QuiltedMess

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One day, I shall sew the family heirloom. In the meantime, I'm practicing. Check out #Quiltsky if you haven't already found it. 24/7 caregiver of adult special needs son. Epilepsy sucks. she/her

Cissy Serano's pattern Kanani O Ka Home for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian quilt along in honor of America's 250th (https://americanindian.si.edu/quilting/). There is red fabric in a floral and hen symmetrical pattern on a yellow background done with needle turn applique.
Close up of a Singer sewing machine with the automatic needle threader device in action. Someone's left hand is pinching the white handle of the needle threader while the right hand is holding the end of a red thread. The thread is kind of looped around the needle threader. They will turn the needle threader away from the needle (turn towards the back) and the thread will be pulled through the needle in the process.
Needle turn applique quilt block measuring 11x11 inches or so. Red fabric appliqued on yellow background for the Kanani O Ka Home quilt block from the Smithsonian's National Museum for the American Indian quilt along in honor of America's 250th anniversary. The red fabric is cut in Hawaiian quilting fashion representing flowers and chickens from home (Hawaii) and is basted to the yellow background with white thread. The top half is mostly sewn on and looks thinner than the bottom half, which still needs to have the edges turned under and sewn.
A roughly 14x14inch foundation paper pieced quilt square depicting a red and blue striped light house on a rocky shore near a sandy beach with 3 sailboats out on the water. There is a dark blue fabric border around the whole square.
A baby quilt in progress. There is a giant heart in the middle of the quilt made of squares and a few triangles in rainbow colors. Background is light yellow fabric with green leaves. Quilting is not finished. There are some scattered safety pins on the quilt along with random seam thread ends that need to be buried. Edges are still raw and some batting is visible.
40+ pieces of fabric cut into roughly 5 inch squares. Fabric is arranged in a diamond shape in a rainbow gradient sitting on top of a cutting rotary cutting mat and ruler. Fabric needs to be ironed and then trimmed into proper squares. There is a stack of fabric visible at the top of the picture and some dark blue squares to the side.
FPP quilt block measuring approx 14in x 14in. There is a US flag. The blue field on the flag has 13 stars embroidered in a circle around 1776 2026. There is a black crow with an embroidered eye atop a brown picnic basket with a green checked blanket inside and embroidered green fringe. And there is a slice of watermelon with embroidered seeds and a jar of lemonade with an embroidered label spelling out leonade. The quilt block has a dark blue frame with weathered stars on it. Quilt block is from "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A Maxvill. The jar of lemonade was supposed to be a jar of "Grandma's Hot Dog Relish." I also modified the flag as it only had 11 stripes. Had to modify the blue field accordingly.
Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) uh, pieces ready to be joined together. There is a US flag in 4 pieces in the upper left. A black crow in several pieces in the upper right. Pieces of a yellow jar of lemonade next to a slice of watermelon in the lower left. And pieces of a brown picnic basket with green checked picnic blanket in the lower right. When this block is put together, it will be approximately 12 in x 12 in. Pattern is the July block in "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A Maxvill.
A foundation paper-pieced FPP quilt block of a brown basket full of pink and purple tulips and green stems leaves. Background is cream fabric. There is a matching green border with pink and purple squares in the corners. Flowers have yellow embroidered stamens. Whole block is roughly 14 inch x 14 inch. Pattern is by Beverly A Maxvill in "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs"
White felt letters lying on a light grey couch with a bit of red and white striped fabric to the left of them. Letters spell out "End the epstein war" "Defund billionaires" "Abolish ice" and "#fdt". Okay, the letters spell out #ftd, but when I sew them on the flag, I'll put them in "#fdt" order.
Close up of an embroidered ant outline. The background fabric is blue with lots of white daisies. The ant is embroidered in white, making it difficult to see.
FPP fabric covered paper pieces laid out on a cutting mat ready to be joined together for a complete block. There are 3 bright pink tulips and 3 dark purple tulips with various green leaves and stems, all sprouting from a brown basket on a cream background. Pattern by Beverly A. Maxvill in "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" for the month of May.
An old Singer sewing machine. Unlike many sewing machines of this era (no, I don't know how old it is, I just know it's older than me!), this one is painted mostly in bright orange with round wheel at the end being painted bright purple, although it looks more blue in the picture. There is a sticker above in orange, purple, and white that says "TIGERS" with a little tiger paw. There is a sticker on the table of the sewing machine that is orange and white of a larger tiger paw. Clemson colors for a Clemson graduate.
The beginnings of a foundation paper piece block. A bunch of bits of paper with bits of fabric sewn on them. Lots of cream bits of fabric with some pinks and purples and browns and greens. The papers with green fabric are more covered with fabric than the papers with pink or purple or brown fabric. All strewn on a dark blue and white tablecloth.
A quilt block to hang on my parents' assisted living apartment door. FPP paper pieced block shows a bright red heart candy box with red embroidered lace around it. White heart in the middle of the red heart box is embroidered with "Be Mine". Ends of a gold ribbon are on either side of the candy box. Candy box is lying on top of a dozen red roses (only 8 stems shown). Roses are composed of 2 darker shades of red fabric with 2 shades of green for the leaves. Each rose has a curly black question mark type shape embroidered on it to add to the opening rose look of it. Background is cream fabric, framed in green fabric that matches half of the rose stems, with yellow squares in the corners of the frame. Two of those squares are nicely in place. The other two could use some work. Will try a different technique for the next block in this series. Finished block is approx 14x14 inches squared Pattern is February block from "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A. Maxvill, which is out of print and I found at my library. Ended up buying a used copy.
Paper pieced quilt square approx 12.5 inch sides. Red heart candy box with cream heart in the middle and yellow ribbons coming from it. Heart box is on top of the stems of a dozen red roses, with some stems visible on one side of the box and the roses on the other side. All on cream background. Pattern is February block from "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A. Maxvill, which is out of print and I found at my library.
Paper pieced pieces, fabric side up, laying on a cutting map. When sewn together, these pieces will (hopefully) appear to be a dozen red roses. The roses have 2 shades of red with 2 shades of green leaves on a cream background. They're sort of in a right angle shape. This is part of the February block of "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A. Maxvill, which is out of print and I found at my library.
Completed paper-pieced snowman quilt block. Snowman with black top hat, red scarf, 3 coal buttons, carrot nose, and embroidered eyes and mouth. Satin stitched eyes and French knot mouth. Two stick arms. One stick arm has a bird house hanging from it with the connecting string embroidered on. Other arm has a red bird perched on it with embroidered feet and French knot eye. That's probably 1/4 to 1/2 of the French knots I've ever made. Snow-topped bushes on either side. Blue background with a handful of embroidered snowflakes (asterisks) scattered around. Red border with yellow squares in the corners. Sides are roughly 14 inches. All ready to hang on their apartment door! Pattern is "A Year of Paper Piecing: 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs" by Beverly A. Maxvill.
A 14-inch sided square quilt block of a paper-pieced snowman. The snowman has a black top hat, carrot nose, red scarf, 3 coal buttons, and 2 stick arms. The eyes and mouth will be embroidered later. There is a bird "hovering" over one of the stick arms (legs to be embroidered later) and a birdhouse "hovering" under the other arm (waiting for a string to be embroidered, attaching it to the stick arm). Several snow covered bushes are on either side. The whole block is surrounded by a red border with yellow blocks in the corners. Pattern is from Beverly Maxvill's block of the month book "A Year of Paper Piecing 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs." This is January's "Mr. Snowman" block. I borrowed it from our library!
Work-in-progress of a paper-pieced snowman. There is a black top hat with red ribbon around it. The top and middle sections of a snowman with carrot nose, red scarf, and two coal buttons. The left stick arm with a 3-story brown bird house underneath. Two sections of snow-covered green bushes. There are also 2 paper pieces barely started. One for the bottom snowball with a piece of black fabric for the coal button and a piece of white fabric for the start of the snowball. The other unfinished piece is roughly triangular shaped with a piece of orange fabric for the birdbeak on it, sewn to some blue sky fabric.
Three foundation paper pieced fabric bits sitting on red crackled fabric. All 3 pieces have a blue background. First piece appears to have 3 brown sticks going through it for a hand. The second piece has 1 brown stick for the arm. The 3rd piece looks like a top hat. All three are from the January block Mr. Snowman from Beverly A Maxwell's book: A Year of Paper Piecing 12 Sensational Seasonal Designs, which I borrowed from my local library.
1923 Model 99 Singer sewing machine. Black with gold filigree designs on it. Attached to wooden base. The motor and the lamp are on the other side of the machine and you can see just a bit of them.
Screen shot of my browser, asking "How far from Charlotte NC to Atlantic Ocean." Underneath is a picture of the world map with "A" on Charlotte NC and "B" on the label of the Atlantic Ocean which is in the southern hemisphere on the map between South America and Africa, closer to southern Africa. Next to the map, is written "Charlotte, NC - > Atlantic Ocean 6,910 miles. Below the image of the world map is a link to NileGuide website (which I had not heard of) saying Charlotte is 155 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
The Chevrolet quilt folded into a pillow. It's sitting on a white comforter. Background of the pillow is royal blue with yellow stars (asterisks) sewn in it. There is half the yellow Chevrolet bow-tie visible with the letters CHEV in blue on it. The yellow and V are on the far right of the pillow. This portion of the pillow is a separate quilt square sewn to the back of the quilt like a pocket. It is quilted.
Large throw-size quilt lying on top of a white comforter. Quilt is mostly blue squares in a checkerboard pattern, with one set of squares all royal blue and the other set of squares in varying shades of blue. There are some white rectangles with images of a 1948-49 blue woody Chevy station wagon and various Chevy logos and sayings. "See the USA in your Chevrolet."
Quilt square that will be the pillowcase of the quillow. Royal blue background with half of the Chevrolet bow-tie logo in yellow, with dark blue CHEV on it. Yellow bow-tie has been quilted with a definite handsewn running stitch. There are safety pins in the surrounding blue background. Three edges of the quilt square (which is actually a rectangle) are finished off. The right edge is all raw edges and will be bound in the main quilt binding. Quilt square is lying on a white and blue tablecloth.
Fabric sewn to depict the Chevrolet "bow tie" logo. Background is royal blue, bow tie is made up of different yellows, letters (all capped) are in various royal to dark blue fabrics. The logo is split roughly in the middle, between the V and R. Those areas need to be trimmed to size and will be sewn into the quilt binding and hopefully line up nicely when I do that. Fabric is lying on a light grey couch. At the top left of the photograph is a tiny bit of white fluff belonging to best cat.
Fabric square sewn together to form dark blue letters on a yellow background. Upper piece spells ROLET and lower piece spells CHEV. Extra yellow squares on the side with a few sewn together
Quilt made up of various blue squares under the walking foot of a sewing machine. A few safety pins are visible in the quilt. Some of the backing and batting is visible bunched up beyond the sewing machine.
A white ~1990 Kenmore sewing machine with a cute little walking foot sewing down the side of a blue quilt with the batting sticking out. A few safety pins and straight pins are visible.
Blue quilttop draped over the couch. Half the squares are a royal blue in a checkerboard pattern; the rest of the squares are various shades of blue with a handful of rectangles tossed in. Rectangle fabric features an old (c.1948-1949) Chevrolet woody style station wagon along with different Chevy advertising. "See the USA in your Chevrolet."
Baby quilt. Tumbling blocks pattern with red, green, yellow, and blue blocks arranged in a pyramid. Background are pastel hexagons in same colors. Green border and yellow border. Quilt is not bound. All machine sewn.
Quilt in progress. Several rows of various blue blocks sewn together, with the current row still being sewn on. Newer Singer sewing machine. Box of straight pins.
Large white piece of fabric with a red stripe at the bottom is on top of another "identical" white piece of fabric with a red stripe at the bottom. All draped on a light grey couch. There is a cat sleeping on the top of the back cushion to the left of the fabric; you can just see the top of her head and some of her body. She is mostly white with black spots, but her black spots aren't showing in the picture.
Comic strip done in black ball point pen. Stick figures and abstract laptops (keyboard is a parallelogram with QWERTY written inside). 1. Bomb displayed on laptop screen. Bug-eyed figure. Caption: WORLD EXPLODING 2. Laptop and figure. Laptop: MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY 3. Figure with lightbulb overhead. Caption: I CAN DO THAT. I'LL GET MY DISCORD FRIENDS TO JOIN IN 4. Laptop: WHINE!! 5. Figure saying, "Hmmm" alongside calculations for a 28"x42" flag, specifically the red stripe on it. Bottom dimension is circled. 6. Laptop: YOU'RE JUST WORKING ON YOUR PROTEST FLAG!!! 7. Balloons and smiling figure. Caption: SUCCESS!!! I DREW A TERRIBLE COMIC!! Another Two Left Hooves Production 6/24/2025
A homemade US flag. Red quilting fabric pieced with white fabric for stripes and a solid blue field. On the blue is a white crown and a white circle/slash symbol through the crown, with "NO KINGS" underneath it. The slashed crown and letters are in white felt. They're basted on, so I can replace them for the next protest.
A tabletop with a newer Singer sewing machine (very plasticky looking) on it, along with lots of squares of various blue fabric. A row of blue squares has been started. The handwritten fabric layout is barely visible underneath the fabric.
Large piece of fabric with large holes cut out of it on light grey couch. Fabric has a white background with some greens and blues and wavy lines. There are repeats of a person riding a horse and a cactus.
Stacks of fabric squares in various shades of blue arranged in a circular shape on top of another piece of fabric. Bottom fabric is white background with an oval Chevrolet logo and a late 1940s Chevy woody station wagon in blue. On top of everything and surrounding the car are 2 cardboard frames of different sizes with the square frame set at a diamond to the rectangular frame.
Various blue fabric spread out on a white and blue tablecloth. The fabric has been cut into 5 inch rows and folded so each appears to be a 5 inch square. Solids, tonals, a few small prints, all in shades of blue with one in white.
Screenshot from the www.joann.com website of black fabric with various colorful gnomes, green cactuses, and horseshoes all over it. One gnome has a guitar, one has a rope, one is wearing chaps, and one isn't. Half the gnomes have traditional pointy gnome hats; the other half are wearing cowboy hats.
A red and white quilt from approximately late 1920s to early 1930s. Blocks of red and white flying geese alternate with blocks of embroidered wheels (do they count as Dresden plates?) with embroidered names of members of a church from central Illinois. Possibly for a church fundraiser? Ten flying geese blocks & ten embroidered wheel blocks all arranged in a square. Upper wheel block is torn. Crappy photography.
Bold yellow sign with large all-cap letters saying "LAST 10 DAYS!" in a store front window.
Picture of freshly purchased fabric, neatly folded. Fabric is in "solid" tonal colors of pink, red, green, orange and blue. Fabric is sitting on the edge of an open clothes washer, with a plastic beige clothes basket in the background.
Screen capture from the www.joann.com website. A birdhouse that looks like a white sewing machine with pink flowers, blue dragonfly, gold scrollwork on it and a twine loop to hang it up.
A long row made of small squares of fabric sewn together balled up on the couch. Fabric is mostly shades of green with some sky blue tossed in. Seams have not been pressed yet. There is a small piece of paper safety pinned to one end of the row. It's blurry, but I know it says "Next Row Left" to tell me that that square should be sewn onto the left side of the quilt when I add the row to the rest of the quilt.
A ~1985-90 Kenmore sewing machine lying on its side with the bottom plate removed. It's on a kitchen table with a white and blue table cloth. Next to it is the sewing machine manual (with glare on it in the picture) opened to the "Oiling your machine" page with a drawing of a machine on its side showing removal of the bottom plate and arrows where to oil. Other drawings include available presser feet and accessories for the machine.
Store windows with large red, yellow, and black signs. Only part of the left window and sign is in the picture with the "RE" and "ING" of the "STORE CLOSING" sign. Middle window sign says "ENTIRE STORE 30%-60% OFF Original Price. Limited Exceptions Apply." Right window and sign is again only partially shown in the picture with the "NOTH," "HEL," and "BAC" of the "NOTHING HELD BACK" message.
Display of 18in square quilts, mostly in shades of purple. All themed around the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
Shelves with George Foreman grills, Emeril Lagasse grills, Oster can openers, plastic containers, and brown boxes, along with a sign saying kitchenware is 15% off.
Picture of part of an aisle full of new notions stock, all Fabany brand. 25% off. Packages of elastic and velcro in white and black in various sizes, ironing board pads, metal fasteners. Not all shown in quickly snapped picture
Shelves of cotton fabric for quilts or various project. Yellow 20% off sign attached to one shelf.
Screenshot of the notice at the top of www.Joann.com website: Important Notice: Beware of Fake JOANN Websites As of Wednesday, March 5th, purchases on JOANN.com have been disabled. There are no other authorized JOANN shopping websites. Please see your local store for all of your crafting needs. Inventory varies by location.
Rows of fabric at JoAnns. Many identical bolts still wrapped in plastic.
White cat with black spots and black tail (not a cow) asleep on a folded pile of dark brown fleece. Dark green cushion behind her. All on top of a light grey couch.
Two hot pink signs on a pole with bolts of fabric and empty shelves in the background. First: "2 yard minimum cut. BTY fabric elastic ribbon trim. One cut per item" Second: "Jo-Ann is emptying their warehouses! New merchandise arriving daily!"
First top 9 rows of a tree quilt lying mostly on top of a white with peach polka dot beach towel with the rest on a driveway. Quilt is mostly shades of green squares with a few dark brown squares for branches and blue squares for sky. Below quilt is a copy of a cross stitch pattern used for the quilt, with the top few lines highlighted in orange to show those rows are completed.
Large lap quilt on a standing quilters frame with oval hoop. Quilt background is shades of brown with a rainbow peace symbol in the middle. Peace symbol is hard to make out in the frame. Ready to start stabbing into the red side of the symbol. Lots of safety pins are holding the quilt together. It's in front of a couch with a white and black cat sitting there and wondering what this new contraption is.
Backside of an unfinished quillow pillowcase. Dark brown fleece with rainbow color embroidery flosses outlining a large circle peace sign with a purple hand sign peace symbol in the middle and 2 red hearts in opposing corners. There is an orange splotch near one heart that looks more paisley on the front. Small metal circle is the back magnet of my needle-minder.
White and black cat stress-loafing on the couch because I moved the large pillow near her. It's a large, square pillow (approx 29"x29") with 1in cording all the way around. Upholstery on pillow is off-white, green, and pink splotches with green and white thin geometric lines on it.