#quilt block

[angelboycult]

just admiring this fantastic block- damn that is a cat

from 501 quilt blocks treasury published by Murdoch Books (designer unknown)

[leo-fie]

The quilted progress pride pillowcase is finished! Finally used all those fancy decorative stitches my sewing machine has. They are indeed very decorative. First time actually finishing a quilt and being happy with it. Yes, it's a little bubbly and wonky, but I don't care. Because it's a pillowcase, nobody would notice if it were all perfectly neat. The filling is a cobbled together bunch of floof from all the pillows my dog has torn up in the past. Don't worry, she won't get this one.

Based on my own pattern, which is in turn based on the progress pride flag design by Valentino Vecchietti.

[vafibrearts]

Twirly seams?

Twirly seams.

[ahedderick]

Sir, you are NOT helping me organize this quilt! SIR! Cease this cuteness at once!

(This guy does not look like a full grown cat to me. He'll be two in August, but he still seems like a kitten.)

[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.

[carlinstitches]

Last three blocks!!

[7birdsfashion]

Slow work on a quilted project

[ditsyknits]

Preview of some quilted coasters I’ll be selling after American Thanksgiving. All proceeds will go direct to the Massachusetts Bail Fund. DM me if you want dibs!

[raggednorth]

Today was a day of trying new things with sewing.

It was my first time doing EPP with a shape other than a hexagon. I used triangles and the crowns of hexagons.

I made them into a sunflower. Not so new thing was having my coffee while I sew. But, that is a new mug, because...bees!

Onto my next new thing...I appliqued the sunflower onto a block of white on white patterned fabric. I have appliqued only once before, but never an EPP piece. I also used a "new to me" sewing machine for this endeavor. I got my mom's old machine and now I have to learn its little quirks and idiosyncrasies. All, in all, I very much like how this turned out. This block is going into a quilt that my quilt retreat group is making for one of the ladies who was just diagnosed with colon cancer.

[the-cricket-chirps]

Unknown Artist (Made in Hawaii)

Hawaiian Quilt, Lei Mamo Pattern

ca. 1930

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[fossilknits]

TADA

now i just need to decide how to finish this, i.e. what to do for the back and how to quilt and which color to bind with, lol. i love how the block turned out though i'm so happy!! 🍓

[hayden-davis]

new quilt block idea

[leo-fie]

I made a thing! A quilt! It's not even half bad!

A while ago I suggested to make a quilt block out of the stomachion, an ancient puzzle. The idea being that all the same pieces can be arranged in hundreds of different ways. Endless possibilities!

Here's the pattern: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1weC-IQvsRzT-LH1NUlPDYfxV-axT-w/view?usp=sharing

Please tag me if you try it. I'd love to see someone who actually knows what they are doing, make this.

[vafibrearts]

Another one finished! It still needs to be pressed, but there's a lot of really fun detail in this one and I'm super happy with how it's turned out!

[ahedderick]

Quilt, continued

I'll make it a separate post, because crabs are special, but the other non-vertebrate block for the fish quilt is a gauzy jellyfish.

The blue gauze I bought because my then-toddler daughter fell deeply, madly in love with it at the fabric store. I actually made a little blue dress for her with this stuff as an overskirt. Because of the little sparkles on it, it is a nightmare to work with. My sewing machine took one look and then shied nervously like a stressed horse. Even for handstitching it's a trial & tribulation. However, it just screams "jellyfish" to me. So I set aside ALL common sense and put this block together. The fish blocks took about 7 minutes each to sew. This has taken almost two hours SO FAR and is not completed. However.

Sparkles. What else can I say.

I think I have all 70 fish blocks (if I have kept accurate count, nervous chuckle) and two nonfish, which is all I need. I also cut the triangle pieces I will need, because these blocks will be pieced "on point", ie the squares will be diagonal. All is ready, maybe, to lay them all out on a flat surface and start sewing them together.

[aquietvagabond]

Page’s quilt. I did the math myself, but the design is called “Chandelier” and I’m not sure where it’s from. I learned a lot about bias edges, and batiks and why I should have used a lot more starch than I did. But I love it! It’s got a minky backing and I did the binding by machine which was a first for me. Not perfect, but I’ll keep trying.