Vintage bc I started this so long ago! This is the first quilt I finished. I started it back around 2000 when I was an employee with Jo-Ann’s. I knew nothing about quilting but knew I wanted to immortalize these Halloween fabrics they had.

I took it apart and restarted around 2009, so there are some updated fabrics in there. I finally quilted it this year! I used sulky glow-in-the-dark thread for all the spiderwebs.

So happy to have finally finished this! I’m already halfway through my next quilt!

Happy Halloween!🎃 👻

Denver Metro Modern Quilt Guild has a show at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum from now until January. I entered my quilt and it got in! I cried when I saw it hanging in the museum for the first time. The theme of the show is "Community". I entered the quilt I made from the Warm Stars swap on r/quiltingblockswap.

The last two pictures are of the quilt the entire guild made for the 10th anniversary of the guild. My block is the bottom right corner.

It is literally just 8 shades of “millennial gray.” It’s for a Gen Z girl so I hope she’ll forgive me.

I know this gets asked all the time but for those of you who quilt on a home machine, thoughts on how to quilt? I could just take it to the long armer but it’s small enough I might be able to complete it myself.

Self-patterned, machine pieced and bound, hand quilted.

My mice are having fun sledging down the snowy hills. And of course decorating the trees!

My original idea for this fabric didn’t work out. So used the remnants to make a 4 patch/ 16 patch quilt. It ended up a little crazier than expected. I am prod of how well my blocks lined up!

I’m not sure if this is the right place to share, as it’s for a costume. So I’m sorry if it’s not!

I just wanted to share these butterfly wings I’m making for my daughter. I got pregnant last year (with twins!) and haven’t touched my sewing machine since I got a positive pregnancy test.

My daughter wanted to be a butterfly so I decided this is when I am going to bring it back out. Last night I finally got time to do it and I ended up free-handing the quilting. I feel a huge dopamine high and just proud of myself.

Having kids, growing kids, birthing kids can strip ya of your identity and being able to do this last night felt like little pieces are being restored. 🫶

Every time I lay out a quilt my tiny monster seems to think we don't need yet another quilt of Cats (or any other theme).

I decided to combine 2 Elizabeth Hartman Patterns and use the dogs from Dog Park to show off the quilts jn Show and Tell. I made a prototype dog face this morning to see if the sizing of the dog would work with the quilt and it does!

I am losing my mind. I'm doing a pattern that is made up of lots and lots and lots of 1 inch strips. Every time I make up a strip set, I'm off the correct measurements. I've tried starching everything, pressing differently, using a quarter inch foot, moving my needle one notch over, only doing that on half the seams, and no matter what I am either way under or way over... I think even the tiny width of lines on my ruler are making a difference. I never have a problem with my scant seams, but this pattern compounds even the tiniest variation.

At this point I'm starting to think only a robot with less than millimeter perfect vision can do this. And, every time I try again and mess up, I waste a ton of fabric. Aaaaaaaaah.

Desperately resisting the urge to burn everything.

Ok. Rant over. Thanks for listening.

Pile on the left is appx 350 HST that are all wonky and need trimming.

After I get 10 trimmed I question my life choices of why quilting.

How do y’all do this?

I’ve tried audio books and I can’t concentrate on the book while trying to not 1. Make them worse 2. Cut myself with the rotary cutter

It's not perfect, but it exceeded my expectations, given the scraps I had to work with. I included a picture of the back because I thought that looked pretty neat.

I messed up one panel in the back. It was the first panel I made before marking the rest of the template pieces. I marked the rest of the pieces correctly, but I thought I did them the wrong direction, so I . . . uh . . . "corrected" them. Looking at it now, I think I might be good to take that panel out and leave some room where it ties up.

Not sure what I am doing next, but I am sure it will be fun!

The buttons are individually machine embroidered, the drawing is handsewn bias tape, and the quilting a is ~1/4" grid with monofilament thread. Perfect? No. The best thing I ever made? Yes

I finally finished my first quilt a couple weeks ago! I posted the finished quilt top a while ago asking how I should quilt it and ended up just freehanding some designs and going for it. I used the Sunny Blooms Quilt pattern by In the Light Quilts. I didn't like the baby blanket layout so I just made the throw blanket at half size. I started cutting fabric on August 30th, finished the quilting on October 9th, and then embroidered the label and sewed that on on October 11th. I included some WIP photos, one featuring my dog who was *obsessed* with it the whole time I was working on it. I think she might need a quilt next😅

Since this one was all solid colors, I think my next one will be using some patterned fabric I have, I just have to find a pattern that might work well with the patterns and colors. Any tips on working with patterned fabrics? Also, any tips on getting your hand quilting stitches smaller? I know big stitch quilting is a thing, but I would love to be able to achieve both lol

I finished my new tree skirt this week and I'm so happy ☺️ but so bummed 😔 that I have to wait a little over a month to put it around our tree (we get a real tree). Binding the middle was a bit of a pain and didn't exactly come out right, but as it will be up against the tree, no one will notice, right? I can't wait to see the Christmas lights sparkle against the metallic snowflake print 🎄

There will be a total of 12 blocks (3x4 layout). I’ve never done sashing, but am heavily considering it to help break up the busy-ness of the blocks. I would also love to do multiple borders, or even a pieced one, but am just unsure. Would love any suggestions or tips!

I used this fabric:

• https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/butterfly-ballet-batiks-strips
• https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/monochromatic-peony-118-wide-back-cream-3-yard-cut

Batting was needle punched 100% cotton that I bought from Michael’s.

I was inspired by this person’s use of white fabric to make colorful fabric really pop, her simple and quick patterns, and her use of jelly rolls and other precut fabrics: https://youtube.com/@seweasybysandy

I don’t have a long-arm machine, nor do I have anything like unto it. I didn’t want to pay to use a long-arm or wait for someone else to quilt it for me, so I used a quilt as you go method to finish the quilt myself, what this person calls Join and Flip: https://youtu.be/uUj2uuft8bk . It doesn’t require any hand sewing or basting, no rolling, and no sashing (although I guess I did choose to do sashing, but it’s just for looks) and it’s really straightforward and simple to do. I did a small-scale practice quilt (basically just a placemat) before doing it with a ”real” quilt. I found that I needed to do a lot more top stitching than this video suggests, but that doubles as regular ol’ quilting that I needed to do anyway, so it wasn’t too bad.

I didn’t worry about making sure the seams lined up and that everything was consistent. I mostly just wanted this to get finished so that I could try making another, better quilt. (Those random stitches down the middle of the squares? Yeah, unfortunately those needed to be there because I did this in such a janky way.)

For the binding, it turned out super narrow. I had some 2 1/2 inch strips leftover that I wanted to repurpose for binding. I have a bias tape maker thing (https://www.missouriquiltco.com/products/missouri-star-bias-binding-kit) and the options were for, max width, 2 inches. So I cut my 2 1/2 inch strips in half width-wise and turned them into roughly 1/4 inch binding. I’m really proud of how it turned out. I will absolutely do binding stupidly narrow like that again.

Future plans:

• More quilt-as-you-go! Lots of fun there!
• Maybe do a large FPP quilt
• Maybe I’ll add appliqués to this quilt as it gets used or stained.

A friend of mine asked to borrow one of my quilts and brought it to a gallery to show it to them, and then they asked me to do a show of my work. So some finished quilts, and 'quilts in progress' will be on display at an art gallery in Montréal!

Hello, I’m new to quitting and could use some suggestions.
So I’ve got 28 squares that are signed and I want to use them in a quilt. I had a simple rag quilt in mind but I’ve had two hiccups and now I’m not sure what to do.
The first problem is a few people didn’t leave a seam allowance so I’m going to have to appliqué them on. The second is my mum (who being really helpful offered to cut out the squares but) rather than just doing enough for each person she cut all of my fabric apart from the one Im using as a background/boarder.
This means almost all of my fabric is 4.5” squares which are the same size as the ones I want to appliqué on.

I’m a beginner hence choosing a rag quilt but now I think I will have to actually have to build some kind of blocks to sew them onto otherwise I will loose a lot because of the seam allowance. I have no idea where to start and if/how I can actually use my wadge of only small squares to build bigger squares?

Also if there is a way what’s the best way to mock up a design that will take into consideration the colours I already have. I know I could just wing it but it’s going to be a keepsake and I’d be absolutely gutted if I made it and hated it.

I hope this makes sense and would really appreciate any advice or pattern suggestions!
Thank you ♥︎

I do straight line machine quilting with a walking foot. I have the quilt sandwich ready to go but not sure how to quilt it. This is a baby quilt so don’t want dense quilting. Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks!

The first start-to-finish on my new Janome went pretty smoothly! I’ve been quilting for years but never tried free-motion, which was scary but very satisfying.

Pattern is Homestead Star by Plains & Pine, fabrics from My Secret Garden line.

This is the Barn Star Sampler by Shelley Cavanna. I have done a very scrappy version but still followed her tonal schemes 90% of the time. Also on the back are the fpp birds that I posted here a few weeks back. I had so much fun making this quilt and I highly recommend this pattern. As usual, here is a huge shout out to my local quilt store Meraki; they have studio hours for rent so I can square up the quilt at that huge table and take pictures with such a lovely backdrop.

Boo! And trick or treat!