It's Quilt Time

A guild member had stars blocks she had run out of steam on, so she offered them alongside some brown and green yardage to anyone that wanted to make a charity quilt. I took the bundle and was inspired to do this on point layout with striped sashing I recently saw in a YouTube video. It ended up making a quilt top that perfectly fit on an off cut of batting I had! It also amazes me how setting blocks on point can turn eight blocks into a solid sized quilt.

fourth finished quilt top ⭐️

this one is “faelights” by coffee bar quilt co, in the “moody rainbow” fat quarter bundle curated by toad and sew and sold by full moon fabrics.

heron+fish (18"x12")

Behold my Hercules beetle! I took a huge chunk of time away from piecing and sewing in general due to work insanity, but I finally got around to finishing this boy.

The fabric is all second hand: the background fabric came from a local craft thrift store, and the green/orange and brown/gold speckled fabrics are twice reused kimono silks. The kimono fabric was gifted to me by the wonderful Madame Button, who used the original garments to make these gorgeous corsets.

She got the kimono because they were either new dead stock, or in such bad condition that they couldn't be worn. She can't use the fabric once it's cut up smaller than a corset panel, so she's been chucking the scraps at me for a while, and I've finally gotten over my fear of cutting up such beautiful silks. Go check out The Bad Button on Instagram and Facebook and drool over her other gorgeous pieces.

I decided to forgo sandwiching and quilting this because I wanted the piecing lines to be the highlight. For now it's tacked to a plain cotton bed sheet until I can find a nicer frame for it.

Pineberry quilt, 60" x 68", pattern by Pen and Paper Quilting

My favorite!!! I finished this at the end of the summer last year but never posted bc i put it up for display as soon as it was done. This is definitely the most complicated block I'd done up to then, and sat on this pattern and cherry-picked solids for about a year before feeling confident enough to start (in the end, there's still one stinker block I didn't place properly orz) I'm really happy with the free motion too! All came together really lovely, wip under cut!

Progress on my pride quilt :)

It’s finished!!!!!!!!

And the top is done! Backing fabric and binding and I will have finished my first ever quilt!

No idea if this will be a lifelong hobby but I set out to learn how to use a sewing machine and I can say that was a success at least. Of course after this I still have to make two more quilts (stupid equality for my kids lol). I learned a lot, this thing looks okay for how badly squared and measured all my blocks were and I am feeling accomplished and proud of myself.

I wanted the colors to look like a bowl of jelly beans.

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