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gaillizette.bsky.social
@gaillizette.bsky.social
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Quilt designer and maker. Cat lover. AARPunk. Secular Humanist.
https://GailLizette.com - Quilt blog + Quilt Patterns

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gaillizette.bsky.social
First try at this #quilting motif. More practice needed, but super happy with this as a start! #longarmquilting #freemotionquilting #maker #modernquilt
Photo of a teal blue and dark gray quilt on a longarm machine. Shows the hand-guided quilting, or stitching, that creates an organic pattern
May 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Practicing my quilting after fixing the longarm. I have also been calling my representatives to demand accountability... even if it doesn't help, it makes me feel like I'm doing something. Aarrrgghh! #quilting
Quilt squares up close to show the quilting, or stitching, that I've been practicing.
May 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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tribelaw.bsky.social
This!
April 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Who's up next after Booker? @senatedems25.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Are military people okay with all this? Will they uphold their oaths to the constitution? Jeffries better find a backbone to help support and protect our military.
karaswisher.bsky.social Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Mar 27
Here’s an unctuous toady who has zero scruples around caring about what could have happened to troops due to the morons running national security and confuses luck with what her actual job is, which is making sure people don’t have to rely on luck to stay alive www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally Investigated
The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not on military information being shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
This #quiltpattern test was a success! Just have to layout a cover for it, then a print run! I'll have these booklets available on my blog soon! #quilt #modernquilting #maker
A quilt top made of dark gray and teal blue fabrics hanging on a design wall. The bottom edge is laying on the floor.
March 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
It's #caturday and Taz says hello.
A cream colored #ragdollcat laying on his side on a box, looking at the camera with blue eyes.
March 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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mskohut.bsky.social
Let’s get on the same page..
Black background with bold white text “Reality Check There’s “no evidence” of election interference because there was no investigation.”
March 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
This is the last block in my #quiltpattern test. I get to start piecing all the blocks together tonight! Planning to print these once this test is done. #quiltprocess #quilt #quiltsky
A teal blue and dark gray quilt block on an ironing board in front of a window with an orange curtain
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Just heard: Tesla Chainsaw Massacre and can't think of a better name for this horror show!
March 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
CALL THEM - MAKE THESE DEMS EXPLAIN why they censured AL GREEN - Ask why are they supporting musky/47? I'M BEYOND LIVID
Rep. Ami Bera: 202.225.5716
Rep. Ed Case: 202.225.2726
Rep. Jim Costa: 202.225.3341
Rep. Laura Gillen: 202.225.5516
Rep. Jim Himes: 202.225.5541
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March 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Here is a hand-stitched #quilt I designed in 2010 and finished in 2012. I'm still amazed I actually finished it! There are 3,942 half-inch #EPP hexies that took me 18 months to #sew together. I used french-knots to quilt the dragon and a wood grain #quilting design in the background. #quiltsky
Wood Dragon by Gail Lizette Weiss - 2012. A quilt with a dragon motif made out of many small hexagons like pixels. The dragon has a cream colored body with red, orange, and yellow top scales, and green belly scales. The background of the quilt is made of brown and gold colors. The whole quilt has a dark brown border with one red horizontal stripe going across at the top and bottom. A photo of basted EPP (English Paper-Pieced) hexies next to a dime. These are from the Wood Dragon Quilt as it was in progress, and it shows some of the brown background, the green belly, and cream body hexies as they were being laid out. EPP is a sewing technique where you cover a paper template in fabric and baste it in place. This holds the fabric in place as you sew the pieces together. After sewing all the pieces together, the paper pieces are removed before quilting.
March 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
My task today (for my current #quilt project) is to trim a stack of half-square-triangles for the next block in my quilt pattern test. It's a nice mental escape. What are you working on today? #quiltprocess #quiltsky
A pile of half-square-triangle quilt blocks on a cutting mat with an acrylic ruler and rotary blade. The HST on the top of the pile are teal blue and dark gray colored.
March 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
To motivate every single -even if small- action to stop 47&musky, I'm sharing another quilt from my Chakra Quilt Series. This one is inspired by the Throat Chakra. This is a visual representation of my pent up frustration and anger exploding into something beautiful. #quilting #quiltsky #healing
Vishuddha by Gail Lizette Weiss - 2018. A quilt made up of tiny scrap bits of blue fabrics to look fragmented and sparkly. There is a 16 pointed star (New York Beauty block) in the center of the quilt made of white and light blue points with a light blue center. The whole design is divided down the middle by 2 white lines and a center block with the words "I am worthy" quilted into it. A close-up of the Vishuddha Quilt. Showing many small pieces of different types of blue fabrics, randomly pieced. There are wavy quilt stitches about a quarter inch apart, over the fabric. A close-up of the Vishuddha Quilt. Showing the center block of fabric with a blue and green print with the words "I AM WORTHY" quilted into it. To the right and left of this block, there are the two half circles made of light blue fabric with metallic gold birds on it. The top and bottom of the center block is made up of tiny scraps of light blue fabrics. Vishuddha Quilt label. A screenprinted label with details written about the quilt. It is a navy blue label with white text sewn onto a dark blue and white marbled-looking fabric.
March 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
February 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Made these blocks today for the quilt pattern I'm testing. So far, so good! #quilt #quiltprocess #quilting #quiltsky
A quilt block made of half square triangles on a cutting mat. Teal and dark gray fabrics.
February 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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johncusack.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Yep! I'm already very happy with the fabric colors in these quilt blocks! #quilt #quiltsky #quiltprocess #art
Two quilt blocks on a design wall. The blocks are made of teal and dark gray fabrics.
February 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
This big center block was my project for the day. It's hard to cut blocks larger than 12.5" and keep it square. Moving on to hst blocks tomorrow. #quilt #quiltprocess #quiltsky
A large 18.5" quilt block made of dark gray and teal fabric on a cutting mat with acrylic rulers on top of it. A teal and dark gray quilt block on a design board.
February 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Finishing up the last round on these quilt blocks! Onto the next part of this pattern test.
Swirl block finsh from Swirling Oceans quilt pattern. Dark gray and teal fabrics.
February 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Yep. I'm a sucker for this feral ball of fluff - every single time. 😹 😻 #cat #feralcat
A cat sitting on a big flat rock in a yard. The feral cat has blue eyes and cream colored fur with black stripes on its legs and tail. Its ear is clipped to show the cat has been fixed.
February 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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realkylekeegan.bsky.social
Jasmine Crockett is shredding this solo. But it’s past time for the rhythm section to enter this song already.
February 21, 2025 at 2:29 AM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Next round on these quilt blocks: done! Took 3 times longer because I sewed them on wrong the first time. Typical for me 🤪 #quiltprocess #quilt #quiltsky #sewing
Swirl block for a quilt made of dark gray and teal blue fabrics. Quilting in progress.
February 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
gaillizette.bsky.social
Here's another older quilt finish. This is the Sacral Quilt - part of the Chakra Quilt Series I created as a practice in self-healing. I was raised in a cult-ish religion with fanatical parents, then completely disowned - no contact for 35 years. Lots to heal from. #quilt #quiltsky #healing
Sacral Quilt by Gail Lizette Weiss - 2020. Part of the Chakra Quilt Series. A 6-petaled lotus flower made of orange scrap fabrics in a white circle, surrounded by an orange background made of more orange scrap fabrics. In the very center is a white crescent moon shape.
February 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM