I'm mentally preparing for work by zoning out with #handquilting a scrappy quilt for a neighbour's newborn. It's calming enough I might start carrying around random scraps to stitch when I need to direct my energy and can't take a proper break.

I am using the blanket stitch, in matching embroidery floss, to quilt around the shapes of the wedding signature keepsake, I’m currently working on – I love how it adds to the design! 🤩👏

My tip: Make the height of the stitch and the space between stitches the same.
In this case they’re 1/8”.

#quilting #sewing #handquilting #QuiltTip

Tiny quilt in action! With cardamom tea, arrowroot biscuit, my messy sewing table, and the squirrel pincushion made for me by @spillyjane

#sewing #quilting #HandQuilting #TinyQuilt #tea

Five years ago today, I was working on this #babyquilt #startrek  #pink #quilt #handquilting

Here's a better look, by daylight, at the tiny quilt I made yesterday in the workshop at ASIL (http://asil.ca). Now that I've practiced a bit at this scale I'm totally jumping into making a big quilt for my bed. If you're in #WindsorON #yqg and want to learn this there's another class on April 13 and it's super fun!

This one's going to be a tea mug mat for next to my sewing machine.

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My mom handquilted this massive beautiful thing out of scrap fabric left over from sewing projects from our admittedly very 90s childhood and it’s so profoundly amazing I can’t even explain what it means to me. #Quilting #Maker #Handquilting #Quilt #Art

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* Pull the thread, with a light tug, pulling the knot through the fabric. This will bury the knot between the layers.
* Cut the thread and bury the end, by slightly pulling up the backing fabric.

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I was recently asked to share how to bury knots, when hand quilting. 🪡
You basically pull the knot through the backing fabric.
Here’s how to knot off:
* Bring your last stitch out to the back of the quilt.
* Make a knot, in the thread, just further than one stitch length away from the end (see arrow).
* Insert the needle, one stitch length away. Into the backing and batting only, and come back out 3/4” away.

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First finished #quilt of 2023. 4th in the series made from my late grandparents' clothes and bed linens. Started in later summer, only found time to finish the #handquilting over the holidays.

I finished handquilting my latest quilt. This is the largest quilt I have handquilted. This quilt was inspired by The Orville New Horizons Moclan female character Heveena played by Rena Owen . The quilt has elements of her clothes and home. The Orville #quilt #handcrafted #handquilting #TheOrvilleNewHorizons #MocLan #hevenna #Luminites #applique

My first #handquilting project: handmade #Christmas #stockings for me and my wife. It’s our first Christmas together in NS.🎄#sewing #handmadegifts #sewist

Here is the Star Trek Chateau Picard quilt in my dinning room. The quilt is appliqué and handquilted. #StarTrek #ChateauPicard #Quilt #Handquilting

Here is the Star Trek Chateau Picard quilt in my dinning room. The quilt is appliqué and handquilted. #StarTrek #ChateauPicard #Quilt #Handquilting

I’m making progress handquilting The Orville Moclan quilt. #Handquilting #TheOrvilleNewHorizons #Moclan #Quilt

I’m making progress handquilting The Orville Moclan quilt. #Handquilting #TheOrvilleNewHorizons #Moclan #Quilt

My tendinitis is angry about my latest knitting spree, so today is a day to add some pieces to the never ending green EPP quilt. All of the pieces are made and it's just sewing everything together. One day I'll do the math on how many hexis there are but most days I don't want to know.

(If you look closely, yes, those are MTG cards in there. You can get two 1" hexis out of each card and bulk commons are nice and sturdy)

#quilting #epp #handquilting #englishpaperpiecing

scrap quilt with dinosaurs in the middle I made up for my first biological grandson, arriving in March 2023. so excited! #quilting #handquilting #newgrandma

scrap quilt with dinosaurs in the middle I made up for my first biological grandson, arriving in March 2023. so excited! #quilting #handquilting #newgrandma

Sunday #handquilting progress on The Orville #moclan quilt.

Saturday #Handquilting progress on The Orville #Moclan quilt. I’m attaching a reference picture also. #RenewTheOrville