#what to quilt next

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! Which quilt should I work on next? I went to some new (to me) quilt shops and now I have a few options

1. Finally quilt the pink and green watercolor floral chevron quilt top (in my defense, I only got the backing fabric today)

2. Finally quilt the rainbow triangle quilt (I have no defense I’ve had the backing fabric for a while lol)

3. Make a purple bee layer cake quilt

4. Make a SUPER COLORFUL rainbow batik jelly roll quilt and finally use up the backing fabric I originally bought for the rainbow triangle quilt and then my grandma was like “no you can’t use it for that”

#what to quilt next #options!! I’m so excited #the local quilt shops two towns over are SO COOL #Like. the local local quilt shop is nice #but the fabrics tend to be a little more…traditional? #one of the other quilt shops is called ‘the bright quilt shop’ by their customers #unsurprisingly I LOVED the bright quilt shop #and the other quilt shop had fat quarters everywhere and a fabric line I’ve had in my online shopping cart like five times but not bought #so colorful so cool I’m so happy they exist

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

you know you're going wrong when your hobby starts requiring you to do division

#like cou ting FINE #addition if i MUST #but division??? whats next??? algebra???? geometry??!??! #<- thats just quilting #(im trying to make a cross stitch pattern and it is going SLOWLY) #there has to be a better way to do this lmao #where the fuck is my graph paper

[viciousewe]

I made this dress! Sewn! Entirely by hand and then took it to the renn faire in august! And then banished to a corner because I fucked up the cuff size and it was too small to do buttons the regular way! But then I figured out I could do a loop instead of a buttonhole and it would work and it did! Hooray!!! I can start a new sewing project!!!! Too bad my only pics of it are all obscured by my mildly insane jewelry and accessories.

#the fit is lil wonky #because this is a self drafted zero waste project and messed up the drafting just a lil #I think this will be an errands dress becuase the pockets are what drag the neckline down my shoulders #and also they are almost too small for my hands because I forgot to add seam allowance :( #I’ve started a new dress and I made damn sure there was seam allowance and it does fit my phone but I also think I’ll make the pockets #bigger next time #who knows when next time will be tho! #I am also hand piecing and sewing a quilt so that will take all the forseeable time #this dress is made entirely of some black cotton in my stash and now that I am quilting #kinda wish I had that black poplin for this project lol #sewing #handsewing #handmade #hand sewn

[wickedhawtwexler]

people who think money can't buy happiness have clearly never purchased crafting supplies

#i am living one quilting project to the next right now #i'm using stuff i already have because i love doing scrappy/stash buster projects but i'm shopping for more supplies rn #and oh boy. what a high. what a rush. i love you crafting supplies my best friend crafting supplies #m.txt

[skin-slave]

Yaz's first Pride!!!!

Yes, Sammy got her that shirt.

#camp cretaceous #pride #sammy loves the parade so much #she wants to meet everyone #yaz cried at the quilt display #and intervened when one of sammys friends was being told to leave #has no idea what terfs are but knows an asshole when she sees one #took a brochure from the organizers table #maybe theyll need security next year #she doesnt have everything figured out and maybe she never will and thats ok #she can find her place in the community just as yaz #a wild hc appears #pixel stuff

[completely-zoned-out]

So it's mother's day and instead of making my mum a "normal" card, I decided that I would make her a card congratulating her for *finally* finishing the quilt she started 18 years ago (life got in the way lol). Not gonna lie, I'm kinda proud of how it turned out

^^ the card vs the quilt

I love making silly little cards. I even included a joke about giving her a "paper pieced quilt" because I'm pretty sure that's a real thing (I realise I'm not as funny as I think I am)

#honestly if I could get a job where I made silly little cards I would be over the moon #I get such a kick out of making them #or making something that will put a smile on someone's face #I know that sounds really stupid but I honestly love it so much #but also fair play to Mum for finishing the quilt! #she only started to properly work on it a few years ago I think? #and she's had absolutely no idea what she's been doing the whole time ahaha #it was v important to me that I included the trim around the outside of the quilt that she made far too thin but simultaneously too long #she's also already started to plan her next quilt lol #but she's started to crochet a blanket so I don't think she'll be starting for a while lol #anyway this was fun to make but now my fingers are all blue and sticky :( #zonedout.thoughts #my silly little doodles

[alliluyevas]

Orderville—former home of a 19th century Mormon compound, current home of a whole lot of antique books

#I was obsessed w the antique store you literally rang the buzzer and this man came out his house next door and let us into what was #essentially a large shed full of cool old books and random junk. god bless #I purchased 2 vintage cookbooks a book about Mormon quilting and the RLDS Joseph Smith translated Bible for nine dollars #NO idea how a RLDS book ended up in Utah #Julia in Utah 2023

[bigfishthemusical]

my vision.

#need to go buy more fabric for the shirt part. but I have what I need for the quilted part. #and I have a shirt I want to base the pattern off of. so maybe this will be my next sewing project 😌

[tj-crochets]

The rainbow sudoku baby quilt top is done!

This one is named that because it’s nine fabrics and I used a completed sudoku to determine how to arrange the squares

#sewing #handmade #quilting wip #rainbow sudoku baby quilt #I’m not sure what to sew next?

[lazyfox411]

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#little quilt is finally done!!! #im so happy its over lmao but also was lots of fun #im def out of practice😬 but i learned some tips for next time #aka what not to do lmao #i may post some pics👀 #does anybody want to see lol #its like. obviously homemade lol but its made with love😂 #my first big sewing project in a long time lol #life with shannon

[depresseddepot]

I'm making a quilt rn for functional purposes rather than fandom purposes but I might fuck around and make another alien isolation quilt lmao

#how hard do you think it would be to find a clean still of sevastopol and then pay someone to print it onto fabric #so i can then applique it onto a quilt top. asking for a friend #WAIT. O MY FUCKING HOD #WHAT IF I FABRIC PRINTED A STILL OF AMANDA RIPLEY FLOATING IN SPACE AT THE END OF THE GAME #AND ITS A TINY FIGURE IN THE MIDDLE OF A GIANT SPACE QUILT #OHHHH MY GOD #screw the bookshelf quilt i was planning. yhat sounds so cool #quilting fucks so hard dude im SO EXCITED #THATS WHAT NEXT. SPACE QUILT W A LITTLE AMANDA IN THE MIDDLE #maybe jupiter in yhe corner.....h my goddd

[wickedhawtwexler]

not to brag but i'm getting soooo much done today despite being off my adhd meds 💅

#the key is to Not Stop Moving No Matter What #also having a soundtrack of bangers in the background #i organized my music books then worked on one of my quilted pillow projects #then broke the needle on my sewing machine then fixed it then finished that pillow top & now i'm working on the other side #AND it's only 11am. please clap #i'm gonna bounce around my apartment for another 2-3 hours Completing Tasks then crash and spend the rest of the day on my couch #and i think that's sexy and valid of me #i'm gonna contact my new doctor's office tomorrow and see if they've gotten my labwork results so they can prescribe me meds tho #i have a huuuuge deadline next monday and i don't have enough meds to get me through the work week 🫠 #m.txt

[longingforacultparty]

maybe once ive finished cleaning my apartment ill start trying to sew again

#the bin #i dont have very much fabric tho #i had a bunch but its all still in ohio :/ #maybe i can get my sister to take me to get some on monday from a thrift store or smth. prob not tho #its kinda hard to find cheap fabric not in person getting lucky tho #the only thing easy to find is quilting squares which doenst work for what i want unless i sew them all together which i could do #maybe ill do that. itd be cute #theres a lot of cheap stuff on facebook marketplace. my sister is off all of next week so maybe we could go pick some up then #as long as we dont get kicked out of our apartment i will have some spare money to get some #i just really want to make some stuff #sewing squares togetehr would prob be goid practice anyway and be cute for clothes. i lil annoying to make clothes out of opposed to #a single flat piece of fabric but still not bad i think #maybe ill make a pattern out of the 1 long skirt i have and make a bunch more. illjust need smth soft for teh inner layer

[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

#climate change #climate action #climate crisis #climate hope #solarpunk #hopepunk #hope posting #community building #ecosystem #ecosystem restoration #forest fire #fire prevention #flood #flood prevention #harvest #harvest festival #regenerative agriculture #modern farming #water conservation #meteorology #festival #not news #hope #climate optimism

[asteralien]

true to form i drastically underestimated how much fabric i need for my ace jon quilt so now i just have to sit here clawing at the walls until joann ships my extra yardage bc the store in town didn’t have enough. being a stupid bitch who is also a cheapskate is such a bad combo if you’re going to be a quilter but here i am making it work, just a lot slower than most and with more shipping costs

#on the bright side: I felt really competent last night constructing the pattern for the secondary block #the fanartist who drew that quilt knew what they were doing SO much it was really easy to find the measurements #but im still a little impressed with my diagramming/math skills #but yeah! back to the cutting board for another 3 hours of very poor rotary cutter form #mythtakes #quilting tag #in the meantime i HAVE to figure out what im doing for michael’s quilt bc that has to come next

[lovebugism]

eddie x shy!reader who has never been kissed before? 🥺

hope u like it :D — you ask eddie why he didn't kiss you last night (shy!fem!r, hurt/comfort, established relationship, 1k)

The night after Steve’s big house party, you wake up on the floor of Eddie’s room. He’d wanted you to take the bed, of course, but you refused to let him sleep alone. The two of you ended up sleeping right next to the mattress, as lovesick as you are stubborn.

His body is warm next to yours — a furnace that warms the quilt under your body and the comforter thrown over you. He’s lying on his stomach with his face shoved into the pillow. Hair wild and mouth open and so, so far away. You feel the distance like a heavy weight on your chest.

Eddie’s breath hitches in his throat when he rouses. His eyes flutter open, and you squeeze yours shut tight. You pretend to be asleep while he stretches his tired limbs. “I know you’re awake, you loon,” he teases through a yawn.

You smile despite yourself, peeking one eye open to find him already looking at you. His curly bangs are frizzed over his forehead. His chocolate button gaze is softly swollen with slumber. He’s sleep-drenched and utterly beautiful.

“No, I’m not,” you insist.

“Oh, yeah?” he huffs and turns onto his side, shifting closer to you. He sighs in contentment when his warm feet entwine with your colder ones. “Sorry, then. Don’t let me disturb your beauty rest, doll.”

He struggles to hold his eyes open, and your tired smile widens. Your hands tremble with the longing to reach for him — to smooth back the curls sticking to his jaw and to cradle his cheek in your palm — but you don’t let yourself. You cage them under your head and crumble beneath the weight of your yearning.

“Do you feel okay?” you ask.

“Yeah,” he answers, slurring slightly as he wakes. “I didn’t drink much ‘cause I knew I had to drive us home.”

He’d partied for an hour or more, soaking in the sunlight of everyone’s drunken attention. You were content just watching him. One painfully awkward exchange on the dancefloor later — involving an almost kiss that ended up as a friendly peck on your cheek — Eddie started to sober up. He scarfed down water and bread and tried to keep a tipsy Robin Buckley from getting into trouble.

“Do you feel okay?” Eddie wonders upon your silence.

“Mhmm.”

“Then what’s this look for, huh?” His hand rises from beneath the blanket and migrates to your face. He runs a gentle finger over the distant frown between your furrowed brows you didn’t realize was there.

“‘Cause you made me sleep on the floor all night,” you tease in a hushed tone.

He scoffs. “I wanted you to take the bed.”

“And Iwanted you to sleep in the bed with me.”

Eddie’s quiet laugh fills the dim bedroom. His crooked smile is quieter. “I just didn’t wanna make you uncomfortable, babe,” he confesses.

“Well, it wouldn’t’ve,” you murmur, gaze averted and half-shut. You busy your fidgeting hand with a rogue thread on the pillow beneath you. You wrap it around your pointer finger until the tip of it blooms a deeper shade.

“Good to know,” he smiles.

“Is that why…” The words get caught in your throat, and you trail off. You don’t bother to finish your sentence. You were barely brave enough to start it, anyway.

“Is that why what?”

You shake your head against the pillow. “Nothing.”

“No, c’mon,” Eddie croons, shifting again until his head’s on the very edge of his pillow, closer now to yours. He flashes you a soft, well-meaning smile. “Finish what you were gonna say…” he lilts quietly.

You swallow hard. “Is that why you didn’t wanna kiss me last night?”

Eddie’s breath catches for a moment. He exhales a forced laugh and musters a wavering smile. “You caught that, huh?”

“Kinda.”

“Sorry…” He doesn’t know what else to say — how to say that he’s head over heels in love with you and that he’s just a total dumbass. It’s somehow easier to apologize for being both.

“It’s no big deal,” you shrug, even though the thought has plagued your mind for nearly twelve hours now. “I just— I wasn’t sure if you, like, never wanted to kiss me ever, you know?”

“I wanna kiss you all the time,” he blurts with a scoffed laugh.

Your brows pinch. Your sheepish eyes flit between both his cinnamon ones. “Then why don’t you?”

“‘Cause I want you to feel comfortable around me,” he shrugs. “And I don’t wanna make you— you know— feel like I only want you around to be all over you all the time.”

You’re made of something softer than that, Eddie figures. You were delicate, like flower petals and early spring. He wants to treat you just as gently. He loves you so hard he’s scared he’ll break you.

“Well, sometimes I want you to be all over me,” you admit in a faint murmur, eyes sparkling and lips quirking.

Eddie grins wide. You have no idea that you’ve just unleashed a pandora’s box of his affection. Now that he’s got your permission to touch you, he’s not sure if he’ll ever stop.

“Noted,” he nods, shifting somehow closer until you’re sharing the same pillow. “What about now then, huh? Want me to be all over you— morning breath and all?”

You peer at him with doe eyes, firm and unblinking. “Want you all the time, Eds.”

“Good.”

He kisses you then, a gentle peck you didn’t know someone as brash as him was capable of. His plush lips press gently against yours, in a fleeting moment you grieve the second he pulls away. 

When he leans softly back to make sure you’re okay — to be certain that you still want more of him — you beat him to the punch. You chase him as he goes, caging his mouth in a deeper kiss that tastes only faintly of sleep. Your exhaled sighs fan together. Your lips click gently when you pull away.

“Woah,” you hear Eddie mumble.

It takes you a moment or more to open your eyes. You don’t realize how utterly dizzy you are until then. “Was that bad?” you murmur, face scrunched with misplaced panic.

Eddie shakes his wild head until the words catch up to him. “No. No, I just… I can’t believe we haven’t been doing this the whole time,” he confesses with a boyish laugh.

Your giggling entwines with his — innocent and pure and golden. He’s kissing the breath from your lungs a second later, with all the intensity of someone making up for lost time.

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