#what to quilt next

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Which quilt should I work on next? I went to some new (to me) quilt shops and now I have a few options

1. Finally quilt the pink and green watercolor floral chevron quilt top (in my defense, I only got the backing fabric today)

2. Finally quilt the rainbow triangle quilt (I have no defense I’ve had the backing fabric for a while lol)

3. Make a purple bee layer cake quilt

4. Make a SUPER COLORFUL rainbow batik jelly roll quilt and finally use up the backing fabric I originally bought for the rainbow triangle quilt and then my grandma was like “no you can’t use it for that”

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

you know you're going wrong when your hobby starts requiring you to do division

[viciousewe]

I made this dress! Sewn! Entirely by hand and then took it to the renn faire in august! And then banished to a corner because I fucked up the cuff size and it was too small to do buttons the regular way! But then I figured out I could do a loop instead of a buttonhole and it would work and it did! Hooray!!! I can start a new sewing project!!!! Too bad my only pics of it are all obscured by my mildly insane jewelry and accessories.

[wickedhawtwexler]

people who think money can't buy happiness have clearly never purchased crafting supplies

[skin-slave]

Yaz's first Pride!!!!

Yes, Sammy got her that shirt.

[completely-zoned-out]

So it's mother's day and instead of making my mum a "normal" card, I decided that I would make her a card congratulating her for *finally* finishing the quilt she started 18 years ago (life got in the way lol). Not gonna lie, I'm kinda proud of how it turned out

^^ the card vs the quilt

I love making silly little cards. I even included a joke about giving her a "paper pieced quilt" because I'm pretty sure that's a real thing (I realise I'm not as funny as I think I am)

[alliluyevas]

Orderville—former home of a 19th century Mormon compound, current home of a whole lot of antique books

[bigfishthemusical]

my vision.

[tj-crochets]

The rainbow sudoku baby quilt top is done!

This one is named that because it’s nine fabrics and I used a completed sudoku to determine how to arrange the squares

[onyourstageleft]

don't have a photo to post bc I forgot to take one before I put my quilting box away for the night BUT after almost a month of making very minimal progress I am once again working on the d20 baby quilt! my friend found out this week that baby viper is gonna be a boy which gives me the next color of fabric I need to buy for the outside of the quilt (background will be a light grey), not that I'm even close to there yet, but it has given me the inspiration to work on it again

as a reminder this is the design I'm working on, it will all be hand-stitched paper pieced hexagons! (with handmade bais/applique tape for the dividing lines on the d20) and I have until October to finish it, which is great because I'm currently 41 hexagons in - out of 351

[lazyfox411]

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[wickedhawtwexler]

not to brag but i'm getting soooo much done today despite being off my adhd meds 💅

[depresseddepot]

I'm making a quilt rn for functional purposes rather than fandom purposes but I might fuck around and make another alien isolation quilt lmao

[longingforacultparty]

maybe once ive finished cleaning my apartment ill start trying to sew again

[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

[asteralien]

true to form i drastically underestimated how much fabric i need for my ace jon quilt so now i just have to sit here clawing at the walls until joann ships my extra yardage bc the store in town didn’t have enough. being a stupid bitch who is also a cheapskate is such a bad combo if you’re going to be a quilter but here i am making it work, just a lot slower than most and with more shipping costs