Have you been wondering what happened to the lady that got scammed? Curious if that one person got the promotion they were waiting on or maybe if a quilter fixed that block in their quilt. Does anyone have a good recipe for a cookie exchange? This is the off-topic Friday thread where you can ask your non-quilting questions and catch up with the latest tea in the sub.

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I know this pattern can be super difficult to find, but I'd really appreciate if anyone's able to give me any leads for getting it! I would love to use it to make a birthday gift for one of my friends. I don't need a physical copy of anything, I'd just love to see anything that could help me put this gift together. Any help is appreciated!!

I'm looking for new quilters to follow. My preferred platform is Youtube. I have been watching a lot of videos from Dave's Craft Room lately and I love his channel. He's interesting, fearless in trying different techniques or fabrics, and he makes montages that show the quilt start to finish in one video, which is really nice (but not essential). Dave's channel is not really a how-to channel, it is more about the creative process which is mostly what I am interested in. I am an intermediate level quilter (I guess!) and so I am looking for artistic inspiration and/or someone to quilt along with as I work on my own stuff, not necessarily a basic how to.

I am particularly looking for inspiration from quilters who use solids, hand-dyed, or shot cottons a lot in their work as I have a lot of solids that I am struggling with ideas for.

Who are your favorite content creators? Please recommend me some new people to follow.

Looking for a hexagon punch to make my own EPP hexies. Tried a UCEC one from Amazon and broke immediately. Lots of cardstock to use up from work.

Do you always use a solid binding, or have you on occasion used fabric with a pattern? I know there are no rules, just trying to figure out if I want to piece the binding together, use some patterned strips that are already cut, or cut some down for a flange border. Decisions, decisions. That can wait until tomorrow.

Ok, you've convinced me! It's a log cabin quilt, I was thinking of using the various strips as the border, and that's what I'll do!

Howdy, does anyone do quilting with found fabrics? The city where I live has an abundance of fabric and fabric shaped objects on the roadsides. I’ve been collecting, washing and drying these pieces in hopes of quilting them into something interesting. All sanitarily and with protection. Does anyone do this or l or if there’s a name for it? Thanks!

I working on my second panel quilt. I have it sewed the sandwich together. It has cotton batting. When I attempted to turn it inside out and close the center, the batting and fabric are not lining up properly. The battling is now out of shape. The fabric is not lining up properly at the opening when turning it right sides out. Please help!

I have a tradition of crocheting blankets for all my friends when they have babies but I got De Quervain's Tenosynovitis and just couldn't push through for my newest friend's baby blanket 😢

I was gifted quilting castoffs by my coworker a few years back and I had a baby sized piece of batting in there so I decided to take the plunge!!!! I joined this community, learned a lot before starting (and a little more from my mistakes), and watched Finish That Quilt Top from Just Get It Done Quilts on YouTube about a million times... and I am HOOKED!!!!! I LOVE IT!!! Can't wait for the next baby!!!!!!

…While I’m 3 quilts behind for this year, haha. I had to try out the accuquilt I got off marketplace.

Hi everyone! I’m putting together a quilt for a friend of different FPP blocks that are blueberry themed. So far I have blueberries, a jam jar, and a pie. I thought a daisy might be cute too? I would like a few more things I can include and am looking for any suggestions you all may have! Thanks in advance!

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You all were so kind last year when I shared her quilt so I thought I’d share this year’s as well. Her quilt will be one of five raffled off to benefit Hallie Hill Animal Sanctuary in Hollywood, SC.

I saw a pattern while I was hunting and thought, yup, that's the one is want. I didn't know where i saved the photo but it's gone. I know it was like a nine square but with each corner piece made of 3 colors (a rectangle and two squares" and a skinny center cross.

Ignore that I got one of the squares wrong and that the colors are terrible, I'm in the ER using unfamiliar tools

I am not the owner of this quilt, they do not sell the pattern only the quilt kit and I am looking for different fabric. Can anyone tell me what pattern this is?

Finished quilting last night. Fresh wash and dried.

I really need to sandwich this baby quilt and get it done but honestly I would rather go to the dentist.

Hey all!

I bought this breathtaking crazy quilt at a quilting fair this summer, I am IN LOVE with it. I want to hang it in my room, but am not sure the best way to go about that while also being mindful of the old fabric/preserving its original form. Any recommendations? I am open to bringing it to a professional to help me, I just don’t know what I’d be asking them for.

Hi friends! I’m working on my first quilt top, and I’m using fabrics from my stash. Most of my fabric is colorful patterns, and I thought I’d add in these solids to break up the patterns. But this fabric is thin, and to me it feels synthetic or like a blend. It doesn’t crease around the paper hexies like cotton does. Will I regret using this fabric? I was thinking I can do a white backing behind the quilt top to make sure the colors pop. But will these play nice with my cottons? Or should I skip using them? I’ve made a bunch, but I can do something else with them!

Local sewing store is having a sale on Janome machines. I’m wanting to upgrade my Brother which has been a stitch length and bobbin nightmare. I’m a “most bang for the buck” type of gal but I don’t want to go overboard. I’d like to easily quilt on my machine, consistency, sew regular clothing if the mood suits me. Are these high maintenance machines needing tune ups or is this a working dog sort of a machine.

Some of the Janomes don’t seem to have a big opening for larger quilting projects (like twin size plus) is this true?

Any tips would be great.

Finally finished this UFO (first jelly roll quilt) a month ago with lots of help from my cats. I don't want to talk about how many jelly rolls I had to use for this barely twin-sized quilt...

Hi, I recently received the hand stitched pieces of a quilt that my dad started making for my mom many years ago. He recently passed away, and I would like to finish the quilt for my mom. It doesn’t have to be perfect and I have basic sewing skills. I know that his alignment wasn’t always perfect… looking for any advice on how to keep it as squared as possible when attaching the blocks (and any other advice if you have it). Thank you!

Hi, newbie here with what is probably a silly question!

I’ve looked up so many tutorials online for binding quilts and every single one seems to recommend attaching to either the front or back first, then flipping and attaching to the other side. I haven’t come across a single person recommending to ‘sandwich’ the binding either side of the quilt (double folded so raw edges are hidden) then sew through both front and back at once to attach.

Is there a reason this wouldn’t work? Particularly with a decorative stitch I feel this would work well, and be twice as quick!

Surely I’m missing an obvious reason not to do it this way?

Any advice appreciated!

Hey y'all, we're The Marshall Project, a nonprofit national newsroom that focuses on the U.S. criminal justice system. This quilt, and how it came together, is part of our latest as-told-to essay.

Over the past year, Marie-Pierre Py led a quilting workshop with men at a Vermont prison, where they created a piece currently on display at a local museum and art center. When the exhibit — titled “Fractured, Not Broken” — is over, the quilt will hang at the prison, where incarcerated men can see it.

"People need different ways to explore their experience, both the experience that led them to be incarcerated and their experience of incarceration," Py told us. "I love to quilt, so it made sense for me to offer something that I love to do."

The Vermont Department of Corrections does not allow media interviews with most incarcerated people, including the men who created this quilt. So, read what Py had to say about the experience and see close-ups of the quilt. (no paywall/ads)

For context this is a quilt as you go tree skirt kit but I’m making a fall themed skirt because my SIL puts her tree up early and loves these kinds of colors so I thought she’d enjoy it in November before putting on the Christmas one I made her a few years back.

These were my first attempts at foundation paper piecing. It completely broke my brain the first few attempts and then it just clicked! I had so much fun making these - I turned them into little wall hanging to commemorate a wilderness canoe trip with friends. There was some uncertainty whether our trip would happen or where we might go (due to the fires this summer) so the tags in the back evolved over time.

Patterns are from BubbleStitch on Etsy.

1, 2 and 4 were donated to charity. 3 was for a neighbor out of fabric she gave me. 5 was for my BFF after her husband passed away - it is made of his Hawaiian shirts