#handmade quilt

[the-cricket-chirps]

Rebecca Davis (American)

Star of Lemoyne Quilt

ca. 1846

[yugimoto]

I can finally post the quilt I made my boyfriend for christmas! it’s hard to tell but it’s very big!

[staycoolbutstillcare]

Well here she is ladies and gentlemen 🪡

[aran-made]

Made a bunch of wall quilts available here.

[raggednorth]

One down, 58 more to go!

[big-green-wall]

finished piecing my first quilt and dropped it off to be quilted today!

the act of creating this has been so rewarding. i’ve learned a lot, and i treasure every moment of hand sewing squares with my mum while listening to a spooky podcast.

overall, i’m very proud with how the top turned out and i cannot wait to see it done and to be able to use it!

[winteringart]

Quilt #7!

IMAGE ID: A photograph of a finished quilt composed of naturally dyed fabrics. The quilting is red thread and the blocks are mostly half log cabins, with some random rectangles thrown in there. It’s mostly yellow and blue. END ID.

[spechblend]

I sewed a coat! Everything is made from scratch, sewed from a pattern. The motif on the back is designed and hand sewed by me, and reads “Bass Fiend.” (Which is a nod to my favorite song, Dope Fiend by Acid Bath, and I’m a bassist.)

I’m trying to put together a well lasting wardrobe so I don’t have to rely on corporations for my clothes. I have my patch pants, a vest, a shirt (from scratch as well), and this coat. I’m hoping to knit a sweater and a sweater vest next.

(Below are the alterations to the pattern as well as the logo design stages)

[mirrorbird]

You ever see a design so cool, hiding innocuously in something you love so much, that you take up a new hobby about it? Process pics under the cut!

This was a labor of love, from recreating the above page as a regularized vector diagram, to isolating out, fiddling with, and sizing all the shapes for both the Cricut and the embroidery machine:

creating a truckton of stencils and marking guides:

and TRIANGLES. so many triangles

I lost count of all the bits and bobs (btw Belos part of your sigil looks like a chicken wing)

hovering like a helicopter over the machine to get each piece laid out just right

and then picking out a backing fabric as offensive to crusty old pilgrim men as possible.

To whatever artist, designer, or animator went off on this single page that's in a single episode for seconds, and isn't even the side we're paying attention to: I see you. And thanks. <3

[pearlypeanut]

Purple crochet and fabric quilt

[littlealienproducts]

Quilt made from Liberty fabric 'Annabella' by PoppyandHonesty

[owenwilsonsbestfriend]

Most recent completed quilt! This log cabin is about halfway between a twin and a queen sized quilt.

[aquietvagabond]

This Quilt has been a struggle. I bought most of the fabric four years ago, when I didn’t know what a 1/4 in seam was, and getting any corner to match was a goddamn nightmare. I almost threw everything out, but I ripped all of the seams and was left with so fucking many 2.5 in squares that weren’t cut very well, and piecing this fucker back together was also a goddamn nightmare. I made two trips to the Quilt shop for more fabric, changed patterns at least three times. And spent a lot of time rearranging the order of the blocks before I settled on this scrappy -and might I say adorable - Halloween quilt.

I threw a couple of borders on it to try and use as much of my Halloween scraps as possible, and I sewed on the binding very sloppily. I just wanted to get it finished before Halloween, and despite this post date, I did! The ladies at the quilt shop let me help with the quilting, and I felt like a little kid helping mom in the kitchen.

Because of the nature of the beast (the bad cutting, the sloppy piecing, and my overall haste to finish) there are a few tucks around the borders. Did you know you’re supposed to measure the borders, not just sew on the strips and cut where it ends? Measuring keeps it Square. Slapping borders on gives you tucks. I’m still learning so much, but I’m having a good time.

[staycoolbutstillcare]

All done ☺️🪡

[lambertcottage]

Rest. 🤍

[oldfarmhouse]

“Every quilt that I come across, I think about the person who made it and [their] life,” “I think that the history is important—and that [collectors] have something that’s one of a kind, not mass-produced.”

Originality is everything.

//the cottage journal.com