#hand piecing

[carlinstitches]

Leopards Eating Faces, a banner quilt

[rthwrms]

hand pieced purple scraps

[vafibrearts]

Slowly working my way through my partial Ice Cream Soda blocks, with just a few left to make!

[missanniewhimsy]

trying something new, this time English paper piecing to try to use up some of my many MANY scraps

[alchemiasart]

Gods help me, I’ve been infected. I blame my amazing mother-in-law.

Part of my Croning has been circling back to the Elder Futhark and rekindling my relationship with them. Another part has been reigniting my love for handwork.

Behold, an anti-nightmare spell pillow for children! Hand-pieced, embroidered, and hand-quilted. It will be on the Alchemias site along with the rest of the ritual and also some pattern options for people to make their own. I’m finishing up some other little odds and ends for a fully-fleshed inventory ahead of FaeFest in May (9th, in Austin, Texas), but these and other quilted goodies are going to be on display and available.

Don’t send help, I’ll just put them to work cutting patterns.

[fungusqueen]

Starting today, my quilt will be on display at the local county fair! This project took about two years to complete. The quilt top is entirely hand sewn using the English Paper Piecing technique, where cut-to-shape paper pieces are used to stabilize the shape of the fabric. A ladder stitch is used to join fabric pieces at the edges before the paper is removed. The individual fabrics are mostly vintage sourced and some of the solid colors are hand-dyed by me. The quilt overall measures 36″ x 56″

[cowboyposer]

People who quilt, teach me your ways, do you hand piece and hand quilt, machine piece and hand quilt, machine it all, what're your methods? How do I best start? I can handle sew okay but it's really rough with a sewing machine, but I do have one that's only half broken so I could try