#quilting

📍Joseph’s Coat is the 2023 Playing with Pincushion, to celebrate my websites 22nd Anniversary! 🥳
The pattern will be available online next week – a gift to Members for one month. 🎁

It will join the past pincushions… 🥰
Wouldn’t these be perfect pillows, for Barbie’s couch? 😁👏

#quilting #sewing #PlayingwithPuncushions #scraps #fabric #collection #teenytiny #Barbie #doll

One of the amazing Threads of Survival craftivism squares in the Quilted exhibition at #Huddersfield Art Gallery this month.

For some reason, it feels fitting to post it this evening.

#BorisJohnson #quilting #fiberarts

The June Featured Pattern of the Month:
Victoriana Sewing Kit 🧵🪡

Sew Pretty! 🥰💚

#quilting #sewing #handstitching #embroidery #pattern

Laid out a 15x18 6.5” block quilt today on the floor, by hand. This allowed me to balance the colors from the initially random distribution of blocks to locations. #Quilting #sewing

The Patchwork Baby Teddy Bear - instructions & template, is now available on my website! 😍🥰🍼👶

I 💚 Patchwork!

#quilting #sewing #patchwork #baby #TeddyBear

If you like novelty fabrics, with illustrations or a theme, have you tried the Tall Tales Block by Kate Basti? I have many fun fabrics (in small amounts) of animals and Eiffel Towers and whatever else tickled my fancy and they’re perfect for the pattern. These aren’t quite complete because they’re supposed to have strips on all sides—I will do one double wide one between the books when I sew them together. The pattern is on Etsy. Here are some Christmas themed books. #quilting #quilt

If you like #textiles or #fiberart and are anywhere near #WestYorkshire, I'd heartily recommend checking out http://woveninkirklees.co.uk/

There are 100+ events happening, the vast majority of which are free: workshops, talks, walks, exhibitions, working mill tours...

The #Quilting exhibition includes political craftivism, quilts made collaboratively by local communities, and work by artists - both traditional and abstract. Gorgeous work!

Lots of natural #dyeing and fun repair sessions too.

Two years ago & new to the area, I volunteered on some local walks as part of the textile festival, WOVEN in Kirklees. A conversation I had on one of those walks has directly led my life down a different path that I could have ever predicted & spawned a new career.

Two years on, I've helped put together this year's festival. We launched on Saturday with a day long fashion + music fest in Dewsbury (exhausting fun!) and this week, I'm helping to install a #Quilting exhibition in #Huddersfield.

Beginner’s Sampler Online Class
⭐️ 6 weeks - July 5th to August 9th
⭐️ Open to Victoriana Quilt Designs Members
⭐️ Free pattern included!
⭐️ Learn basic quilting techniques while making this pretty wall hanging.

#quilting #sewing #beginner #pattern #membership #OnlineClass

Figured out a big #quilting trick tonight: if two blocks aren't #sewing together nicely, rip, and re-sew, but this time put the block which was on top, on the bottom - then assembly works aka consistent seam-allowance, no ripples, and no stretching of one or the other fabric.

Behold!! I am inworld in #SecondLife on my desktop computer for the first time in what seems like months!!!
Now listening to Fuzzball Ortega's radio show on https://scifi.radio/ on my parcel, and just in time for Relay Weekend!!! I am so, SO happy.

My desktop will now live in my RL guestroom, along with all my sewing stuff (I had been learning to do #quilting before the #homerenovation project started in February).

Time to reconnect with my #RelayinSecondLife team the #SteelheadSalmons and kick some butt.

This is the random distribution of 41 colors (named by number) across 15 columns and 18 rows of a (Queen-size) quilt. From this initial placement I'll color balance then sew. #quilting #sewing

What a lovely treat, to begin my day… 🦌
I rarely get to see the deer that live in this forest. 🥰
You can hear the running water in the ditch, from the much needed rain, that fell the past few days 👏 & at the end, the deer barking, to warn the others, a human was spotted.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtHYgi5PhPO/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
(Sorry - Wouldn’t let me upload it here 😢)

#quilting #sewing #nature #ForestLiving #deer

I could exercise restraint, pursue elegance and a monochromatic wardrobe or I could be true to myself, embrace chaos, and spend far too many hours quilting the gold fake silk lining of the floral biker jacket I'm making.

Video out tomorrow over on NESS: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9FlQunzsD0yVvHd2hjgxQ

#quilting #sewing #enby #NonBinaryFinery

Great car trip project. No sewing. Check it out. Like, comment, subscribe, boost. Buy me a cuppa tea if you are so inclined.

https://youtu.be/y_viGgE0970

#quilting
#vacation
#roadTrip
#dollarStore
#sideHustle

I finally finished this quilt. Fabric from 1 pack of charm squares that my mother gave me for my birthday 2 years ago; some of my Dad’s shirts (I still have so much fabric from these despite having used them in multiple quilts! There is so much fabric in a man’s shirt!); a thrifted sheet; some Toile de Jouy from somewhere (Besançon?); and scraps. The best sort of improvised quilt! #recycledmaterials #recycledfabric
#quilt #quilting #creative #creativity #creativetoots #vintagesewingmachine

Here’s the alphabet baby quilt with my linocut alphabet blocks! I managed to do this pretty quickly with fabric in my stash.

I do like a pieced quilt back and I wanted to use the playful world map. I’ve had the fabric since my son was a baby. Plus I thought I would use the extra fabric with my zebra linocuts (leftover from when I made Mom a pillow).

#linocut #printmaking #quilt #quilting #babyQuilt #alphabet #textilePrinting #blockPrinting #MastoArt

Am very happy to see rain here in Nova Scotia, which will help the out of control fires - and minimize the risk throughout the province. 👏😊

I’ll be playing with fabric… 🥰

Happy Stitching! 🪡🧵❤️

#quilting #sewing #fabric

🎈22nd Anniversary Special 🥳

Purchase your Victoriana Quilt Designs Membership this month & receive all of the Playing with Pincushions patterns — including the newest one I previewed a few days ago! 💚

🎁 Details on the website….

#quilting #sewing #PlayingwithPuncushions #scraps #fabric #collection #applique #teenytiny

FEDIAUCTION!!!!!!

I am auctioning off this quilt (story in next comment). All funds raised will go to Stacey Abrahms Fair Fight to protect democracy. Winner will have the quilt shipped to them US priority mail.

How to participate:
1. Reply to THIS post ONLY with your bid.
2. Any bids as replies to replies to this Post might not get seen.
3. U.S. only (due to shipping costs).

Contest runs June to June 30.

Boost liberally.

#fediAuction
#quilting
#Democracy

Happy June!
This is a June 1967 calendar page from Mabel Lucie Attwell. 🥰

I ❤️ Patchwork.

#quilting #knitting #tbt

5 snowflakes done and just one more to go. Then I get to start on the warming stripes border.
#Quilting

💚 …this — and finally into…

#quilting #sewing #PlayingwithPuncushions #scraps #fabric #collection #applique #teenytiny

Convergence of two of my favorite things: #quilting on my fabulous sewing machine and #Apple!

I decided to “whip up” an alphabet baby quilt. I don’t know if it’s reasonable for me, at least, to think that I can whip up any quilt, but baby quilts are small, I already have a collection of carved alphabet lino blocks. I’m avoiding any curves or y-seam and using fabric from my stash. Plus I have textile block printing ink. Wish me luck!

#printmaking #alphabet #linocut #textilePrinting #lettering #blockPrinting #babyQuilt #wip #quilting #stashBusting #MastoArt

I spent the morning designing and prototyping this glue stick cap/nozzle combo that allows you to apply glue more precisely. The aim is to replace expensive glue 'pens' used in English Paper Piecing (https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-english-paper-piecing-4588714)

From this prototype I've learned that a friction fit isn't strong enough to hold the cap on while dispensing glue. Furthermore, if you try to get around this by holding the cap down, the print fails before the glue comes out.

To remedy the first problem I'm going to try a glue stick with a screw-on cap. The second will require me to abandon the use of vase-mode for the print (boo!) so that I can make the walls thicker.

#3Dprinting #quilting

Graduation weekend is finally here. I was able to gift this beautiful honor star quilt to a Lakota Sioux high school graduate this weekend. He was speechless but so deserving. #quilting

Ta-da! Wonky nine patch garden quilts. A quilter pitched this block as a way to use up not-so-favourite fabrics and those that may not play well with others. I made two quilts and this week practised using my floating foot to free motion quilt them. They were as fast and fun to quilt as they were to piece! #quilt #quilting

💚 …this – into…

#quilting #sewing #PlayingwithPuncushions #scraps #fabric #collection #applique #teenytiny

My hand-stitched mitred-corner game is weak. I’ve now sewn six in my life though so it’s to be expected - perfection is in view. #sewing #quilting

💚 Turning this – into…

#quilting #sewing #PlayingwithPuncushions #scraps #fabric #collection

Dear world, I am making handquilting progress on the Stargate Universe quilt. #quilting #handquilting #Stargate #StargateUniverse #textileart

Slices of Life was the Members Series quilt in 2006 - celebrating fruits! 🍎🍐🍊🍋🍌🍉🍇🍓🍈🍒🍑🍍🥝🥰👏❤️💚

The complete pattern is still available exclusively on the Victoriana Quilt Designs website here:
https://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.com/VictorianaQuilters/PatternPage/SlicesofLife/SlicesofLife.htm

#quilting #sewing #tbt #fruit

Almost half-way done blind-stitching 176” of quilt binding #sewing #quilting

📍It’s that time of year, that I start planning the next pincushion, to add to my collection. 👏

I wonder what the 2023 version will be… 🤔💚

#quilting #sewing #pincushions #collection

I made this quilt for my grandson seven years ago. I just rescued it from his cat’s bed to take to a quilting workshop #geesbend , for show and tell. #quilting #quiltersofmastodon

Here's a #FollowFriday of fediversians with #craft related blogs:

@inherentlee is at https://leecat.art/ with a lot of different creative things

@emery is at https://www.knittingpirate.com/ with, of course, #knitting (and #spinning!)

@BritishKoalaTea is at https://www.quantumtea.com/ with knitting and #weaving and whatnot.

@gannet is at https://gannetdesigns.com/ with fiber arts (I like the coded knitting)

@BenitaSkinner is at https://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.com/ with #quilting

Continued...

This past week I visited where I used to live. I got to watch as the sailboats lazily cruised around the harbor...such a wonderful sight on a sunny afternoon! I created this image when I got home. It's part of my series of artwork with a quilted effect. (Not a real quilt!)

Art is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/sailing-the-ocean-blue-quilted-effect-peggy-collins.html

#sailing #ocean #mountains #art #artist #blue #quilting #colorful #color #AYearForArt #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins

And finally, because we've used coloured threads for the sashiko on the front...

...and have stitched through the batting and backing...

we get a series of beautiful patterns on the rear of the quilt as well.

This was a lovely collaborative project. I hope to do more quilting soon.

THREAD 9/9

#origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

The sashiko stitching adds so much beautiful detail.

It draws the eye to new patterns within the whole, and links sections through (here it comes...) a common thread.

Tessa Layzelle, textile artist, take a bow.

https://www.instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/

THREAD 8/x

#origami #cyanotype #stitchcraft #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

Using your sewing skills (or, in this case, with the collaboration of someone far more skilled than myself), the 9 cyanotype panels were joined together.

Cotton batting and a white rear panel were tacked in place.

To join the front and rear, lines of the pattern were picked out in hand-stiched sashiko...

THREAD 7/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

As I've shown previously, you can also use cyanotype to custom dye some thread.

For this quilt, we used a mix of plain white, speckled blue, and full blue threads.

THREAD 6/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

After you've exposed the print, wash the fabric well.

You get (somewhat obviously) a negative version - or should that be a positive version? - of the original cyanotype.

Now, repeat until you have the required number of printed fabric pieces.

Two prints shown here.

I used 9 for a 3x3 quilt.

THREAD 5/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

Now all you need is some cyanotype coated fabric.

I used squares of cotton cut slightly larger than the image. This gives room for seams.

Put the negative on the fabric, squeeze everything together (I used a contact frame) and expose in the sun.

THREAD 4/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko #CameralessPhotography

You can use tissue paper cyanotypes as paper negatives to print from.

You can also speed up the exposure time a little by doing what Victorian photographers used to do with their paper negatives.

You can oil it.

This gives it a bit more transparency, as you can ... ahem... clearly see.

THREAD 3/x

#origami #cyanotype #transparent #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko
#CameralessPhotography

After exposure, development and drying, the image becomes a 'metamorphogram', a cyanotype which was exposed in one form but visualised as another.

Metamorphograms are both subject and object. It takes a picture of itself as a tato. Unfolding reveals that picture.

Layers in the paper become shades of blue and white

THREAD 2/x

#origami #cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko

Here's how I made a quilt, using cyanotype paper negatives to print the fabric, in collaboration with tetxile artist Tessa Layzelle (on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tessa__layzelle/)

It all started with a Tato - an origami 'purse' folded from cyanotype-coated archival tissue paper.

THREAD 1/x

#origami #cyanotype #metamorphogram #blueprint #tato #quilt #PaperFolding #PaperNegative #tissuepaper #octagon #geometric #quilting #sashiko

Finished the baby quilt last night! Hurray! #quilting #photo

Slowly collecting new hobbies to do after I submit my thesis. I've got #MineCraft and #Quilting and getting my #Cooking #Mojo back. Maybe also #LookingForWork but hobbies first! Suggestions?

#PhDLife #Soon #Hobbies

I love making quilts for dogs so much 🥰😂😊🐕

This is a quilted panel named “data point” by Judy Gauthier with some borders from my stash. The backing is gray minky.

My customer is Stormy the Corgi who likes cuddling in this chair to be near me while I sew.

#Quilting #DogsOfMastodon