Sewing/quilting

It's not perfect, it's not big, but it's my first quilt and I like how it turned out. All the fabric was already in my house; most of it was from a bag of scraps a neighbor gave me. All prints feature animals.

It's not perfect, it's not big, but it's my first quilt and I like how it turned out. All the fabric was already in my house; most of it was from a bag of scraps a neighbor gave me. All prints feature animals.

Made another smallish quilt, probably for gifting; shades of Turquoise, fabrics mostly from a neighbor's scraps, some of our discarded clothes, and one vintage sheet I bout around 2010. Handsewing with thread from my grandmother's stash.

This is the fifth quilt I have ever made. A neighbor gave me all the front fabric here--and most of the squares were already cut, which was a nice bonus. The backing fabric was from a rescued bolt of old bridal material; that also came to me for free.

A birthday gift for a young friend; all fabrics from my stash, most of them scraps from a neighbor, via Buy Nothing.

This is my seventh-ever quilt, smallish, basic, but I think I'm still improving with each one so I'll keep going for now. They will all be gifts. All the fabric here was free from a neighbor who was giving away her quilting scraps on Buy Nothing. The prints are mostly are Christmas red and white, and dogs.

Last new quilt for 2024; eighth total, and largest I've ever made. I know, it needs ironing. :) The neon squares were from Trash for Teaching, a warehouse of post-manufacturing waste (not there anymore, sadly). They were already cut into squares of this size, so I accepted that gift. The print fabric and rickrack are probably from my grandmother's 70s/80s stash. I'm thinking of it as a blank-slate quilt--the giftee can add to it, write on it, draw on it, etc. It's also bright and different enough to be easy to find on the beach.

I'm making a string quilt from scraps of past projects, for a show in February. These are the first sixteen blocks. Sorting fabrics into color groups, ironing and cutting them into strips, and assembling these blocks, even adding embroidery to some of them, has been a nice mental distraction.

I made a string quilt--that's when you use strips of fabric, in this case mostly diagonally, to create the blocks that become the quilt top. I didn't buy any fabric for this one, it's all scraps in my house, many of them from neighbors, some from my own sewing projects or clothing. At least some of the thread is from my grandmother's stash. The blocks were machine sewn, most of the rest is hand-sewn, and there's some embroidery too, here and there. (The center square is gold fabric with spiral embroidery.) I really enjoyed making this one.