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"“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.” - Cat Valente, Space Opera

Quilt wall hanging tribute to one of my favorite books. Mostly traditionally pieced with a bit of applique.

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A death quilt made by Elizabeth Dunn for herself in 1890. Screen shot taken from a PBS special on Georgia quilting history. Can't find any photos of it online or any other info. The documentary states that she passed away not long after completing it.

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The quilt is done and shipped!

I like it all laid out flat, but I think it is even better crumpled into organic shapes or draped around the human body. The contrast between the rigidity of the squares and the soft shapes of the textile is very pleasing.

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Quilt #2 of 2024 is done! No real pattern, just alternating hourglass blocks and solids. (It was supposed to be a stash buster, but I swear I have more fabric than when I started! 🤣)

Bonus picture of my neighbor's outdoor cat, Sonny. (His sister Cher is the indoor cat).

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For potential art trade reasons, I took a photo of some of my quilts folded up on a chair and I love how it turned out!

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that time i learned that the video for beyonce + jay-z’s apeshit is based off of faith ringgold’s ‘dancing at the louvre’—which makes ben shapiro’s freak out over the video that much funnier—if he was really into art and art history or even knew the slightest thing abt it—he’d at least get the reference but who needs to know things when u got racism on ur side amiright???

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Another one of my EPP quilted pieces I finished recently. This was originally going to be a larger piece in combination with the other one I did (see here) as a large panel, but I decided they would work better as independent projects.

This was my first foray into non-hexagonal paper piecing as well as designing my own EPP patterns and I've certainly learned a lot. Very tricky to get the pieces to work sometimes, but easy enough to design and fun to work on. I'd love to pattern out a full sized quilt using this style, but I imagine it would be much more difficult to complete. We'll see!

Thanks for looking :)

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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.

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im the king of the world and can achieve anything i set my mind to (blobbily approximating the boston metropolitan area in fabric)

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Spotlight: Faith Ringgold

92-year-old Faith Ringgold is arguably one of the most consequential African American artists of her generation, well-known for her paintings, mixed-media sculpture, performance work, and especially for her narrative quilts. A year ago, February 17, 2022, the New Museum in New York opened the retrospective exhibition “Faith Ringgold: American People,” the most comprehensive survey to date of the work of Faith Ringgold, whose groundbreaking art and political activism span more than sixty years.

These images are from the catalog of that exhibition, also titled Faith Ringgold: American People, edited by Massimiliano Gioni and Gary Carrion-Murayari and published in New York by Phaidon Press in 2022. The catalog features 11 essays by prominent writers and an interview with the artist, and covers work from all periods of Ringgold’s career, including her early civil rights-era figurative paintings, her graphic political protest posters, and her signature experimental story quilts.

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The Flag is Bleeding #2: The American Collection #6, 1997. Acrylic on canvas with painted and pieced fabric. 76 x 79.5 in.

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Haven’t been able to draw, so all my creative energy has been going into sewing instead

Here’s a decorative EPP piece I worked on last month for a family member.

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Currently obsessed with this late 1800s Victorian silk-and-velvet quilt my mother brought out of storage, which I was scandalized to have never seen before. The colors are startlingly vivid, and the effect is strangely modern. It was likely the work of my second great grandmother, who lived in Eastern Iowa in the last quarter of the 19th century. Not sure if anyone will see this, given that I haven’t been active in quilting discussions, but I’d welcome any info on quilts of this type and period.

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Quilt, 1930s.

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Crazy quilt

Made by: Celestine Bacheller (American (Wyoma, MA), 1839-about 1922)

American 1875-1900

Object Place: Wyoma, Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

Silk plain weave, velvet, and satin, pieced and embroidered

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the quilt top ive been working on! pic of the final quilt top & then a bunch of in progress pictures & my cats. it still needs to be trimmed & quilted but ill wait a bit for that. pattern is garden lattice quilt by briarhilldesigns

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"Naranya, laimun, azzaytuna". Details.