#Applique

[lackadaisycal-art]

Hand-made hot water bottle cover of my favourite book, because sometimes you need something tactile to work on

[quilt-giving]

I finished the quilt I’m gifting to my daughter. She is having her first baby., I have not washed this yet. It still has chaulk lines. I am pleased how this turned out.

[nrobins]

making 1/12 of a quilt each month, here are January-April

[rthwrms]

heres the gargoyle that i made in my vlog <3

[tricia868]

I was commissioned to make an art quilt inspired by a photo of the HMS Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's antarctic exploration vessel.

Here are my reference photo (taken by Frank Hurley on August 27, 1915) and some process pictures!

I printed a scale copy of the image, then used it to create an applique pattern and to trace the rigging onto water soluble fabric so I could free motion quilt over all the lines. (FMQ is essentially freehand sketching with your sewing machine by manually moving the quilt under your needle in whatever patterns you want to create with thread.)

[kiarareagan]

A quilt for Max and I when we moved in together, 2023

It has plants and animals and our zodiac signs. This is a coverlet, meaning it has no batting in the center. The top and the backing are quilted together and it is cool enough to keep on our bed when the other blankets get put away for the summer.

[sweetlyfez]

As I promised @elodieunderglass (ty for the reminder), pictures of my finished (ish) crazy quilted notebook covers.

If you haven't previously heard of crazy quilting, it was a HUGE craze among housewives in the late 19th century, which revolved around patchworking and appliqueing together irregularly shaped fabric scraps and then embellishing the shit out of them.

I embarked on this project because after filing away the idea of crazy quilts from a coffee table book my spouse picked up in a charity shop a year or so ago, I saw a couple of people on youtube sharing their work; and because I needed covers for my next junk journal.

I cleaved pretty close to the base principles of the style - using precious scraps, making as much of them as possible, and creating a canvas for lots of embroidered embellishment. These two 5x7ish pieces barely used up any volume of my accumulated scraps so there will be more crazy quilting in my future, once I think of ways to make use of it.

I'm very pleased with how the compositions came together, and it was lots of fun picking the embroidery thread colours to speak to all the different patches. Actually the whole things was stupid fun and I worked on barely any other projects or, in fact, chores while Iw as working on it. Next time I will probably match the weight of my fabrics more closely (mostly bc the velvets have made things lumpier than I'd have liked), and I'll prewash the old bits retrieved from my nan's sewing box bc when I rinsed the embroidery pen out from the wild rose piece the pink bled and I was quite lucky it was mostly synthetic patches around it.

Under the cut for an inventory of scraps used (all out of stash)

"love" embroidery, from a magazine kit released ca 2018/19

orange & pink flower print, velvets, floral corduroy, ribbon, and pink twill all from my Nan's sewing box

Pink silk leftover from my wedding dress, flower print and the translucent silk the spider is mounted on from a scrap bag - all from Beckford silks (they don't carry the scrap bags on their website but they're well worth a visit in person if you're in the neighbourhood)

The other printed silk was a tunic of mine which stood up poorly to wear

Blotchy yellow and rust silk from a natural printing demo

Green corduroy and black flower print viscose from Will's sewing projects

Blue and fuchsia check from my old pjs

planets print quilting cotton bought for a hat band from the remnants bin of the friendly local fabric shop

green leaf ribbon leftover from an Audrey ii costume

[hesterstarling]

And it is done. The ugly fabric challenge is complete!

[dreammybeat]

Still Life. Quilt made by Chen Jing.

[amingledyarn]

Wolf, a crochet applique pattern designed by Kerri Brown on Ravelry. Find the free pattern and video tutorial here!

[quilt-giving]

Rise and shine, Earthlings! While I'm off to tackle the daily grind, I couldn't resist brightening your day with some out-of-this-world SCIFI quilts. Here's to thriving and prospering amidst the cosmic chaos of our time!" FYI, I made these!!

[abigailspinach]

1st Place: Fugue 52″ x 52″ By Lucy Engels Edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom Individual Member @_lucyengels

2nd Place: Oasis 36″ x 41″ By Cassandra Beaver Urbana, Ohio, United States Individual Member @Cassandra.beaver

3rd Place: All That Follows 55″ x 55″ By Sara Brown Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Individual Member @sarabquilts

[arthistoryanimalia]

A fun find for #TextileTuesday: so many cool animal friends in one work! 😍

Martha Mood (USA, 1908-1972)

First Families of Texas, 1962

Appliqué with beads

67 1/4 x 33in (170.8 x 83.8cm)

McNay Art Museum 1982.51

[rthwrms]

IF U FEEL LIKE A DEMON IN THE WORLD

[allegorechoquilts]

An appliqué heavy quilt in my MILS house :)

[kiarareagan]

Big Titties, 2023, 76x69in, quilt made from secondhand fabrics