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This weekend I destroyed and rebuilt a Canadian Tire reusable tote bag via quilting and audacity (the tote was gifted to me at a Heated Rivalry viewing party, hence all the other fandom swag in the picture with the original bag 😅😂). It is yet another Blanket Statement Quilt Co Crescentwood bag because I had pretty much all the supplies for it already and it’s a very quick and practical pattern to make. I fear this is only going to encourage me to commit more bag crimes in the name of gay hockey smut (lol I made this to wear to the Harrison Heated Rivalry rave in Chicago for Halloween 😀✨)

The quilting itself was just straight lines following the white grid on the plaid and around the edges of the logo, which turned out to be pretty invisible with white thread. You can see it more in the picture of the bag inside out from before I attached the straps.

Literally unrecognizable, at this point I think Plastique needs her own flair for this series/artistry/literal witchcraft

https://youtu.be/ZM8ClOi0B1s?is=jfpqpCmIN_I5vdKx

Lol my first blanket sized quilt took me 6 years to finish, my second took me 3 years, and this third one took me 3 months. Progress?

This quilt started with me becoming deeply enamored with the concept of making a Liberty of London quilt, which is a bigger financial commitment than I actually can manage, so I thought why not a I do something that wouldn’t require the whole quilt to be Liberty? A checkerboard would be pretty and could be half a more affordably priced solid, and lol because I can’t do anything normally, I decided this would be the perfect time to finally try out Miss Make’s Omega quilt pattern.

I purchased 15 FQs at the Duckadilly booth at Fiber and Fabric Fest in Chicago, enough to complete the “large throw” size, and the pattern can be completed so fabric efficiently that I had enough to do a scrappy binding, an additional accessory project (pictures of that coming soon), and I have enough scraps I might be able to make a scrappy pillow sham or something.

For the contrast I used an Art Gallery solid and Shannon Cuddle minky for the backing. Last winter I was very cold all the time, so I wanted to make a super warm blanket for me this year. Between the minky and the poly batting, this quilt is quite heavy and warm. My cat Halston immediately cuddled down in it every time I pulled it out to work on the binding. I once again opted for a big stitch binding mostly because I wanted to be sure that all the layers are secure.

Longarming completed by the very talented Big Bear Quilting in Elm Grove, WI (picked the “Lantern Lights” pantograph after I saw someone else use it to quilt this pattern and I quite love the effect with the trippy checkerboard.

The clear pockets are perfect for organizing my leftover hexies, cut out letters, labels, etc, and I always print off duplicates of my FPP patterns just in case and the folders are perfect for storing those. There was a Charizard one too, but I’m partial to Mew (and purple).

Shout out to whomever said to ask customer service- I tried on a whim and they actually did upgrade me from my 200 level seat to a 100 level one. Fantastic show, well designed set, and shout out to the hot accordion player (the whole band was hot tbh, but that accordion player was a star✨).

I’m in a group renting out a theater this weekend to rewatch season 1 of Heated Rivalry on a big screen and we decided to do a craft exchange. Because I know how to print out fabric and I’m an overachiever, I threw together this fun interactive pouch. The design is loosely inspired by Square Stories’ Happy House pouch, but I just improv pieced it together. The edits from Quinn’s Fire and Ice promo and mermaid!Ilya come from frenchnbookish on instagram and I have her blessing (primarily because this is not for sale, just a one off project for an art trade).

The poetry that the last time I cried this hard over a celeb death, it was Carrie Fisher literally 10 years ago in 2016 🥲

RuthlesslyHandmade on Instagram organized these and I feel honored to have been able to participate. 60+ of us contributed blocks to each quilt and are currently being submitted as a pair to different shows.

Both quilts had a specific assigned color palette, and for the rage one we were required to incorporate a checkerboard element and embroider a question we have for those in power in the US rn (as well as their supporters), and for the hope quilt we were asked to incorporate a curved element and to embroider a statement of hope for the future.

The two zoomed in blocks are the ones I personally made and contributed to this project.

Seriously tho, I hope Heidi gets a restraining order against that whole damn family

Going to a rally for Francesca Hong (socialist candidate running for WI’s governor on the dem ticket) and made a sign with my human hands to hold and a) support her anti-data center stance, and b) shame the people I’ve seen making ai signs for her campaign (without her approval). I stitched it as a sleeve that can slide onto a piece of cardboard I taped to a stick, might someday turn it into a pillowcase.

I’ve had some ideas for patchwork protest and/or rally signs for a while but lol found out about this rally about 24 hours ago, so this is what I could manage under that time crunch and from my stash. This is from the patchanddot black letter alphabet, printed at half scale.

I made the Square Stories “Cosy Cottage Tote” that I’ve seen all over instagram. Used fabrics from my RSS and Tula Pink stashes, as well as normal pearl snaps and some Sallie Tomato hardware. This was a fun make that really encourages you to play around with customization (like I added a functional front door and bunch of different appliqué kitty Easter eggs), and I particularly love the little house pouch I got the pattern for bundled with the tote pattern. That one was super fast and easy to make (and imo I good intro to FPP and bag making for people who are already competent at sewing) and I can see myself repeating for quick handmade gifts in the future.

I’ve been so indecisive about what patchwork design and fabric combo I want to do for a quilt coat and I’m kind of really digging this but don’t want to commit because I can’t see the fabrics together in person. Anyone here have the Indeliable Ink fabric “Busy” in Mulberry and the Perennial Border fabric in Plum? And if so could you take some pictures for me of them together? Bonus points if you also have this Tula Pink “What a Ditz” in Pink Lemonade as well 😅

I foundation pieced lyrics from one of my favorite songs off his latest album (from the song “A Few of Your Own”) and added the cutest little dumpster fire for comedy reasons. Stitching down the patches onto a baseball jersey since he’s playing at a baseball field and I’ll get the city specific patch to add to the front under his initials.

I’ve been wanting to do a cathedral windows quilt for a while and it seems to be both a lot easier and more fun to piece than I anticipated, so that is totally going to happen this fall.

May we all do our parts to put the fire out.

The FPP block is from SagebrushPatterns on Etsy, it comes in three sizes and I made the smallest one (about 4x6”) for this patch. Fabric is a mix of Ruby Star, Tula Pink, and random solids from my stash.

Also lol bought the pattern for the purse I’m making so I can properly see how much more I need to expand my panels. I’m really enjoying this and lol now I’m considering doing something a lot more complex next, maybe Tula Pink’s Nova?