#handquilted

[quilt-giving]

FUN FACT: I’m terrible at following traditional quilt patterns and designs. It is easier to design my own quilts, that way if there is an Oopsie or mistake I simple call it an artistic deviation. LOL.

Here is one of the first wall hangings I made when learning to quilt in the 1990s.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

@anastasiaoftheironwood handquilting Star Story has begun!

I need to find an alternative to white chalk that doesn't stain fabric. Seeing white chalk on nearly-white fabric is a challenge. I've tried Clover and Fons & Porter, but they stain fabric.

Threads I'm using are Sulky, 12 wt, and the colors are 4057 (yellow/gold), 4034 (black/grey), and 4001 (light brown/cream) They're variegated blendables, but stand out just enough to add visual interest.

As for the quilting, details below:

I'll be using a wood star cutout as a template. I found it at a craft shop, and it's supposed to be a wall decoration. After I get the stars quilted, I'll go over it again with crescents. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a crescent nor have one made (lack of funds), so I'm making one with embroidery rings and cardboard.

Why this instead of straight lines and following seams? Time and fun. I use a small quilting hoop to make circles on Halloween Dream, and the handquilting was fast. When I handquilted around thr blocks and border seams, it slowed considerably. Plus, the circles were fun. I'm sticking with templates for this, including the borders, because it is so much fun and faster. My client will get their quilt before the end of the summer. Ideally, within six weeks.

To help speed things along, I'm using a longer stitch as well. About a quarter inch. Tiny stitches are my preference for making parts of a quilt pop, like outlining butterflies other parts of a print. The effect is dramatic and very pleasing...bit it takes sooooo much time. I intend to avoid that here.

I'll be working on Star Story in the afternoon, when my sewing room gets too hot. Mornings will be for seeing, which means more project overlap. Monday-Thursday, from 6AM to 10AM, I'm sewing, take a lengthy lunchbreak, noon-4PM handquilting. I'm up at around 5AM, though that may soon be at 4AM because I love mornings, and go to bed at around 9PM now that we have an a/c unit in the bedroom.

When the handquilting is finished, I'll make a new post featuring it. This will be thr most beautiful quilt I have made yet.

[quill-ting]

Yeah OK so I was beginning to feel disappointed and underwhelmed with the individual blocks, but seeing them laid out helps. Also this is before the three borders... this thing is going to be huge! Truly a vast amount of quilt.

Tomorrow I need to start to sew all of these together but for tonight, I'm just going to bask in getting this far.

[ditsyknits]

I finished it! I took the green quilt out on a little adventure today before it goes off to it’s new home tomorrow!

I’m sooo happy with the way this came out. I’m really glad I took the time to start over with the quilting. I think the end product shines 🧡💚

[forestgreenlesbian]

finished my trek quilted wallhanging🖖

[ofmiceandwomen]

The portrait of the prince, taken and edited by @thistlesandstories (as well as the other pictures of me)

I had a great time at the local convention. I’m happy to announce that me and @thistlesandstories won the cosplay contest as the absolute winner, we earned awesome rewards and most importantly we really had fun and I am very grateful to @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown for helping us coming up with the presentation ideas an turned it into an entertaining spectacle.

This is our team. We are proud of ourselves

Both of the costumes are original designs made by us. We used multiple artworks and historical clothing references. I wrote more on it here

Some more pictures:

Bonus: comparison to the portrait by spectacular artist @jennydolfen

[onemillennialquilter]

I've been meaning to finish the second table/desk runner, and finally finished sandwiching, basting, and marking. Only took me listening to all of Six live and most of the first saga of Epic the musical. Now only quilting and binding left!

[temporary-dysphoria]

[tj-crochets]

Another crafting update: I'm a third of the way done hand quilting that green baby quilt from forever ago! I'm thinking handquilting is not my thing lol

[sleepycatmama]

I really wish my hand quilting wasn't so slow.

[carmellateresa]

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[quilt-giving]

Repost of the Stargate Universe quilt I made last year.

I finished handquilting the Stargate Universe quilt.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Neither of my machines are large enough for the Cutie quilting frame. The diagram on Grace Company's website was unclear of where they measured the machine, but it turns out both my machines are nearly two inches too short for the lowest setting. I need at least 8.5 inches of workspace, also know as the throat.

I won't be able to handquilt for the next several months. My hands and wrists are a wreck and need time to heal. This is why everything I make will need to be handquilted until probably next spring or summer. It's why I need the frame, otherwise finished items will need to be small enough to fit in my machine without straining myself. I can manage about 30 inches square max, which is why the largest items I'm making are table runners and wallhangings. Large quilt tops are an option, but finishing the quilt won't happen unless I hire someone else, and I don't want to do that.

Grace Company made a machine specifically for the frame. It's called Little Rebel, and I hope to be able to afford it next winter. It's $3k, which is waaaaay outta my budget. There's a second machine, a Jenome, that's $1200. I have bills, my debt, and smaller things I need, like a printer, an XBox for my husband, and some inexpensive exercise equipment (my asthma cannot handle summer air and my body cannot tolerate summer heat or sunshine), just to name a few things. All money I receive goes to my goals and bills, not machines.

If you fancy purchasing a machine, I have my Throne list here. When I have either machine and get practice in, commission prices for quilts wheelchair/baby size and up may cost less than half the original prices I had them up. Handquilting will be reserved for love and personal pieces.

I will happily give a quilt I finish on the frame to whomever buys one of these machines for me. There are half a dozen quilt tops in my standing wardrobe, all waiting to be completed quilts. More tops will be made, which are more options to choose from.

I'll take my frame apart this weekend, once we figure out a place I can store it in the house. Until I get a machine that works with it, this will remain stored away and no larger quilts will be made except as just listed quilt tops.

Thank you.

My work below, for the interested:

[lsbknittingtheology]

My latest passion is making hand quilted hearts for people.

[quill-ting]

In February 2022 I was preparing for several months in an inpatient ward for treatment of an eating disorder. To give myself a distraction while I was in there, I pieced and prepared a quilt for handquilting. It was one of the first quilts I ever made, and I learned a lot during the process. All the prints I chose were food themed, because I thought (and stand by) the fact that it was funny.

The plan was to use a baptist fan pattern across the entire quilt. I made a mistake with the direction of the curves but rescued it as a border.

I left hospital unexpectedly alive, and with the quilt far from finished. And then it spent a year and a half in a cupboard. The fine quilting it required was so painful and damaging to my hands that the idea of working on it again made me sew literally anything else.

A few weeks ago, packing up my quilting things for an interstate move, I pulled it out again and wondered how I'd ever get it finished. And so I changed my plans.

I used big stitch quilting to work a different design while trying to highlight what I'd done. It was a reminder that I need to learn to find other ways of doing things. I am tired of harming my body to achieve things I feel I should want.

The quilt looks nothing like I thought it would. My body, my life and my future look nothing like I thought it would. And while my recovery is far from finished, I lived to see this quilt completed. And I am fucking proud of that.

[kolibri-herz]

I made my first coaster! Completely sewn and quilted without a machine. Thanks to all the people on here encouraging me to pursue this hobby. Tbh my favorite part was quilting the running stitch, it's really soothing. Makes me wanna handquilt a blanket ^^"