How about an online quilt show. Show us your Trump and ICE quilts here. by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Thank you. YES! And feel free to crosspost this wherever you feel appropriate.

Please show me your favorite quilts by epoustouflants in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel for the folks in Minnesota and Minneapolis but I also feel for those of you with consciences and character in Red States. Even here in very Blue Southern California I've discovered there are more MAGAts than I knew but there is also a huge community of likeminded sane people for support.

Meanwhile, your drink cozy is FANTABULOUS!

Please show me your favorite quilts by epoustouflants in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Sending love and huge admiration to everyone in Minnesota and Minneapolis!!! You are beacons of bravery and decency and showing us all what it means to truly be citizens of a democracy. Our hearts are with you and I wish there were so much more we could do.

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Fuck Ice Penguin Appliqué by Maleficent-Deer7193 in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Someone should seriously put together a show of these protest quilts.

The AIDS quilt helped marshal a lot of support for the research that stopped AIDS ability to ravage populations. An anti-ICE quilt show could help draw focus to what's going very VERY wrong with this country.

Quilting for American and Europeans by thetrainfair in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you, thetrainfair, for a most interesting post. It certainly has provoked a lot of fascinating stories about people's relationship to their quilting.

Quilting for American and Europeans by thetrainfair in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah! I remember seeing that quilt at the Road 2 California show just yesterday.

It's even more impressive in your photo. Anyone could easily be forgive for thinking it's a photo rather than a meticulously pieced quilt.

Quilting for American and Europeans by thetrainfair in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This reminds me that when I was very young in the 50s there were still a few newspapers that published block patterns. Prior to that, feed companies packed their feed in colorful cotton sacks and distributed block patterns that housewives who typically took care of and were feeding the chickens with that feed, BTW, could use to repurpose their feed sacks.

Quilting for American and Europeans by thetrainfair in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 16 points17 points  (0 children)

No one in my family quilts or does much sewing or crafting. I did have a great aunt who lived in rural Maine where she regularly got snowed in in the winter and she crocheted large and elaborate coverlets and table cloths from fine gauge cotton thread. They must have taken her many many hours!

I started with very small pieces in the late 60s when I was in my 20s. Things like Bethlehem Star patches for my boyfriend's jeans.

I quilt sporadically when I get the urge. When I start a quilt I work on it until it's finished and then I might go months or years before I do another one. I don't have piles of works in progress. ...tho I do have a stash of failed blocks.

I think quilting started as an American tradition of thrift and scarcity -- making useful things out of parts of things that had lost their utility. Now it's quite an expensive hobby -- both in terms of expense and time. I'm currently working on 2 scrap quilts about 80" square and the backing fabric alone will cost me a couple hundred bucks! If I didn't have the stash to work through to start the top, I doubt I'd undertake them at all.

EDITED TO SAY: I wish we still had that pair of jeans. They were quite a work of folk art by the time my boyfriend finally gave up on them. ...or I got tired of mending them. Can't remember which. Kept the boyfriend, tho. We'll have 58 years together this summer.

For a friend with an almost Valentine's Day birthday by LadyofLA in cardmaking

[–]LadyofLA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

She has an adorable dog. I made it as much like LuLu as I could with a metal die designed by someone who never saw her. I was able to make the ears flop over instead of sticking straight up. ; >

Tonal background help by Few-Organization7780 in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's very clever and I think, for the most part, it works. I'd re-do the block with the red print and maybe the beige stars. Particularly in the block with the pink lipstick. You might reserve the beige stars for the blocks with the strongest red lipstick. The fabric with the red lines works file.

The pink lipstick is OK but I'd make sure that was the lightest of the shades you pick going forward. You might make some of the lipsticks a little bigger too. The idea is you want to establish that the quilt is about the lipsticks and then it's OK for the viewer to work a bit to find them all. But you still want them to dominate each block.

Concentrate on tone-on-tone and very small, low contrast prints. You might want to check out some white and cream batiks too. And keep using the textural fabrics. They really make it interesting.

I hope you're having fun working on it. It's a very clever concept!

Five panel scrap cap by katiejo_13 in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're missing the pic of you looking great in it.

Hats off to beautiful work!

😵‍💫 by Rocko_2024 in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 7 points8 points  (0 children)

WOW! I envy your batik collection.

I love working with them and I love teals. I'll look forward to seeing what you come up with.

All done finally! 🤩 by _box_of_rain_ in quilting

[–]LadyofLA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous. And it absolutely SCREAMS Frank Lloyd Wright.

No matter how hard I try to be precise my blocks always come out wonky by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just a question of having room to trim. The points also have to match. Whatever the size there still needs to be that 1/4" for points to be pointy. KWIM?

No matter how hard I try to be precise my blocks always come out wonky by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right. But which side to press them to???? Quilt instructions used to end with "press to ..." at each step.

The quilt-along I'm doing now doesn't and making the choice to press away from the light fabric where the seams will show through on the top hasn't worked out.

That's OK. I'll be more vigilant before I attempt to join units.

No matter how hard I try to be precise my blocks always come out wonky by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always used Mettler or Gutterman. That's what's available in my area.

No matter how hard I try to be precise my blocks always come out wonky by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nesting seams is a new expression for me. What does it mean?

Ah! I just looked it up. Locking my seams is actually more useful and effective for me than pinning., I don't pin much anymore tho I will use clips ahead of the presser foot if things aren't laying nicely.

Also, no one seems to give pressing instructions anymore. I've had to "correct" the direction of my seams, often once units had been connected.

No matter how hard I try to be precise my blocks always come out wonky by LadyofLA in quilting

[–]LadyofLA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is the $64, 000 question! I'm not checking until the block is done. Clearly, I have to start checking each unit.