I made a quilt for my niece as a surprise for her first trip to the movies! I wanted it movie themed and some nods to Toy Story since it was her first movie! I didn’t have a pattern so I just winged it! I definitely learned a lot haha but I’m very happy with it! ❤️🧵
This is Sophie... my quilty kitty. She has a "Sophie pad" located to the right of my sewing machine where she likes to "help" me with my work. If she's a good girl, she stays there but crawls onto my sewing if she feels she's not getting adequate attention.
It’s a hand made log cabin pattern in the most incredible colors I’m obsessed.
Adding another picture post wash in comments.
This was very fun to make and my first time FMQ without a ruler!
One of the few quilts I didn't pre wash fabrics on. Top ended up 72" x 72. Quilted it was 69"x 69". After washing it was 65" x 65" Dream Cotton batting Select loft. Quilt pattern is Alaska by Laundry Basket Quilts, fabrics all 100% cotton
What’s a quilt without a kitty.
As of today, July 5th, we are at 28/50 states received! A list of what states remain is in the comments. I will continue to update the list as they roll in. I’m planning on sharing this with her next weekend to get started on opening the 43 envelopes we have received thus far. I’ll post pics! The project is far from over so feel free to send from near or far. Thank you to everyone who has/is making this so successful!
Update: we have started seeing scraps roll in!! Please help us get all 50 states!
My grandma (92) is a lifelong quilter, and quilting has been one of the great joys of her life.
She’s created some incredible work over the years, including a Dear Jane quilt and Amy Bradley projects, but these days her quilting looks a little different. She no longer takes on large quilts, but she still loves fabric, small sewing projects, and the joy of creating.
I had an idea and thought this community might understand.
Would anyone be willing to send a small envelope-sized quilting cotton scrap (4x6, 5x7, whatever little piece you’d like) from your sewing room? If you’d like, you could also include fabric that symbolizes where you’re from.
Bonus if it has a story:
“leftover from my daughter’s baby quilt”
“fabric I bought on vacation”
“my favorite print I’ve been hoarding for years”
I’d love to surprise her with “Stitches Across America” — little fabric treasures and stories from fellow makers around the country to remind her she’s part of a much bigger quilting community.
No expensive commitments, no big pieces needed—just scraps with heart.
If there’s enough interest, I’ll set up a PO Box / mailing address.
Holly Brohman
42911 Callaway RD
Callaway, NE 68825
Thank you for even reading this. ❤️
This one was a gift for my sister. I was really practicing making my corners line up. It was also my first time using a long arm, that definitely made the quilting go a lot faster!
Hello! I'm working on this quilt top (iced vovo by Jen Kingwell) featuring a lot of the new Tim Holtz line. Love the line. This quilt has ended up being very scrappy (which is fine!) and a lot more muted than I'm used to. I have more squares/half squares to make; I just wanted to get a look at how it's coming along. And looking at it laid out.... I don't know how I feel. It's not correctly or artistically laid out right now btw, just kinda on the floor. I'm feeling it's kind of 'meh' color wise. I was thinking that since I have more pieces to make I could steer it in some kinda direction. But what direction?
Anyone else feel it's 'meh'? What would you add/change if you could to make it better? I've been considering adding some jewel toned solids, but I'm not sure. It'll probably be fine when it's all out together but I'm feeling doubt.
Help is appreciated!
Now I just have to sew them all together. And do borders. I'm quite happy with it!
Quilted book sleeve made with this gorgeous shell fabric from the Tula Pink Floral Reef collection. It definitely could have used some more pressing, but overall I’m quite happy with it ☺️
I’m currently working on a quilted sewing machine cover using a charm pack of the Floral Reef line, and I found myself coming back to this fabric over and over again! (and also keep procrastinating the more difficult steps of that project lol). Decided to put this together today, I’d call it an afternoon well spent
Pattern: my boho home by lavender lime quilts
Fabric: house mouse by Louise Cunningham for cloud 9
As the title says - this is my fourth quilt ever, but the first quilt I’ve ever followed a pattern for. It’s fun to see how fast it comes together once you have your blocks done.
I’m not sure how to quilt this without the thread or thread color taking away from the design. Maybe this needs some kind of hand quilting or minimal machine quilting.
I’ve been scouring the internet for another person’s FO of this pattern but I can’t find any! If you’ve done this I’d love to see it
Help! Looking for ideas/suggestions from the creative community 🥰 I’m working on a “gradient quilt” for my young adult son. Trying to keep costs down and use the fat quarters, partial yards in my stash, etc., as I’m not bringing home what I was (recovering from car accident and trying to keep busy to deal with my anxiety in a productive way)… including pictures of fabrics and one proposed layout. TYIA ❤️
And it was all OK in the end. I did use 12 colour catchers in the initial wash though.
Taking time on my vacation to start sewing the 6 blocks I was able to cut out so far. Pretty proud of the progress, although I’m hoping that random cutting the text can (vs fussy cutting the direction) blends in to a similar choice in other blocks. I’m holding off doing the border for now just in case I want to redo those on the right side.
When I was working on my first ever quilt, my cats loved laying on the quilt top so much that I decided to make them their own little quilt. Kitty Quilt 1.0 was a small rag quilt, which only one cat could lay on, which caused frequent conquests over it. Floof flying everywhere. Quickly it was decided that bigger lands need to be acquired, big enough to fit two big booties. So kitty quilt 1.1 was created.
Fabrics used are from the Poppie Cotton Market Day series, no pattern used, just something quick I came up with in an afternoon. It's been in daily use now for about two years and only once I had to re-do one heart-pattern because a kitty made biscuits too passionately.
I can't stop making these. I might have to do an entire appliqué polka dot quilt.
Another placemat finished by request of a friend! I had to make some minor pattern modifications in order to better replicate their fur patterning. As they're big cat fans, I did a cat pattern, with cat fabric, and cat quilting! I'm not sure how else I could include more "cat-ness" into the process short of making car hair batting or becoming a cat 😼
Thank y’all for all of the advice - especially about hand quilting around the paper star pattern situation. Of course the quilters who came before me had invented the solution, chalk! Adding a border, yep, that was awesome too! Quilted it on my Singer sewing machine that was manufactured in 1948. The pipe insulation rollers didn’t work for me; maybe I rolled them over instead of under? The quilt didn’t stay taut. Chose many safety pins and good old fashioned physical quilt wrangling instead. The big cotton thread was a really great addition!
Proud to be an American. Proud to be a quilter. Excited to work on my next quilt; I wonder what new things I’ll learn?
Happy birthday America, I guess. Something something freedoms? Blah blah greatness. Oooh, ahhh, fireworks.
I still need to add binding or facing, I didn't have the enthusiasm for it. I'm spending the day sinking into my couch.