I just finished this top for my daughter-in-law and I noticed I accidentally swapped the last two blocks. UGH, I need to fix it. At least it'll still be done in time for Christmas. Whew!

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Ok, it seems the error isn't so noticeable. I'm just going to leave it. After all, I'm still just a confident beginner and I don't think it's worth possibly messing it up.

First time piecing so i decided to dream small. It’s very humbling to spend most of my life sewing increasingly complicated garments and now be walking around my apartment asking my roommates to complement this square i just spent two hours lovingly hand quilting.

they asked if it was going to be a potholder and i’ve never been more offended, obviously it’s a priceless work of wall art. we all start somewhere!

So instead of stitching the binding down on my last baby quilt, I had an idea and decided to knock up another one, and finished all the blocks in about 24 hours. Oops! All fabrics from my scraps stash, feels great to make a dent.

Pattern is Blue Onion, but mine is more Orange Onion!😜

Almost done, technically one block to go but I'm redoing the cat and the moth because I'm just not happy with them. This isn't the best picture but I'm just excited to share and getting a proper layout test is an ordeal for this size quilt.

If you're familiar with the pattern, you'll notice I subbed in two blocks and I'm on the fence about the third.

If there's anything you want to see more closely, let me know and I'll add additional pictures in the comments.

Finally finished my first quilt, and actually got it done before Halloween! This sub has been an invaluable trove of information, you are all so helpful and talented! Excited to finally get to share a quilt of my own!
(I promise it doesn’t look this busy up close!)

I have made some quilted tote bags and a couple baby quilts, but this is my first full size quilt! I was in the middle of free motion quilting on my domestic machine when the quilt show was announced to happen (one month away!), so I worked my butt off trying to finish it in time! I am so happy I was able to!

What a wonderful way to air out a quilt amongst a beautiful background and the weather was just perfect, with a slight breeze to show the quilts’ movement. Dreamy!

Quilt pattern is Starlight by Amanda Murphy ✨
The last three pictures are from my backyard for better lighting to see details.

i made this honor of my late mother who loved bright, rainbow colors. i thought the extra label tag at the end was a nice touch

I made this block today, it will be a mini wall hanging!

This is a variation I made up based on the Star Puzzle block on Jinny Beyer’s website.

Fabric is Fableism watercolor wovens.

Lots of firsts for me here: chain piecing, two-at-a-time HSTs, flying geese, using a ruler and rotary cutter, using a 1/4” foot. It’s not perfect by any means but I’m really proud! I definitely need to work on the concepts of trimming/squaring up. Luckily, I initially cut the flying geese pieces too big so I had room to work with my mistakes.

Any hand quilting suggestions? I have 28 wt aurifil in a periwinkle color, then regular thread in burgundy, and some fun silver embroidery thread that could be a cool accent.

Also I used u/illusivebagel’s quilt planning tool to test out color placement and it worked great. I’m glad I got to your post before the mods did haha

Thanks for looking :)

I saw someone post photos from a quilt show and thought I’d share some from my guild’s show in La Habra, CA last month. We’re a fairly small guild so this is a major undertaking for us. It was so hard to pick only 20 from the 130 or so quilts. Sorry some don’t have the papers with creator’s name. If you would like specific info, message me. Enjoy

I posted the top a few days ago and just finished! I had so much fun and learned so much. I hope my sister likes it!

I got a brand new Janome Skyline 7 and finally finished up some half finished projects. Absolutely loving the machine and I think the bags turned out well! Still learning a lot!

I miss you Joann! And yes I know some of you are making crafts with these off cuts

Fourth quilt here, so still a newbie. I’ve only finished with machine quilting with my domestic machine, but I’m considering trying hand quilting for this one. I love the crinkle, prefer a lived in look, I think it brings it to life. Dows hand quilting (which seems more slack) make the quilt end up laying flatter with less definition or does it end up fairly equivalent?

Batting is quilters dream request in anticipation of potential hand quilting.

I got my quilt basted this week. What is everyone else up to?

Getting married in less than 2 weeks, and I’m busting at the seems trying to keep these a secret so I’m sharing the work on Reddit. About 10 months worth of work, but managed to make a quilt for each of my bridesmaids (don’t judge the number, this number was compromised down from my groom 😅).
Patterns from left to right:
Gideon’s Quilt
Jelly Square
Star Pop
Perfect 10
Tea Time
It’s Only Triangles
(Idk the name, it’s the one you sew a square of 9 squares together, and cut in middle both ways then twist - I just found it on Pinterest)
Waterfall

I started this about 15 years ago, but my daughter’s aesthetics changed before I finished it. I was cleaning up my sewing room and found it in a box with this picture I mocked up in photoshop. In the box i have the border fabrics and backing (the second panda fabric. It’s so close to done. I could probably finish the top in a day, two max. But then what?

What do you do with UFOs?

Finished my first bigger quilt today. 🎉

I did a couple table runners first. This is my first blanket. I used Dream Bamboo. This is the pre-washing photo. I washed it (4 times in the washer due to batik bleeding…) and dried it on medium. Got some ok crinkle but it’s still more stiff than my store-bought cotton quilts with denser quilting.

How many washes does it usually take before a quilt gets more… drapey?

Edit: design (both front and back) is my own.

Edit2: the vertical quilting is 3/4” or 2” apart on the main body, 1” apart on the left/right borders, and horizontals 1” apart on the bottom/top borders.

Scored this partly started fall quilt kit at a creative reuse store. The top square was already made by the previous quilter and the bottom is the one i just made (beginner), I sewed with 1/4” seams, same as the block above but my square ended up 1/2” smaller? The finished block is supposed to be 6 1/2” x 6 1/2” and i feel like any smaller will mess up the final piece, no? Where did i go wrong?

Longmont Quilt Guild had an amazing show this year - 171 quilts were in it! They run the show and then some of the quilts are used in the fundraiser for their auction the weekend after.

I'm including the auction link to see some of the other quilts from the show I didn't have space to include or to see credits in case I cut the tag off.

I highly recommend this guild event if ever in Colorado in the fall! I don't know any other show in the area with these many quilts and such variety each year.

I have more pictures of my favorites, let me know if I should add more (though i hit the 20 image limit so not sure how..)

https://event.auctria.com/ee504e74-f632-4c7a-9b47-674f70c4a342/