It's Quilt Time

Sometimes I get a stupid idea and I have to make it super fast before I decide its too stupid to see the light of day. It was also a good excuse to work on my paper piecing pattern making and while its not perfect I'm getting better at understanding how to design things that can actually be sewn together.

The quilt represents living with mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. All of the thread on the felt appliqué is silver.

This is my largest quilt to date (thank you friends who helped hold it up in the stairwell), and is the quilt I'm proudest of making. It's also the first quilt I'm thinking about exhibiting, so if anyone has any advice please let me know!

Made a snail pillow Snillow

This is what the back looks like

Better pictures to come but I am! So happy! To have mostly finished quilting this lad!!! Still need to bind the edges tho

and buy copies of the map here: https://www.miakora.com/fabric-map-of-africa

Here's a new link for purchasing purposes

A little quilt I made last year for absolutely no reason other than I thought it would be fun! I was inspired by stitch artist and illustrator Tanya Denyer and used her templates for the mushroom shapes.

This is one of three memory quilts I made a few years ago for the wife, mother, and daughter of a lovely man who died of cancer much too young. I mixed in a few of his dress shirts and T-shirts with other fabrics to make this one for his mom. She recently passed away as well which I was very sad to hear.

55"×65", rainbow jelly roll quilt I started last June and completed in the winter, but I've neglected to post. Eventually it made sense to just wait until now to share 🫶 happy pride month!! 🏳️‍🌈

Time to pick a new project.

Free Star Streams Scrappy Quilt Pattern https://www.fatquartershop.com/2023-star-streams-scrap-quilt-free-pdf-pattern?sscid=b1k8_dyfr4

-batting

i forgot i have quilt pics to post ☝️

All my agoraphobic tendencies might be coming out but at least I'm making some cute stuff while we sit at home and wait for the snow to thaw.

Finished the holiday quilt before the holiday! No mean feat this year, there just aren’t enough quilting/painting/reading hours in a day, sadly. I love how this turned out. A friend said “it looks like an old quilt” and that made me happy.