shayla’s quilty things

sew big or go home

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bugs and tulips

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some birds and mushrooms

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A strawberry pillow I made for a friend

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I designed this!

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the taffy quilt I finished this morning

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it’s a good deal

(via I Used Kohl's Cash to Get a Lobotomy Magnet by Shayla Hunt)

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me at 3am realizing that im not even having fun playing video games but i cant stop playing them because i crave constant entertainment and have forgotten how to enjoy reading or creating art

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the things you can do with canva :1)

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Can you believe I found like 95% of this stuff in dumpsters

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finally done with this giant thing

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My attempt at using up my scraps

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Now to bind it..

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Finished my first daisy free motion quilting on this little Texas, made from cut up charm packs and a bunch of Texas fabric that I fussy-cut

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Working on straight line quilting my highland cow

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A scrappy birb quilt made with 100% recycled and reclaimed materials for a bird lover I love! The fabric, batting, buttons, and even the thread were all sourced from my own clothing, thrift bins, or FabScrap BK.

Bird block pattern is Pretty Bird by Heather Valentine of The Sewing Loft

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Weight of Love quilt - Finished!

It took over 4 years, but I finally finished the Weight of Love quilt that I started with Libs Elliott back when I first moved to Ottawa.

It was my one project that for whatever reason, just never seemed to get done! I left it less than half-pieced for about 3 years (I didn’t touch it after our workshop). At a retreat in 2018, I finished up the patchwork section, but then I waited about another year before appliquéing it on to a backing fabric. Then I finally quilted it up this past November!

Quilty Details:

* Libs Elliott’s “Weight of Love” quilt pattern - started in a workshop with her back in 2015

* Approximately 65″ square finished

* Used a combination of Kona cotton and Cotton and Steel Basics

* Patchwork section is pieced with Y-seams

* Appliqued the pieced section on top of solid fabric; I didn’t cut out the back so it’s extra thick under the patchwork

* Straight-line quilted on my domestic with 1/2″ spacing, using Wonderfil 40-wt thread

* Backing and binding in Cotton and Steel basics

I’m so glad to have this long-time work in progress done! Do you have any projects like this that just take years? 

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designed this moth on eq8 and I’m happy with how it turned out! now to find a backing….