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**InarticulateQuilter** @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3h

InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art

Somedays you get out of your early morning appointment sooner than you expect and, not knowing what else to do with your day, you make a new bag

I had everything in stash except elastic trim, so that’s a purple hair band that I Sharpied black

Nothing’s quilted either, since that would have made it a two-day project

Pattern:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rfHaolyNaL0&t=29s&pp=2AEdkAIB

Mini tote sewn from a black Grunge fabric (the center panel) and multi-green succulent canvas (each side panel.) It has two handles and a long shoulder strap. The black panel is a secret pocket closed with a green button and elastic loop.

#Quilting #Sewing #Handbag

**Steggy** @steggy@sunny.garden · 2d

Steggy @steggy@sunny.garden

Finished my second ever quilt top! Taking to a friend who will long arm quilt it at some later point.

A finished quilt top made with batik fabric. It has long vertical strips of batik fabric in cream, beige and light shades of blue. Across the middle are smaller stacked horizontal strips in dark blue, navy and brown shades, and then the vertical strips continue below. There is a thin inner border in cream and a wider outer border in brown and tan batik with blue squares at the corners.

#quilting #quilt #sewing

**InarticulateQuilter** @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 2d

InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art

My Ukraine quilt top is finished!

These are the smallest Word Play letters I’ve ever done. Somehow, without measuring, I pieced that bottom line so that it was exactly 48” - the same width as the sunflower rows. I think it was meant to be

(Thx to @shouldhavezagged.com for the suggestion as to where the words should go)

Scrappy blue and yellow sunflower-themed quilt top displayed in full on a design wall. The center of the quilt consists of 16 wonkily pieced sunflower blocks laid out in 4 rows of 4. Between the third and fourth row there is a section of wonkily pieced letters that reads “put seeds in your pockets so they grow where you fall.” A thin yellow border surrounds this part of the quilt, separating it from a wider final border pieced from blue fabric scraps.

#Quilting #InarticulateSeeds

**Benita Skinner** @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social · 3d

Benita Skinner @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social

Those vinyl packages, that pillowcases come in, are perfect for taking your stitching on the road.

#quilting #sewing #embroidery

**InarticulateQuilter** @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 3d

InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art

Quilt activism in the news -

"Who would you be if you had the freedom to live into the fullness of who you are?

That’s the question a new art installation put to transgender and nonbinary Americans across the country, asking them to weave all their joys, frustrations and hopes into more than 250 panels that will form a massive quilt"

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/us/gallery/trans-visibility-freedom-to-be-quilt/index.html

CNN · 4dTrans and nonbinary Americans embrace joy as resistance in new ‘Freedom to Be’ quiltBy Chelsea Bailey

#Quilting #QuiltingNews #Craftivism

**Alun Kirby** @cyanotype@zirk.us · 3d

Alun Kirby @cyanotype@zirk.us

'American Seams'

Short (15 min) film about quilters and quilting in the American west, from Psyche.

https://psyche.co/films/beauty-is-woven-into-everyday-life-for-the-quilters-of-the-american-west

PsycheAmerican seams | Psyche FilmsThe stories of three quilters interweave to form an intimate portrait of women’s creativity and resilience in the American West

#psyche #quilt #quilts

**Magic Cauldron** @Magic_Cauldron@treehouse.technopagans.de · 4d

Magic Cauldron @Magic_Cauldron@treehouse.technopagans.de

Playing DnD online with a lovely group and doing (like always) some stitching along the way. I love it, when it goes from mostly 2D to 3D within a few stitches.

#SlowStitching #Quilt #Quilting #nähen #sewing #DnD

@sewing
@fiberarts

Blue fabric with a small clolourful hexie flower. A needle is poked into the fabric, A black/copper keybord lurks in the background.

**Benita Skinner** @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social · 4d

Benita Skinner @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social

The stem stitch is the perfect embroidery stitch for curves.

#quilting #sewing #embroidery

**Anna's Crafts** @annascrafts@mastodon.online · 5d

Anna's Crafts @annascrafts@mastodon.online

Buying cheap is always a risk. Sometimes it works out, other times you end up with a headache.

Bought a cheap set of acrylic quilt templates, turns out one of the pieces as not fully symmetric (the largest one), preventing me from making a proper square of the pieces.

Now I made myself a set of paper templates that are fully symmetric, perhaps that will work better.

To the left, three clear acrylic templates on a black surface. To the right is a sewn test made from those templates. The middle (kind of shaped as a cats iris) and small corners (lower left and upper right) are also black. The remaining space is in a patterned fabric in yellows and orange tones.

Showcasing that the largest piece out of three is not fully symmetric. The black and the blue line should have matched up. I traced them with first side A towards paper and the other with side B towards paper.

#quiltingTemplates #quilting #sewing

**Cognissart** @cognissart@mastodon.art · 5d

Cognissart @cognissart@mastodon.art

I have framed my recent #quilting inspired studies and will be showing them at the upcoming @peakdistrictartisans #SpringArtFair 12/13 April. They were all supposed to be the same size but unfortunately I picked up two different sizes of Aida fabric for them so the blue one is a bit bigger You live and learn!
@fibrearts
@textilearts
@embroidery

A square framed stitched artwork composed of 9 smaller squares stitched in the log cabin quilt block pattern. Colours of turquoise and yellow. Held in ther artist's hand for scale, 5x5 inch white frame

Another framed stitched artwork in the same style, this time in blue and grey colours

Another framed stitched artwork in the same style, this time in orange and yellow colours. Viewed on an angle to show texture

#LogCabin #Art #FineArtInStitch

**InarticulateQuilter** @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · 6d

InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art

There've been a lot of articles about the Gee's Bend Airing of the Quilts exhibit lately, but I like how this one focuses on letting a single quilter, Mary Lee Bendolph, speak

https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2025/03/mary-lee-bendolph-one-of-the-most-revered-gees-bend-quiltmakers/

The Birmingham Times · Mar 28Meet Mary Lee Bendolph: One of the Most Revered Gee’s Bend Quiltmakerssoulsgrowndeep.org Mary Lee Bendolph is one of the best-known and most revered Gee’s Bend quiltmakers. Her mother was Aolar Carson Mosely who was taught to quilt by her mother. From a young age, sh…

#Quilting #QuiltingNews

**Benita Skinner** @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social · 6d

Benita Skinner @BenitaSkinner@mastodon.social

Each time I’ve made something interesting for my Let’s Play mini quilt pieces, I want to add them to my Bits & Bobs collage quilt, too!
I’m weaving more rick rack, today…

#quilting #sewing #handstitching

**Dawn Lesley Stewart** @DawnStewart@mastodon.art · 6d

Dawn Lesley Stewart @DawnStewart@mastodon.art

So much fun! Yesterday a friend and I went to a giant craft swap. I brought a reusable bag and filled it with fabric, yarn, patterns and other crafty treasure. All for free. For more details please visit my quilting blog https://www.dlstewart.com/blog/DawnsQuiltingRoom.htm Enjoy a fantastic day! #quilting #sewing

My craft swap finds ... fabric, yarn and a new cutting board. Visit my website to see my other treasure. www.dlstewart.com

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**Angela Henry** @Sqlswimmer@dataplatform.social · Mar 29

Mar 29

Angela Henry @Sqlswimmer@dataplatform.social

This is the first time I’ve used a log cabin pattern. I saw this particular pattern in an issue of QuiltMaker from my mom’s stash. It was made with holiday colors but I wanted something for every day. I love how easy this was and how it turned out. I downsized it from 70in x 85in to 48in x 58in

I’m calling it Wrapped Up because I think it looks like a prettily wrapped present

Quilt top made from blues, purples, and yellow.

#quilting

**InarticulateQuilter** @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art · Mar 28

Mar 28

InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter@mastodon.art

Too many options!

Ukraine sunflower quilt on a design wall. There are 16 wonky sunflower blocks in 4 rows of 4. This layout has 2 rows above and 2 below a center section of pieced letters that read

put seeds
in your pockets
so they grow
where you fall

Ukraine sunflower quilt on a design wall. There are 16 wonky sunflower blocks in 4 rows of 4. This layout has 1 row of sunflowers, then pieced letters that read

put seeds
in your pockets

then 2 rows above pieced letters that read

so they grow
where you fall

and a final row of sunflower blocks.

Ukraine sunflower quilt on a design wall. There are 16 wonky sunflower blocks in 4 rows of 4. This layout has 1 row above a section of pieced letters that read

put seeds
in your pockets
so they grow
where you fall

and 3 rows of blocks below

Ukraine sunflower quilt on a design wall. There are 16 wonky sunflower blocks in 4 rows of 4. This layout has 2 rows above and 2 below with a center section of pieced letters that read

put seeds in your pockets
so they grow where you fall

#Quilting #InarticulateSeeds

**jaja** @jaimeJ@social.seattle.wa.us · Mar 27

Mar 27

jaja @jaimeJ@social.seattle.wa.us

"Thursday After Thunder" teableau for 03/27/25

There was a wild storm last night- momentous lightning, ground-shaking thunder, hard rain- that caught houses on fire & blew out windows. Yet today, it's as if nothing at all occurred, just sedate calm all around. Storms be that way.