An expressionist rose made from layers of blueish print fabrics cut in wobbly shapes to resemble petals, stacked atop each other, decreasing in size laying on a work surface with scissors and scraps of fabric at the edges.

5 1/2 French roses (as previously described) lay against black fabric on a cluttered work table. The fabrics used are reds and pinks, blues, purples, and turquoise, and varied prints some floral, others space or sea shells.

I cut out a new #FrenchRose to join a small pile I've been making for a quilted jacket I've been dreaming up, in anticipation of getting my sewing machine back from the shop finally today. But I should get back to work assembling the rainbow quilt top still laid out
#QueerQuilter #FibroFiberArtist

A quilt with orange and beige batik and dark blue squares have a hand-sewn running stitch in beige thread crossing through the block. One might charitably describe the stitch lines as “rustic”

Coming along! Looking forward to getting a few more stitches in later today or this weekend. It’s a great weight and very cozy!

Question for the hive mind: how do you mark or sign your quilts?

#stitchsky #quiltsky #queerquilter #quilts

A close up of dark blue broken nine-patch quilt with blue batik and light brown squares. A beige thread in an uneven running stitch goes up some of the squares on the diagonal. There is also a very untidy stitch in blue thread along the seam of the block in frame; this was machine quilted in an attempt to quilt with a wavy line

My first quilt top, and the point here is to finish and by hand. It’s going surprisingly quickly! My little boy can’t wait to snuggle it, so thank goodness for small graces. I actually really like that the stitching is an uneven. Guess I’m not a Type A quilter?

#quiltsky #queerquilter #stitchsky

English paper-pieced hexagons of red and orange fabric flowers with yellow-patterned centers attached to each other with white-on-white on fabric. A few of the flowers are not yet attached. The fabric is wrinkled because. A laptop keyboard and black ball of fluff is in the background. The fluff is my cat, she wasn’t interested in modeling today.

A cheerful way to spend this chilly mud-season day. At this rate, this quilt will take probably 12 years to finish. Maybe by then this field of rainbow flowers will only be a rainbow, and not need to be a sign to others

#stitchsky #quiltsky #queerquilter #epp #quilt

Four scrappy quilt blocks sew together in a square, with charcoal grey sashing between them. Each block is made of an assortment of scraps in different shapes and prints. The blocks on the left hand side both contain bits of the same pink and red seashell fabric, but the top one is predominantly red, while the bottom is predominantly pink. Both blocks on the right are red.

Four scrappy quilt blocks sew together in a square, with charcoal grey sashing between them. Each block is made of an assortment of scraps in different shapes and prints. The block on the bottom left side is predominantly purple, while the other three are predominantly pink.

Channeling my rage into art. Little by little putting the pieces together.
Strictly reigning in the hyperfocal impulse to dive in for hours and get it done, in hopes of avoiding yet another pain flare
#NEISvoid #fibrofiberartist #queerquilter #hEDS #neurospicy #rainbowquilt #quiltsky #chronicpain

A quilt block made of assorted blue scraps, primarily in uneven strips, some strips made of smaller scraps. Patterns include batik birds, floral, circles, tiny bunnies, tiny scales, galaxy and stars

A quilt block made of assorted purple scraps in different sized rectangles and triangles. Patterns include dragon scales, stars, galaxy, flowers, and solid.

Final 2 blocks of my rainbow crumb quilt! 9 months of incremental progress. I can't wait to play with layout next, and I wish I had a blank wall to pin them to.

#rainbowcrumbquilt #queerquilter #fibrofiberartist

A scrappy quilt block made up of small and large pieces, about half of them in solid shades of turquoise. The rest in turquoise prints: koi fish, Space Invaders, squiggly lines

A scrappy turquoise quilt block made of many random medium and small triangles and trapezoids. Many of them are solid, a few have koi fish, space invaders, skeleton bones, or squiggles.

My back is pretty mad that my hyperfocus called me back to finish a second block. But that's turquoise done.
And I feel more emotionally regulated
#rainbowcrumbquilt #queerquilter #quiltsky #fibrofiberartist

A scrappy quilt block made mostly of many pieces of yellow rose w/ small blue flower print, and a few bits of mustard dragonflies, and yellow background fence post

A scrappy quilt block, 1/3 is a vertical strip of the yellow rose and small blue flower print. The rest is of triangles and strips of the mustard tiny dragonflies, more rose &flowers, the last tiny bits of fence post

I tried to rest all day. But then the game came on and I retreated to my work room, where I ended up squeezing out 2 last crumb quilt blocks from my meager supply of yellow scraps

#rainbowquilt #useeveryscrap #queerquilter #chronicpain #fibrofiberartist

A scrappy pink quilt block made up of random shaped strips and bits of fabrics including pink shells on red background, white dragonflies on peach background, pink and white stripes, tiny pink strawberries w/ green leaves, and more

I've not been sharing my progress, but here's yesterday's effort, 61 done. Only 19 more blocks to go!
#queerquilter #rainbowquilt #quiltsky #crumbquilt #UseEveryScrap

A quilt block made up of assorted scrap fabric in shades of blue. Prints include owls, circles, foxes, stars, fish scales, and bunnies

A quilt block made of assorted fabric scraps in shades of blue. Prints include: Batman, owls, bunnies, flowers, Buddha, comic strip

Back to work on the rainbow crumb quilt. So satisfying and soothing for my little brain to stop thinking about the horrors awhile and sink into pattern matching flow
#queerquilter #fibrofiberartist

A quilt block made up of random scraps of predominantly blue, white, and pink fabrics in squares, triangles, and rectangles. Patterns include: shells, flowers, stripes, bunnies, and owls

Finished up one last crumb quilt block for the Trans Pride Quilt Project. Now I just need to embroider my name on them, and get them in the mail.
@transpridequilt.bsky.social

#queerquilter #queerart #transpride #chronicallyillquilter #artisresistance #wevealwaysbeenhere

A crumb quilt block made up of a variety of randomly sized and shaped pieces, mostly in shades of pink white and blue. Prominently showing off a curved piece of sci-fi space vixen fabric along one edge.

Making art in dark times.
Another crumb quilt block for the
@transpridequilt.bsky.social Project.

#queerquilter #transpride #queerart

A scrap quilted sunglasses case in the colors of the non-binary flag; yellow, white, purple, and black, with green binding sits on a table next to some green sunglasses

The same quilted sunglasses case on a work table with large rhinestoned sunglasses sticking halfway out, and the green sunglasses next to it, and some safety pins

The backside of the quilted sunglasses case, made of black print scraps; planets, butterflies, bones. Green sunglasses, safety pins

Happy Pride, fam! 🏳️‍🌈
Made myself a 💛🤍💜🖤 quilted sunglasses case wide enough for my big fancy shades
#QueerQuilter #nonbinary #quiltsky #PrideProject

Back to work on the rainbow crumb quilt this week🍊🌈🪡
#quiltsky #queerquilter #rainbowcrumbquilt #queerartist

Whipped up 2 crumb quilt blocks this week to turn into a zippered pouch for a friend's bday
#queerquilter #quiltsky #queerartist #chronicpain #disabledquilter

Haven't been posting much, but I'm on to the purples now. 23 🌈 blocks currently done. Hoping to get to 90, but I don't think I have enough scraps.
Will see what happens after I go through them a second time.
#quiltsky #queerquilter #rainbowcrumbquilt #fibrofiberartist #chronicpainquilter

Pile of scraps on the ironing table next to organized cut scraps.

Scrap management is calming given the chaos of the world. #scrapmanagement #scrappyquilt #menwhoquilt #queerquilter #olisoiron #garethsews #quiltsky

3 clear plastic storage boxes with cut pieces of fabric ready to be sewn together to make a quilt.

Getting prepped for the @trianglemqg retreat next weekend. It will be my first quilt retreat. I’m so excited! #quiltretreat #menwhoquilt #tulapink #queerquilter #garethsews #quiltsky

What should you do while the world feels out of control? Why, organize your Tula Pink fat quarter stash of course! #quiltsky #menwhoquilt #queerquilter

A trapezoidal quilt block made up of various blue patterned scraps ranging in size and shape

Here's what I love about crumb quilting: it's so easy to drop into flow state and vibe on the pattern recognition task of fitting different shaped fabric pieces together in a puzzle with no wrong answers

🌈🪡 #QueerQuilter #RainbowQuilt

Various spools of 80 weight thread in different shades of green, pin cushion, and 2 packs of appliqué needles.

This is what appliquéing leaves looks like 🤣 #quiltsky #appliquequilt #menwhoquilt #queerquilter #garethsews

After all the love from #quiltsky on yest's #QuarantineQuilt post, thought I'd share a few close-ups. Plz ignore the lint.

All scraps used were left over from 30 yrs of sewing projects, srsly been dragging some of it around since highschool, and all hold meaning to me
#QueerQuilter #QueerArt

A large, colorful quilt hangs well over the edges of a queen size bed. The squares on the quilt are made up of many various sized smaller squares, each is different, and broken up by a black grid.

I don't usually make declarative statements about years, but 2025 is for completing long unfinished projects.
Quarantine Quilt complete. Only took 5 years.
+7 more, 1st handful of squares were made in 2013 & abandoned until the small scraps from mask making piled up in 2020 #queerquilter #queerart

Collection of scrappy 60 degree diamond quilt blocks made from Tula Pink fabric.

A new scrap management project. #menwhoquilt #scrappyquilt #quiltsky #queerquilter #tulapink

Square-ish pieced quilt top of colorful solid and print rectangles in cascading rainbow pattern

Pride-inspired lil wall quilt #wip #textileart #quilts #queerquilter

A stack of colorful fabric rectangles and a rotary cutter lay on a green cutting mat.

Yay color! #wip #textileart #quilting #queerquilter

It’s a quilty evening. Here some real time pebbles quilting for your enjoyment. #menwhoquilt #queerquilter #bernina #berninaq20 #tulapink #longarmquilting #quiltsky

Saturdays are for appliqué. #menwhoquilt #quiltsky #queerquilter #bernina #bernina770