Quilts and Antifacism

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[liminalmemories21]

Done is Good

The other thing I finished today. With bonus cat content at the end (ignore my messy living room).

@cecilyv if you look closely you will see remnants of your wedding quilt fabric in here (I think).

[florad0ra]

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!! 🏳️‍🌈

[thatndginger]

I can't show all the quilts I've done this year (two of them are surprises) but here are a couple I'll be handing off to get finished soon! The blue and cream one is reversible, which is a fun little twist for me. The mountains nearly made me throw myself off a cliff more than once but I am beyond proud of it ^.^

I am already planning on how to make the mountains *more* complicated and 'realistic', but that's on hold until I whittle down my stash some more. Maybe it'll be a wedding gift for some outdoorsy friends who are getting hitched next year....

[itgetsrad]

i finished piecing together the rows of my first solo quilt today. there are obvious problems i need to figure out how to fix & i want to do a border around it but yeah... frustrated but ultimately proud of myself

[useless-catalanfacts]

The AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington DC (USA) in 1996. Photo source: AIDS Memorial Quilt social media.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt was started in 1987 in the USA to show all the lives that were lost to AIDS representing them humanely and not just as a statistic. It was nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. The idea spread to other countries, and it was also done here in Catalonia starting in 1993.

An event with the local AIDS Memorial Quilt in Barcelona (Catalonia) in the 1990s.

Other parts of the quilt. Photos from Catalonia History Museum.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt is present in over 40 countries, where about 100,000 tapestries have been made to commemorate loved ones who died due to this illness. It is the largest piece of community folk art in the world.

The Quilt has the objective of keeping alive the memory of the people who died of AIDS, but it also has an educational purpose, showing the diversity of people who were affected by it. AIDS was an extremely stigmatised illness because of its association to gay men, drug users, and prostitutes (even though it affected -and still affects- other people, too), that led to some religious leaders and conservative politicians to state that it was divine punishment and that nothing should be done to help the ill people. People with AIDS, their friends and family, and the queer community as a whole had to fight just to be treated like other ill people would.

Nowadays, it is known that the most important tool to not get or spread HIV is to be protected during sex and not share needles. If a person catches HIV, it can be treated with medication that slows down the virus from developing into AIDS so much that it extends the life expectancy to a standard level, so a person can have a normal life while being HIV-positive. For this, it's important to be tested to find it early. For this reason, the people most affected by AIDS in the present are people from countries with little medical resources, with the highest death rates in Africa.

In 2017, the Catalan AIDS Memorial Quilt was donated to the Catalonia History Museum. On World AIDS Day (December 1st) part of it is lent to the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Hall to hang it from the balconies, and it's also exhibited in other occasions.

[pipistrellafelix]

baby quilt finished! and given to the nearly-parents today. frog prince has gone hard into quilting (the layout was all him & I'm obsessed with the color gradient). can't wait for the next one. boy reba, we hope you love this quilt from day one!

[lemongrad]

Wedding quilt for friends! Based (roughly) on the "true lover's knot" pattern, 7'x7'. Machine pieced, hand quilted.

[bluedesignwall]

Saturday 6 June 2026 the Big Blue Star Hexie quilt top is finished.

[androidsfighting]

Wait no this is the last one lol. The crazy quilt I'm currently making and my sweet precious angel son being ever so helpful

[mmeadarts]

Hi i made some quilts a while ago and forgot to post them

[androidsfighting]

Bggest quilt i've made so far!!! Machine pieced and hand quilted.

[paintmeanelephant]

I haven’t been posting quilt updates because I’ve just been doing the same thing. These are 48 of the 64 fans I need for the fan quilt.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Please share pics of your cat(s) interacting with a quilt. No other animals unless at least one cat is also present and interacting with a quilt, please. I miss my cats, and how much they liked to be involved.

[neviditelny]

This is Portia, who decided that the hoop of my mom's ongoing quilting project was the perfect spot to sit.

[snazzycrow]

here’s our lovely lady sitting on one of my mom’s quilts!

[waterbearwasteland]

My babies are so helpful

[norwegianfacecrusher]

Behold my Hercules beetle! I took a huge chunk of time away from piecing and sewing in general due to work insanity, but I finally got around to finishing this boy.

The fabric is all second hand: the background fabric came from a local craft thrift store, and the green/orange and brown/gold speckled fabrics are twice reused kimono silks. The kimono fabric was gifted to me by the wonderful Madame Button, who used the original garments to make these gorgeous corsets.

She got the kimono because they were either new dead stock, or in such bad condition that they couldn't be worn. She can't use the fabric once it's cut up smaller than a corset panel, so she's been chucking the scraps at me for a while, and I've finally gotten over my fear of cutting up such beautiful silks. Go check out The Bad Button on Instagram and Facebook and drool over her other gorgeous pieces.

I decided to forgo sandwiching and quilting this because I wanted the piecing lines to be the highlight. For now it's tacked to a plain cotton bed sheet until I can find a nicer frame for it.

Pattern is from Etive & Co on Etsy and I could not recommend their patterns enough. I scaled the pattern up by 200% because I wanted the silks to really shine in this design.

[florad0ra]

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!

[paintmeanelephant]

More quilts from the Victoria quilt show, May 2026

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

Best thing about watching my grandparents cat is that while I'm there I can rifle through the great Quilt Stash and bring out beautiful works of art to sleep under.