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my mom won a ribbon in her quilt show 🥹🥹 I’m so proud of her <3
Just in time for Moon Day Monday, I finished my quilt!
I learned many things on this one, including:
- nesting your seams is a thing and it really helps with nice aligned corners, who knew??
- inset circles. Now I fear nothing, including God
- how to use the long arm with a pantograph
- the easy way to change thread on the long arm because the inner blocks were too light for the medium grey thread I was using
- how to stress out my grandfather stopping at various points on the pantograph because I wanted to do something different in the moons and finally
- fun things about free motion quilting, so I could put the correct textures of our beautiful lady into the different phases on the blocks.
The pattern is a mish mash of the Moon Portal quilt pattern by The Water Spirit and the Plaid-ish 2 from Erica Jackman of Kitchen Table quilting, plus some cathedral window blocks for the stars in various sizes.
I had plans to do this with my usual approach to color (All Of Them!) but this piece wanted to be simple and sweet and who am i to tell my art what it wants to be? heh.
Pattern is Quadratische Decke, yarn is warp twist cotton 8/2, size 5 needles, paint is dye-na-flow.
Haven’t had a chance to watch the tutorial yet, but I’m seriously considering making this for my gf’s niece
Tour de Fleece reminder!
In 2026 TdF starts on Saturday, July 4th!
For many of us that is tomorrow; got your fibre ready?
TdF runs from July 4 - 26 2026, with rest days (if you observe them) on Mondays the 13th and 20th.
If you want to do something extra silly, I'm going to try to get a survey together to track how much (weight or length) we spin this year. I'll post when I get it organised.
favorites from the 2026 empire quiltfest
So, I decided to start my pride quilt before Pride Month ends!
It's a traditional Lone Star quilt block design which looks like this.
After cutting all my strips from my yardage, I assembled my big six strip sets. There are six permutations like the one shown below.
After pressing all of the seams open, more cutting must be done. Each big set gets cut at a 45° angle.
One diagonal strip from each permutation is used in a diamond section. The overall lone star block is made of eight diamonds.
The diamonds will look like this! Now, I just gotta sew the diagonal strips into diamonds.
Pride Flag Quilt Top
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY!!! I recently finished this pride flag quilt top, which I'll be displaying at my local pride event next week!
I wanted each block to be different and eye catching in its own way, so that you don't get bored looking at bland stripes. This project is a labor of love. I did the math on piecing nearly every block, save for the house block on the bottom right corner. That came from a book. I went through quite a struggle doing all the math to make the blocks that are split diagonally by color. Those were the ones that took me the longest to get through. The regular solid color rainbow blocks? I flew through those in two days, lol!
I'll share closeups below the cut:
Beaded Rainbow Odenwald Shawl!
Lost my mind a little and added (if my math is correct) 5,615 beads to Nim Teasdale's Odenwald pattern. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!
The goal was “soothingly weighted but not uncomfortable to wear, even as someone with chronic pain.” It could have been a little heavier, so maybe I’ll make a shawl with larger beads another time, but I’m very pleased with this one. I used size 6/0 seed beads, applied as I go with a .6mm crochet hook.
Yarn-wise, used 2 cakes of YarnArt Flowers. I knitted the fully purple sections from both, then knitted all the way through the yellow-oranges with a single ball. When I hit the beginning of red-oranges, I used yarn from both cakes, alternating between them. (Not the entirety of both, I played it by ear to make sure I made it through the full rainbow.)
I do have edited charts with bead placements. I will only share them with Nim's permission.
I've done A LOT of knitting/crochet this year while chronic illness kept me from my sewing machine, but I'm feeling much better now. There will be new quilts to look forward to soon, plus a few more yarn crafts to share in the meantime!
Finally bought some dye and have been having so much fun with optical color mixing. I decided to start with cmyk primaries to get some vibrant color options.
So far I've only mixed up the main batch of colors, but I'll split them up and create a palatte of tints and shades once I have access to a scale again.
I don't have any fancy tools and have been blending the fiber by hand, so it's probably best I have a forced break for the sake of my fingers. Once I'm done I should have a very useful set of 57 2g swatches to play with! (Plus 5 more for a set of grayscale swatches)
If I'm still up for it, I might repeat the whole thing with my classic red, yellow, blue primary dye set. For a truly massive set of heather swatches.
I'll create a comprehensive guide to all the color mixes and my process once I'm done, but in the meantime here's a mixing guide for the colors I've already done!
The ratios are presented in the same order as the wool swatches in the photo above it. I didn't simplify any of the ratios so you'll have to deal with 2:2s instead of 1:1s, oops.
For anyone curious, I used brilliant yellow, deep magenta, and caribbean blue from Dharma dyes on their corriedale wool for my base colors.
Finally finished weighing out and blending all the tints and shades! Each color got a swatch mixed with 50% white, and 50% black.
Plus some pure black and white mixes to compare to my cyan/magenta/yellow midtone gray tint and shade.
I really like the oil slick quality of the color based grays!
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!
Hexagon Quilt
This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.
I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV
I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!
Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.
Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:
Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.
These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.
With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.
Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.
Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.
Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.
This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.
Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.
The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.
Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.
Scrappy plaidish quilt (free pattern from kitchentablequilting)
Finished my ocean quilt. I hid a few fish and shrimp in the stitching for anyone who likes a small treasure hunt.
Finished my biggest and most tedious project to date. by fish006117
My "Transparencies" quilt took 1st in category (pieced modern traditional) in my guild's recent show!
This was my first big guild show and while I hoped to place, landing in first was a happy surprise! I've also entered this quilt into an upcoming juried show (also my first), so keep your fingers crossed for me.
so a while back (nearly 2 years ago oops) i did a big combospin project. the goal was to spin enough for a sweater. i chose a big mess of colors with an overall pink/purple theme.
it was super fun to do! i was aiming for a 3ply worsted/aran weight, but unfortunately this was my first ever sweater quantity spin so despite being good and doing a test spin and everything, i ended up with something closer to a bulky to super bulky weight. oops!
i loved the look of it though so i really tried to make it work! unfortunately i rather quickly figured out i wouldn't have enough yarn if it's this thick.
so, somewhat heartbroken i put my very pretty but somewhat useless yarn in a box. didn't want to look at it, didn't want to think of the solution just yet. needed to get over it before i could figure out a way to fix it, you know?
anyway, i have now actually fixed it! (i think) will talk about that whole thing later. just wanted to show you how it started first.