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[the-cricket-chirps]

Rebecca Davis (American)

Star of Lemoyne Quilt

ca. 1846

#Rebecca Davis #quilts #quiltblr #quilting #quilt maker #textiles #american art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrstyle #tumblr art #tumblrpictures #tumblrposts #women artists #beauty #quilters of tumblr #handmade quilt #quilt #quilt making

[lookingforcactus]

Went to a big quilting convention today and am feeling inspired so here's todays edition of

What the fuck do you mean that's a quilt??

Most people have no idea about how much craft goes into quilting or how much quilting as a craft, art, and even a science has been evolving in recent years. So here's my personal appreciation post

And btw the flat images do NOT even do these quilts justice, especially in terms of the absolutely amazing and detailed texture embroidery that a lot of quilters are using these days. Up close the texture and the sheer detail of many of them is just stunning

These are all from the Road to California quilt show 2023

1st Place: Portrait

Title: Sharing the Moment Maker: Hollis Chatelain Quilter: Hollis Chatelain Design Basis: Maker's Original Design African-American women are a powerful force in motivating their families and communities to vote. I wanted to create a piece about this and highlight the fact that African-American women did not receive the right to vote in all 50 states until 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed. I met Phyllis at a rally. I was drawn to her and asked if she would be my model. Without hesitation she said yes. She later brought her friend Loretta with her.

1st Place: Naturescape

Title: Augustinii Maker: Andrea Brokenshire Quilter: Andrea Brokenshire Design Basis: Maker's Original Design “Augustinii” is a blue/purple variety of rhododendron my momma planted within her forest garden. I was lucky to be home on when it was in bloom. When I see this quilt, I am reminded of my momma and how she loves to tend her garden and “grub in the dirt.”

1st Place: Pictorial

Title: Leap of Faith Maker: Kestrel Michaud Quilter: Kestrel Michaud Design Basis: Original design In this Steampunk fantasy world, men and women have taken to the skies on ships held aloft by hot air, ingenuity, and luck. Faith’s favorite past-time is bungee-jumping off the side of her airship, with Bubo, her pet clockwork owl. This quilt depicts the photo Faith took on her latest jump to test her brand-new camera and selfie stick.

2nd Place: Naturescape

Title: Homage to Birches Bare Maker: Jessica Noble Quilter: Jessica Noble Design Basis: Fabric recreation of Kesler Woodward's Birches Bare, acrylic on I fell in love with Kesler Woodward’s Birches Bare painting and knew I had to create it in fabric. I cut about 1,700 pattern pieces out of freezer paper and then fused fabric, through the fall of 2019 until the pandemic started. During this time, I homeschooled my two children and the quilt sat in quarantine. I quilted this freehand on my midarm in the winter of 2021. I managed to take the majority of the summer of 2022 on the binding.

2nd Place: Pictorial

Title: Toroweap Overlook Maker: Sandra Mollon Quilter: Sandra Mollon Design Basis: Derived from a photo Toroweap Overlook, in the Grand Canyon National Park, is an incredible view of the Colorado River. When John Slot sent me the photo to consider for an art quilt, I realized the complexity of the amount of the pieces it would require, but knew I had to do it. Raw edge fused, machine quilted, small amounts of media.

3rd Place: Pictorial

Title: Catch it Yuri! Maker: Hiroko Miyama and Masanobu Miyama Quilter: Hiroko Miyama Design Basis: Maker's Original Design Inspired by dogs’ action. Yuri, golden retriever big jumped to catch a ball and Ponta, mix hardly waited his turn. Dogs and girl were fused appliquéd.

Seriously can you believe these are all quilts!!! incredible amazing showstopping spectacular

#I said today's edition but this is in fact the only addition #so far! #might make another one when they put up the winners from this year #which will hopefully be in the next few days #quilting #quiltblr #fiber crafts #fabric art #fiber art #fibercraft #textiles #quilt art #quilt making #quilts #textile art #fibre arts

[ahedderick]

Nostalgia for yesteryear

Well, the Tumblr Booper-Fool's Day is very, very appropriate for the userbase. However, I more than a bit nostalgic for the crabs. Do-it-yourself it is, then!

This is a mix of top-stitching and applique techniques that might not go over very well in a formal quilt competition, but all my work is for home use only. I stitch according to my fickle heart.

Feel free to reblog and tag a friend to 'crab' them in addition to the Booping!

(He's shiiiiiiiiny,)

#april fool's day #artblr #artist #crab #time for crab #quilt #quiltblr #quilting #sewing sewblr #hexagonal decapod #he doesn't have the full number of legs because I have Limits!

[patronsaintofsofas]

Moomin quilts by Yoko Saito

#my posts #art #quilting #quiltblr #yoko saito #moomin

[christmasespast]

Finally remembered to get some pics of these quilts I made for my best friends and housemates :o) first pattern is called a pineapple block, second is Garden Snails by Pen + Paper patterns

#quilting #quiltblr #quilt #pineapple block #snail #sewing

[poppy-ghost]

finished quilt! used lots of my leftovers and scraps, and made the block pattern design myself lol. not sure if it's already a block or that i just based off an economy block but it was a lot of fun to put together 🩵

#quiltblr #quilting #sewing

[quiltingwitch]

An Exploration of Large Scale Foundation Paper Piece Quilt Designing

Aka

Cozy Swords So Big

I made this quilt for a sword enthusiast, I’m sure they would clock inaccurate sword proportions right away. It was important to me that the (non magical) swords be as proportionally accurate as possible. I based each blade to hilt ratio directly on historical or famous prop references (can you spot them?) and designed them to be life sized.

A very sweet boy’s tail for scale against an early pattern draft

The most challenging part of constructing this quilt was working on the RIDICULOUSLY long blades. Typically individual pieces of an FPP pattern are small and easily maneuvered. My largest blade pattern pieces were about 45 inches long, a design decision I would never inflict on anybody but myself.

The smallest blade- the only one I took photos of because the rest were way too overwhelming to document. The largest pieces were triple the length of this.

Designing the blades to be contained in a single piece of each pattern maximized precision in the parts of the designs that I really really wanted to be smooth and sleek.

The long blades were very hard to construct, it’s easy to end up with bubbled fabric on FPP pattern pieces so large. Glue stick and spray starch were critical here.

My only totally impossible sword was designed in a more traditional fpp kind of way, broken into many small pattern pieces. There was a lot more room for error in seam matching, so this block took me much longer to complete than any of the others. I redid quite a few seams to get as close as I could to perfect.

Overall I loved how these large scale FPP designs turned out. I think the result was worth the hassle of working with my comically large pattern pieces.

#the largest sword is approx five times my longest cat #or like 3 times counting his tail #quilting #textile art #textile arts #fiber art #sewing #quilt #quilts #art #quiltingwitch #foundation paper piecing #artists on tumblr #quiltblr #modern quilting #quilters of tumblr

[ditsyknits]

I finished it! I took the green quilt out on a little adventure today before it goes off to it’s new home tomorrow!

I’m sooo happy with the way this came out. I’m really glad I took the time to start over with the quilting. I think the end product shines 🧡💚

#quilting #quiltblr #handmade #artists on tumblr #handquilting #quilt #my quilt #my quilting #green diamond quilt #finished object #maybe doxxing myself with the last photo if you know you know

[quilterdyke]

newest quilt I made as my half of an art trade with my good pal @ehnoshima

#textile art #quilting #quiltblr #hand quilting #quilters of tumblr #it’s a pretty simple pattern i know but i’m proud of it i think it’s cute #my quilts #drews drama

[quiltffiti]

"Trans Rights Orange cat" Still needs binding With this complete I can truly say I am back in the saddle! Being a member of the trans community myself it brings me joy to know tags like this can exist around town in all their silly glory.

#art #fiber art #quiltblr #quilting #sewing #quilters of tumblr #graffiti #quilts #artists on tumblr #street art #transgender #trans pride #trans artist

[the-cricket-chirps]

Ellen Morton Littlejohn, Margaret Morton Bibb

Quilt, Star of Bethlehem pattern variation

ca. 1837–50

#Ellen Morton Littlejohn #Margaret Morton Bibb #quilting #quilt #quilt making #textiles #textile art #sewing #quilters of tumblr #quiltblr #women artists #needlecraft #modern art #art history #aesthetictumblr #tumblraesthetic #tumblrpic #tumblrpictures #tumblr art #quilters #quilt makers #beauty #beautiful art #art aesthetic #aesthetic #beautiful

[silvirub]

Mixed-media Tea bag Quilt

#recycled #teabag #art #recycledart #artdaily #journal #drawing #artwithoutwaste #watercolor #tea #mixedmedia #mixed media #quiltblr #quilting #quilters of tumblr #teabag quilt

[ahedderick]

*Whew!* I need one more square for each background. We had trouble laying it out because even using the whole center of the room we still had to squish them together somewhat. I feel like something it off-kilter with the dark blue rows, but I'm going to try to put some blocks together in sections and hopefully, if there's an error near the bottom, I will be able to figure out what it is while that part is still laid out on the floor in pieces.

#artists on tumblr #quilt #quilting #quiltblr #sewing #fish #sewing machine #fiber crafts

[charlisabeth]

The perks of working at a fabric shop

Last summer, I got a bunch of surplus fabric samples from my boss, saving them from the trash.

I knew I wanted to make a blanket from them right away and spent a good bit of time counting, sorting and planning the arrangement. I tried to spread the colours and different patterns as evenly as possible and went for an otherwise simple approach, as this was my first time quilting anything bigger than a pillowcase. It was at times super difficult to wrangle this under my sewing machine and handstitching the binding all around took forever. I might add some more intricate stitches on the individual rectangles at some point, but for now I really like how it turned out and it makes for a fun cover for my couch.

#sewing #patchwork #quilting #quiltblr #quilt #handmade #japanese fabric #japanese patterns #upcycling #sewblr #my posts #made by me #mine #home decor

[claypigeonpottery]

tailorbird is here to mend your life

#reserved #pottery #ceramics #ceramic #sgraffito #ceramic art #carving #bird art #bird #birds #tailorbird #sewing #sewblr #quiltblr

[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #284: Quilted Crow

Found here.

#crows #corvids #corvidae #birds #animals #art #arts n crafts #arts and crafts #quilt #quilting #textile art #quiltblr #fabric art #fall #autumn #fall aesthetic #autumn aesthetic #daily crows #crow queue #No Context Crow No. 284