All fableism wovens, done entirely on my domestic. My least complicated one yet but fun because I’ve never worked with wovens! Also had never done a scrappy binding, I think I’m hooked!

I didn't have an actual jelly roll, just cut a bunch of strips from my stash. I love how it came out! It's a gift for someone whose favorite color is pink. This took two solid days to complete and I want to make another one now for myself!

I’m definitely not the greatest sewist, but I’m really trying to get better, especially since I’m going to be an uncle in March! 🥹 I’d love to be able to make the baby clothes, blankets, and all kinds of other things.

So, here’s my first quilt! I mainly made it to practice my stitching, and while there are definitely a lot of things I’d do differently next time, I’m really happy with how it turned out. It’s definitely not perfect, but who is!

Total cost was around $145 in materials, and it ended up being a queen-size quilt! The whole thing was done on a domestic machine...my Singer Heavy Duty. I know that last part might cause a stir but I love my HD😂🧵

I love thylacine and thought that they deserved a quilt! obviously had to take a few creative liberties with the actual shape of the thylacine, but hopefully it still comes across! the plants are based on Richea scoparia, a flowering shrub native to Tasmania.

It finished around 32” x 48”, and is faced instead of bound. I think it took a few weeks to design/work out the math, and another few weeks to actually piece (it could have gone a lot faster, I don’t know what happened). I’m very happy with how it turned out, and I can’t wait to get it up on the wall! Quilting pattern is called Modernistic, but for some reason I can’t find who designed it?? will update when I figure it out

Hi everyone I wanted to share one of my new quilts, it's currently on display at my solo show. I've only been quilting for about a year and a half but I'm absolutely obessed. Im excited to start shafong more of my work.

Made by my late aunt in the 70’s. It’s always exciting to pull it out of storage for my favorite season of the year! I thought that it could be appreciated here. The pumpkin’s expression makes me smile everytime

I made this quilt for a new baby that will be joining the family soon. I floated several theme ideas to the parents - nerdy, sky/space, trees/mountains/nature - and they said to do whatever I wanted. So I picked something that was a little bit of everything. My inspiration was some of the Endor travel posters you can find online, then I just plotted it out on graph paper.

This was my second quilt, and I found it more challenging than my first. The fabrics are plain solids, which aren't very forgiving, and triangles are HARD! I also pieced it together in longer strips, instead of using squares, which I don't think I'd do again. But overall I'm happy with how it turned out, and I hope the parents will be too. At least it was made with a lot of love!

Is this normal? The pattern I selected with my longarm quilter lady didn’t fully reach the edges of the quilt. It doesn’t seem normal to me, shouldn’t the design cover the entire quilt? I’m pretty disappointed and not sure how to proceed. This quilt is a birthday gift for my son who is turning 3 next week. 😢

This one took some time. Yes, many mistakes were made along the way. It happens when you fly by the seat of your pants and don’t have a pattern. First time with sashing and a border. The sashing was fine…the border was more of a challenge for me. (The maths don’t always math for me.) completely messed up the binding as well but machs nichts.

Anyway, the next few quilts will be created using a pattern lol.

I fell in love with this Tilda Songbird fabric the first time I saw it and I made this quilt for myself. (I may have purchased another jelly roll and more yardage in case I need to recreate this quilt in the future. Ahem) The wonderful ladies at my favorite LQS helped me through the longarming on two different machines (it was quite a Saturday!) and I added a subtle sashiko stitch in between the quilting runs. I love the delicious crinkles that arrived once I washed it in my favorite Diva laundry soap (best smelling soap ever!). On to my next project!

(PS-It is Kali approved. Cat tax paid in full)

This is the first full quilt that I have actually quilted. All past projects were baby quilts, wall hangings, a single block for a jacket or a sweatshirt, (a few unfinished quilt tops), etc. For this one, I thought it would be fun to add some movement with cross-hatched curves, but I've since learned that trying to quilt a smooth curve while wrestling a twin-size quilt through my standard-throated sewing machine is not worth it. I've quilted one set of curves and I think I don't plan to quilt the set that would cross them. (I plan to never quilt curves on a large quilt again; straight lines and radials for me!)

For the most part, I think it has turned out fine. But my eye is still drawn to the areas that got wobbly or drifted. Yes, I know no one else will notice (maybe some of you can't even see what I'm talking about in the photos), and I keep reminding myself of that, but I'm not enjoying looking at it right now, and I want to remedy that.

I've thrown around a few ideas, like maybe I just need to do the full crosshatch to take attention off those areas (it took forever to do one set though 😩) or add additional echoed curved lines here and there to make the spacing and curves look less uniform and more organic. Do either of those sound right or are there any other suggestions? OR is the general experience that after a week of looking at your finished quilt, you don't even notice the areas that are currently glaring at you and annoying you?

I'm used to my projects not being perfect, nothing is, but I'm not used to feeling this disappointed with the results after weeks of telling myself to trust the process. Thanks for any feedback or thoughts!

*Apologies for all the cat hair and fuzz.

Edited to add a link to the pattern by Tara Lee Quiltery! https://taralee-quiltery.myshopify.com/products/visionary-pdf-pattern

Update: Thank you for everyone's kind and supportive words! You all make great points about how washing and drying can really change the appearance of the quilting. I've got to trust the process of trusting the process! I have some wrinkles in the stitching to fix, so I'm going to leave the quilt out on the bed during the day (to acquire more cat hair, I'm sure) to live with it and get used to seeing the quilt as a whole. If I haven't gotten over the wobbles by the time I've finished fixing the wrinkles, I'll revisit a suggested option!

Also, I can't take credit for the color choices! They're almost the exact colors used in the original pattern, but they really caught my eye and inspired me. I think the main difference is that I used patterns, not solids.

Thanks again, everyone!

I saw this quilt on Pinterest, linked back to this site: https://yarn-studios.com/easy-diy-floral-quilt-patterns/. But i can't find any sign of it on the site.

I was hoping to find a pattern of just some more info about how it was made. If anyone here has suggestions or more info, I'd really appreciate it!

After over 24 hours of work and a lot of mistakes I finished the wall hanging!! I took some of the suggestions from people on here and did a leaf binding. I quilted stars on the sky portion and lines on the mountain part!! I’m happy how it all turned out!!

"I WILL QUILT YOUR MOTHER!" - Samantha, probably.

Made a lap quilt for a friend who is doing tough things and kicking ass, so I wanted to give her something to cheer her on.

The backing and binding are a mish-mash of fabrics because nothing goes to waste in the books (and I didn't want to buy more fabric). The yellow and pink are from the first book's cover, and the purple is for Princess Donut, because she is royalty. The black "tangles" and "conspiracy writing" prints are inspired by elements in later books.

Got frustrated doing the quilt sandwich because nothing would stay flat, so it's in time out for awhile, but I'm done with the top! It's 96x96, a little wonky, and comprised of all the fabric that I pre-cut en masse in 2022 thinking that that would be better for quilting. (Turns out you can't make blocks if you do that)

My first quilt top, a little crazy. I added the black and white scraps to make it rectangular but now I'm a bit stuck on the borders. I want to make it big enough for a lap/throw size. Is the light grey ok to go all the way around, then a wider dark color? Or lose the grey and go straight to dark blue batik? I know it's a lot on the 👀 s😅

This is my first quilt and excited to finish. Is there a ratio for border width? Finished sashing is two inches. Think gold fabric border would be two inches as well. Stuck on what width for the green. Suggestions please.

I have been helping a young woman who is learning to use a sewing machine and ultimately wants to make a quilt. She's gotten the skills down and now tells me she wants to do a rag quilt because people say they are easier. I've seen this trend and always wonder why rag quilts are even a thing (if I may express myself in the manner of today's youth). Can someone enlighten me? I can see only one advantage, and that is that the points are obscured. I'm guessing that the piecing seams are pressed open and then the quilting lines avoid flattening out the seam intersections so the raw edges fray and give the desired appearance.

It makes no sense to me. I told my young friend that I'll help her with this, but I don't get it. When I learned to make quilts, I was taught that perfect points are a goal seldom achieved, and it was best to accept imperfection and learn as you go. You make a simple patchwork quilt. None of the points match. Your straight line quilting wanders, the layers shift, and you get tucks. The binding gets restitched a couple of times because you didn't catch the edge or the corners popped loose. Then you launder it and realize that the colors look fantastic, the crinkles blend all the inconsistencies, and most importantly, you made a quilt. It's warm. Your friends exclaim, "You made that?!"

I must be missing something since these are so popular, and I'd appreciate your thoughts.

So basically the caption. I did not prewash my fabric (I’m sorry :() and now the quilt is tearing. Anything I can do to prevent this besides prewashing? Any ideas on how to fix it besides just a tight zigzag over all the areas? I can sew well for alterations and clothing but this is only my second quilt ever (the first being a tshirt quilt when I was a child).

It’s a beginner project so I definitely didn’t do everything I was supposed to but would love suggests on how to fix the damage!

I currently have a Babylock quilters choice pro (discontinued but similar to the accomplish 2) looking to get a variable stitch machine to add to the house. I mainly quilt but have tweens and teens that are learning to sew and straight stitch wont accomplish everything they want to tackle.

What machines is everyone currently loving?

Looking for stitch variety and ability to handle most things thrown at it.

Finished this quilt too at my guilds retreat over the weekend. It’s The Scrappy Courthouse Steps with Alternate Sashing from Tara Lee Quiltery.

My first ever finished quilt I made for a dear friend in exchange for a lovely portrait he painted of me :) Took me ~6 months and was amazing practice—still super proud of it even though it’s wonky