constantly.

[ashlgcostumes]

English paper piecing is unhinged. Like this process should not work?? Can’t explain why it seems to my brain like this is some kind of witchcraft whereby at the beginning you have fabric and at the end you have fabric but somewhere in the middle you have a bloody pop up book

[acornminiatureslog]

More quilting progress! Might actually get this done before February.

[raspberrysweettea13]

Over the Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

[flintandpyrite]

My Kaffe Fassett lap quilt had developed some holes and another torn seam so I did some repairs today! Very fun.

[bluedesignwall]

I finished it just in time for afternoon tea. This quilt will be wrapping for a little old lady who really feels the cold. It will certainly do the job. I wanted to hand quilt it but ran out of time. I ended up quilting in the ditch. It could have done with more quilting possibly but it should be fine. Happy to finish it in time for mums birthday tomorrow. I had better get cracking. The housework has been mounting up while I was quilting.

[tru-makes-quilts]

The top is complete! ☀️⛰️

[brilokuloj]

My first quilt and it suuucks (it's a poncho for my wife) (my wife likes it and that's all that matters)

[thepersonalhermit]

Floor layout complete, now it's time to sew together all of these blocks! I was very grateful that Mr Bates decided to be helpful and sleep on his bed instead of trying to walk all over my floor layout like he usually does.

The blocks are half square triangles made out of the leader/ender crumb blocks made out of my black/white/gray crumbs. I had over 50 crumb blocks already made but did have to make a few extra to get enough for this. The squares were 4.5" that I paired with a square of regular fabric and cut on the diagonal. So they aren't exactly a normal size, but since they all started the same size it doesn't really matter what size they end up.

This is a baby quilt for a baby whose parents requested "gray and green and gender neutral" so hopefully this works well. I added the red/orange/yellow obviously but just a single zigzag of each for a little bit of contrast and variety.

[anxiousangerball]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[onbearfeet]

A conversation at a wedding, beside the gifts table. There is a large box wrapped in violently purple paper sitting beside the table.

Guest: That's a big box. Wonder what's in it.

Me: A custom handmade quilt on an oak quilt rack.

Guest: Really?

Me: Yup. Wanna see?

Guest: Sure.

Me: *shows pics on my phone*

Guest: Wow. You made that?

Me: Yep. Finished it last night.

Guest: That's amazing. Very purple.

Me: Yeah, (bride) asked for that.

Guest: Oh, she knows about it?

Me: I worked with her on the design. But she hasn't seen the finished quilt yet. It's a surprise.

Guest: So you take commissions? Could you make one in, say, two weeks?

Me: That depends. Do you have ten thousand dollars?

Guest: What.

Me: Materials, labor, overtime to make that deadline--yeah, it would start at 10K. Might be higher if you wanted expensive materials or some really fancy technique.

Guest: That's a lot of money!

Me: It is.

Guest: Did you charge (bride) that much?

Me: No. Hers is a gift.

Guest: A ten thousand dollar gift?

Me: Well, to the extent that I am part of a quilting tradition at all, the tradition I'm part of is that quilts can ONLY be given as gifts. Anyone who could casually afford to pay for the amount of work involved in a quilt is probably not someone to be trusted with art.

Guest: Art?

Me: ART.

Guest: ...

Me: I also made her a nice satin dressing gown, which she wore for hair and makeup earlier.

Guest: Is that art, too?

Me: I mean, it's got pockets.

[cassiesinsanity]

I seriously suck at randomly assembling squares. but this is as good as it gets (also realized halfway through assembly that I had accidentally cut a few squares 1/2" too big. Such a bitch to correct.)

Wedding quilt is coming along swimmingly despite my doubts about maroon and navy.

FYI I love everything about chain stitching EXCEPT when you realize you ran out of bobbin thread four pairs back.

[samimarkart]

ginkgo leaf wall hanging quilt commission 🌿

cotton fabrics with hand carved block prints, quilted and sewn with the free motion foot on my machine

[bluedesignwall]

This is the quilt that never ends. It just goes on and on my friends. I was sewing the binding on to this quilt singing that song (in my head, my singing is better using inside voice). I was so pleased to be heading off to bed once I got the binding sewn on.

[parachim]

My mom made a snuilt (snail quilt) for my partner