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All done! Fluffing and crinkling and cozying up in the dryer now. :) I had so much fun using the good fabric whilst constructing yet another Carrie Nelson pattern. She is the GOAT, IMO. I didn't expect it to take so long to bind it with the blanket stitch, but it did, BUT it's cute and I had some downtime after my flu and covid shots to cramp my paws up with stitching. Instead of straight-line cross-hatching, I did repeating lines out from a cross in the center, with a repeating pattern of ten or eleven different colors and weights of top thread, purely to satisfy my own autistic delight for setting a rule and adhering to it. This was my first time using bamboo/cotton/silk blend batting and it felt great- Im hyped to see how it feels and drapes after it's dried.

Lordy. I very much enjoy quilting and it's all I ever really want to do.

Took my mom and I two 6-hour days and sporadic one-hour increments. We moved in about two and a half years ago, and never unpacked. Just wanted to show y’all!! We’re proud af of the effort it took!!

I found this pattern in an older kitchen sewing book and it is the perfect fall table runner!! I’m obsessed!!! 🤩 bonus points because it was made from fabrics I already had laying around which is a win in my book lol

Highland cow play mat / baby quilt I finished a week before my baby arrived! It’s a little bittersweet as I know it will be a while before I can get back to sewing now.

Second quilt is the Elizabeth Hartman Cats in Space I made for my best mates boss. My golden retriever tested it out for comfort.

I'm so proud of my daughter. She finished her first quilt. She did every step herself except for using the rotary cutter and binding (it's hard!). She's 7 years old, and started sewing last year.

I asked her if there's anything she wants to say to the community: "It's so fun. I love it!"

This quilt has absolutely kicked my tail, but the quilt top is finally done. Tuesday I'll pick out the backing fabric, and hand it over to the long armer.

I know the couple I'm making it for are going to love it, but it's definitely not going to be done in time for their baby shower. So they'll get a photo of the quilt top, and an IOU at their baby shower.

My first ever quilt and I finally can use it!!!

I had been purchasing halloween fabrics for this bad boy for YEARS!!! It then took me a bit to cut out all my pieces, put them all together, and bind it all together. I ended up hand stitching the quilting stitches because it wouldn’t fit in my machine, so I just did some small diagonal lines. I finally finished the binding this past summer.

It spent some time in the closet since I finished it in July but now that it’s Halloween time I’ve added it to the bed and I slept with it for the first time last night :) feeling very proud!

Completed for a friend of a friend who is non-binary/trans.
I haven't completed a quilt in over a year, between work, depression and anxiety.
This felt good.

I like to go all in and make things very hard on myself so I made a king/queen size quilt for my first project! I somewhat freehand quilted wavy lines using a walking foot because I don’t have a serpentine stitch on my machine. Although I would have loved to do some hand quilting, I don’t have the patience for that, so I just hand stitched the binding on the front.

This is technically my second quilt (although I did do an entire baby quilt in the middle of assembling this one), and I'm thrilled with how it came out! I made the borders out of my scraps from doing the pineapple blocks.

Now I just need to decide on backing, binding, and what kind of quilting pattern to have done!

Hand pieced, hand quilted, and hand bound my first quilt :)

I made it to bring awareness to a couple of voter initiatives in WA on the ballot for November (I-001 and I-638).

It’s the second quilt I’ve started, but the first finished since it’s pretty small. It was my first dabble into appliqué as well, and I learned a lot in the process! There are plenty of mistakes I made on the way during the appliquéing, but I left them on the quilt so I can better gage my progression over time as I get more used to the craft.

In the quilting in the top right corner, I used the stitches to spell out “Protect Trans Kids”, which each row having the letters’ body width expand to fill the white space. Everywhere else I used butterfly shapes for the quilting stitches. I saw somewhere in a past post that someone used masking tape they cut into shape as a guide for when they hand quilt nontypical shapes and didn’t want to mark on the fabric itself, which I found to be incredibly useful! Thanks in retrospect to whoever you are that suggested it on this subreddit :)

Edit: thank you all for the kind suggestions so far, I do want to reiterate my purpose in posting here. I am looking for a person who will know what they are looking at and holding quickly and confidently. I've learned a good deal in the last couple of days, but nowhere near enough to make this sale as successful as it can possibly be.

P.S. Short of finding someone who can be present to help, I think one thing that could help is a short list of noteworthy names and fabric makers to look out for. I have bags and bags (and bags) of kits and patterns going back 30 years and as recent as last year. I have a few names written down, I can't recall them all, I know there's a Kaffe and an Annie, and... Maybe a Marie? I can't keep them all straight! Any who. Thanks again!

Original post:

I just typed out a very long post before reddit ate it and I'm too tired to lay it all out again in detail. The important part is this: I have a sale scheduled for this weekend that is very quilting heavy. It is a small cottage that is a part of a larger property and it is full to bursting with fabric, notions, and everything in between. I have looked for someone local who can help and came up empty. I do have a woman who has been in the home decorator textile world for decades helping, but she is not well versed in quilting. I also have needlepoint, ribbon, basket weaving, embroidery, etc. Etc.

I have been up to my ears in the stuff for days and I seem to be making very little progress. There is SO. MUCH!

So I'm here making a hail Mary, hoping someone in or near Shreveport, LA is willing and able to help me this week. I have 4 days remaining and having another person in there who actually knows about quilting would make all the difference in the world!

I realize it's unlikely, but I figure it's worth a shot! This would, of course, be a paid position and just for the week. Please reach out to me if you are my unicorn.

Mods, please delete and accept my apologies if not allowed. Happy quilting.

I got a bunch of old plaid fabric from a quilters group I was in, and really want to do something with it, but there's two things stopping me from leaping in.

First, the fabric has a faint smell of old lady home. Which isnt to say terrible (or moldy), but it's very distinct, and I'm not sure if I should pre wash. I kinda like the smell, it makes me think of my grandma's home, but I'm finding mixed results online on what it means for the health of the fabric.

Second? There's too many options for patterns! How do I pick which pattern to do?

I want to make a quilt for my bed (queen sized), and I know there's enough here. I've even got a bunch of plaid binding. How does anyone decide what to do? How do I pick?

This top was one of my earliest forays into quilting. I put it away because I had no idea how to quilt it, plus I was nervous to ruin it with so little actual quilting experience. It's time to finish it, but I still have no idea what color thread to use, or how to quilt it. I should add that I'm much better at FMQ now, and I do have a walking foot, so the doing the actual quilting isn't nearly as daunting as it once was. Open to any/all ideas with many thanks!

My husband talked me into getting this quilt kit at the Columbus quilt show a couple of weeks ago and I just finished it last night! I’m pretty proud of it despite reversing the appliqué on accident and winging my quilt stitches.

I've been lovingly calling this my "cottagecore vomit" quilt because of all the mismatched floral patterns from charm square packs and fat quarters I've impulse bought over the years. It did not make as much of a dent in the stash as I'd hoped (somehow new fabric keeps appearing??? It's a mystery)

Pattern is called Charming Stars, a freebie from Moda Fabrics designed by Little Lady Patchwork.

The pattern is from Julius Handmade. This made for a great retreat project and took me 2 days to finish. I love the result!

I don't know how this happened; my best guess is that I wrote down the numbers wrong after using the binding calculator, but I fiddled and twiddled until I actually got a diagonal seam on the binding strips with about 1/2 inch to spare.

Football and quilting. I just call it multitasking. Go Bengals!!