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
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Replacement pillowcase: FINISHED.
I went with the hand of glory for a motif because it was thought to paralyze or put people to sleep, and what's better for a pillow?
This is the most beading I've ever done in a project and it was really satisfying.
The rhinestone trim though? A real nightmare. Hated it. Tedious. Awful.
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A pastel dream
Woman with a Parasol - Claude Monet
Pattern by TheStitchPatterns on Etsy
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So as promised, I drew Kakashi on my sweater 😁 this is the front
My boobs are making his hair look fluffier 😂
And this is the back
Process is under the cut you know, in case I can magically manifest an AI to draw on my clothes for me too 🙄
I'm not sure if this counts as a process tbh because I get so engrossed while working and forget to take a picture of every step but I managed to take 3 pictures, yay!
So I started by drawing it on paper first so I would know what I'm going to do and have a clear picture of it
Then I drew the lines on the sweater, this was the most terrifying step because these are permanent colors, there's no room for mistakes, no eraser, adjusting or editing anything if I wanted to change something so I had to focus 100% on drawing every little line
Then I started coloring over it
Until I reached the desired result XD
The back didn't really have a process, I just started right away, it was simple enough not to need drawing a sketch or lines first
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Sewed and embroidered my own red envelope this year. Did a couching stitch with a metallic gold thread. I don't know if I'll keep doing this for the next 11 years. We'll see!
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I aim for Raylan Givens’ level of chill. I always give too many hoots. Also, please watch Justified: City Primeval. Having Raylan back on the screen is a gift.
Also please rewatch OG Justified. Just to be thorough.
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