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Jillyfishers 🚫👑
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Arrived to fight the fascists ❤️‍🔥
Stayed for the pet pics ☺️

I'm a quilty yogi simmer who journals for mental health. She/her. 🫖⚔️
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You can see this foundation paper piecing (Nancy Rolefsema ) block, but DO NOT look at my wonky center. 😅🫠 #FPP
The first block from Nancy Rolefsema's Winter Blues Foundation paper peicing pattern. It's a quilt block on a brown wooden table that features a swirling design and lots of little pieces. It's all batik fabric. The outside corners of the block are white/cream small dots. Thr hexagon shape features hot pink with muted white squares swirling around a dark shadow grey and there are hexagonal smaller lines inside the large hexagon-> middle one js blue and smaller inner one is white same as corners.
October 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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What color should I put on the back of this quilted table runner? #machineembroidery #picklepiedesigns #halfsquaretriangle
4 inch quilt blocks lying in a diamond-ish design on the grey carpet (if you look closely enough you can see all the cat hair; enjoy!) All the blocks feature Moda Bella's 30's yellow along with a seemingly random vintage fabric (alas, not the case since my Perfectionism makes most of the decisions). The various vintages fabric sides and the yellow sides are alternating to create the diamond shape. Half square triangles! That's the term I was looking for!
October 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Join me virtually? 🍂🧵🪡
Yay applique!
It's a poster I saw in the quilt shop. Text on white paper background except top half is on top of a picture of Autumn Leaves and a river. It reads "We are planing a beautiful fall virtual quilt retreat. October 10& 11, 2025. Sign up on our calendar / event tab. Timefliesquiltandsew.com $110 includes your exclusive new kit from Laser Cut Quilts & us! Or ask us to sign you ip!! Spacea are limitrd in order to receive our exclusice kit".
September 13, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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I forgot to show you the completed baby play mat quilt --> 3 layers of batting along with quilt top and Shannon Cuddle backing (YES, your Bernina can stitch through all of that)! 🎉 #PicklePie #MachineEmbroidery
Top left corner of the quilt on the white classroom table is flipped over to reveal the backside of the quilt which us cactus green shannon fabrics cuddle (minky). The top of the quilt is a square block pattern featuring cream, gold, pink, green, and blue batik fabrics arranged kinda tetris style. The quilting on each block are many swirls in a rainbow verigated isacord thread. Close up shot of 1 and a half of the blocks so you can see the verigated thread closely. The rainbow thread looks striking against the different colors in the block (cream, gold, pink, green, and blue). The quilting is swirls in a wave pattern. Drop down shot of the baby play mat quilt from the sky angle so you can see the entire quilt without the corner folded over like in the first picture. The blocks are all connected but every other block has been flipped 90 degrees to give pattern distinction to the quilt. (It reminds me of bandaids /adhesive medical strips for some reason?) The quilt is on a white classroom table.
September 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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My work friend and I both made blocks for this quilt! Moda Solids 30's Yellow. #picklepie #machineembroidery
On a white worktable in our quilt store classtoom sits a bunch of half square triangle quilt blocks. One half of evrey block is Moda Solid 30's yellow. The other half of my set is all vintage fabrics. My coworker made her other half from a modern bee design charm pack. We mixed them all together and started laying out this quilt design which features a diamond four triangle in the middle with rippling squares of the solid yellow coming out of it.
August 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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HALF SQUARE TRIANGLES are my favorite right now to piece AND quilt in my embroidery hoop! 🎉🪡 Which pic design should I do? Should I make more with a diff color Tilda solid? #quiltsky #machineembroidery #picklepie
Half square traingle blocks already quilted using a Tilda Solid Lavender color and the other side of the blocks are various blue tones of vintage floral fabrics. This pic has the blocks arranged on the grey carpet floor un a square border design that moves outwards. Half square traingle blocks already quilted one side of each block is a Tilda Solid lavender color and the other side of the blocks are various blue vintage fabrics with various floral designs. These blocks have been arranged on the grey carpet floor to be flying geese quilt block design. Half square triangle blocks already quilted in the embroidery hoop. One side is Tilda solid lavender color. The other side of the blocks are various blur toned vintage fabrics with random floral deaigns. They are all mixed togrther on the floor (grey carpet). This design is a pinwheel.
August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Livin on the edge (of my embroidery sanity) 😅 #quiltsky #sarahvedeler #yellowsubmarine
Two dark purple marbles moda fabric rectangles side by side long side vertical stitched down in my machine embroidery hoop on top of white stabilizer. The needle and Bernina brand words are visible at the top center. The one rectangle quilt block on the left is done with embroidery and has lime green spikes done on top. The right rectangle only has basting and placement lines down and is REALLY close to the edge of the fabric on the bottom left corner (like my sanity).
August 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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I'm using up vintage fabric scraps to showcase an alternative project for our Pickle Pie Co "quilting in the embroidery hoop" BOM. Cute or nah? 🥒🥧
Half square triangle blocks all pieced and quilted in my embroidery hoop using an embroidery module on my Bernina sewing machine. There are 12 different vintage colorways all also using Moda Bella Solid 30's yellow. The blocks are overlapping each other in a layered way from left to right. I tried my best to Roy G. Biv the vintage colors so it goes from brown, red, pink, yellow, green, blue and purple. The layered line of "rainbowed" quilt blocks is on a dark brown fake-wood table.
August 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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I'm playing around with the Ten Sisters grids. Anyone else use these? Suggestions welcome for what to turn this into! 🤔💓 2" finished using a mini charm pack. #quiltsky
Another blue/teal/white beach towel background as my makeshift ironing board cover (don't judge). The focus is the half finished grid of small square quilt blocks with a variety of colored (pinks, electric yellow, purples, and darks) all with a moonlight vibe interspersed with blender white (with tiny metallic stars) also squares to make a checkerboard effect.
August 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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I'm trying to show you this new jelly roll rug contraption, but this Lil Face needs snuggles. 😅💝
In my sewing room, my gold annibersary edition Bernina sewing machine sewing a jelly roll rug material and you can barely see the newrst sewing gadget in the bachground that helps shape it from cotton and batting strips into a thin rope shape. An orange and white shorthaired cat in the front staring straight into the camera wanting attention.
June 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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I adore the board game Wingspan! We'll be taking flight with fabric for 12 months and making FPP birds of North America. Join us? 🐦🐧🕊🦅🦆🦢🦉🦤🦩🦚🦜🐦‍⬛🪽🪿🐦‍🔥 #foundationpaperpiecing #quiltsky

www.birdwatchersproject.com
Light seafoam green background with a foundation paper pieced blocky image of a brown hawk or similar bird as the background for the text.
June 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I shouldnt even be letting you look at one of my first sewing projects from when I was a wee lass, but I needed a protest sign today.

We The People! 💪❤️‍🔥 #nokings #quiltsky
A yellowed wooden floor with a quilt in the approximation of an American flag made with repourposed blue jeans in lota of contrasting stripes from hues of deep and light denim. Appliqued on top of the VERY wavy throw size quilt are the letters N, O. Second row reads K, I, N, G, S in bright period red because I needed to.
June 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Any tips for Edge-to-Edge in the embroidery hoop? 😵‍💫💫 It's double stitching and that's not exactly what I wanted.... 🤔
#bernina #embroidery #edgetoedge
Michigan panel trapped in an embroidery hoop under a domeatic sewing machine with the machine's screen lit up to display a motif featuring waves, pune trees, and a cloud. It's half stitched out with grey thread onto the denim blue panel.
June 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I made so many 7" blocks but now what do I make out of it??!?? 😵‍💫

Gotta quilt it into something to show people that you can quilt in the embroidery hoop something other than a quilt. 🤔 #quiltsky
Quilted in the embroidery hoop 7 inch quilt blocks 3 by 4 of them on my brown kitchen table. Each block has quilted lil swirls (see my previous post for a close up) and features batik fabrics with a watercolor design--> there's cream in the center, then yellow, then pink/orange, then green, last blue. It's almost a log cabin style. I was trying to Roy G. Biv it a bit.
June 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Yeeeaaahhh shoot I love it. Now I'm onto another Pickle Pie BOM block quilted in the hoop. Just in time for June! 🥳 #machineembroidery #picklepie #quiltsky
My boring grey carpeting is the the background of this picture of my embroidery hoop and polymesh stabilizer containing my newly machine embroidered quilt block. The block itself is made up of a half rainbow of batik fabrics going in order from the center--> cream, yellow, orangey-pink, green, and blue. All fabrics are a watercolory type design. Block has rainbow verigated thread quilted on top in wavy swirls moving right. Batting is Quilter's Dream Green (not shown).
June 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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How should I quilt this? 🤔🌋 #fpp #foundationpaperpiecing #lotr #fandominstitches
My rough beginner attempt at Foundation Paper Piecing on my sewing table and grey cutting mat alongside various sewing implements (roller, clear yellow quarter inch ruler, rotary cutter, primary colored scrap fabric etc). Pattern is free on Fandom in Stitches website and depicts the Balrog fighting Gandalf the Grey from LoTR. Brown background and shiny orange whip black crackle Balrog w/red horns on a chared black earth and galdalf brandishing a steel sword (all in fabric of course).
June 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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😳😺
A wide-eyed black & white shorthaired feline stares at you and sits atop my current WIP featuring bright appliqued flowers with circle centers on a cream-beige background of a quilt. Tell her she's pretty.
May 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I'm finally finishing my Barbara Persing Blooms quilt for a beloved 3 year old. 🌼🌸 #freemotion #bernina
A batik quilt is being completed in my sewing room under the gold Bernina sewing machine. The quilt blocks feature Barbara Persing's vibrant fabric of appliqued flowers with a circle in the middle of each one in a different color than the flower. I've freemotion quilted around in each one and did some swirlies around the beige borders. This is a closeup of the light beige border fabric in the corner of the quilt where I have freemotion quilted the words "you are so Loved" in stitches next to a heart. There's a close up of a purple appliqued bloom on the bottom left with an orange center circle. You get a cheeky peek of batting on the right top corner and the lime green background fabric.
May 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I finished this hideous, yet nostalgic alt project for TFQS. Fabrics were given to me by my grandma in disgust because she thought they were sooo ugly! 😆 I think they're happy colors & it gives me a giggle just to think how she'd disclaim about this in my house. #picklepie #machineembroidery
Our dark brown wooden table featuring a centerpieced lego bouquet in a clear vase on top of my newly created quilted-in-the-embroidery-hoop'd table topper featuring bright vintage fabrics (unknown origin or dating) consisting of yellow, purple, red, white, and green/blues in various olden timesey patterns. The quily blocks are each a middle square surrounded by triangles and borders ringing them. It burns my eyes but it reminds me of my Grandma.
May 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Quilt as you go project #5 is coming together but all you get to see is the nekkie quilt butt. 😜😄 #quiltsky #machineembroidery
Ever wonder what the inside of a quilt looks like? Feast your eyes upon this quilted sammich that is currently upside down. You're looking at the stabilizer, then one layer down is the franken-batting, then we have the pieced pretty fabrics. Each block is sewn together in this picture and ylthe bright fabrics can be seen in between the white stabilizer'd blocks. They are quilted with various swirlies (technical term in our household).
May 1, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Who also uses "Frankenbatting"? #machineembroidery #quiltsky
An open pie of hooped stabilizer with one quilt block done in the machine embroidery hoop and another on top having the "frankenstein-ed" batting (aka two remnant batting pieces sewn together) getting tacked down. Ignore the most eye-gouging vintage fabric choices behind the batting!
April 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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My quilting deals psychic damage. Which one is better tho? 😵‍💫🌀 #machineembroidery
Your eyeballs wont thank me for making you look at this crazy colored block. On a dark blue towel background is my Pickle Pie BOM month 5 made with who knows where I got them vintage fabrics in an array of colors. Somehow this one makes my eyeballs hurt less? What say you? This quilt block is also on a dark blue bathtowel background and is made up of triangles and squares in bright, vintage fabrics.
April 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Am I crazy for caring that my hexes are not the same direction???? Please help--> should I redo? What would you do? 😵‍💫😩 #machineembroidery #quiltsky
Two purple quilt blocks side by side on an old blue towel background. Both blocks have hexagon outlines but the blockhead maker made one of them 90 degree turned so they are not the same at the top. How could she do this to herself? She is special at multitasking mistakes. Both blocks feature vibrant stars so maybe people wont notice if they're blinded by brilliance?
April 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Month 2 BOM 🧐💭💚
Lots of lime green in this quilt.... love or leave it?
#machineembroidery #sarahvedeler
Machine embroidery Sarah Vedeler's Yellow Submarine blocks featuring aster purple thatched background fabric with lime green and bright raspberry colored fabrics as accents. Dont ask how long these blocks took me. 😆
April 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Yes, I quilt in my embroidery hoop. 🙋‍♀️🌟🌀
Another amazing display of machine embroidery finesse using Pickle Pie company's block of the month designs. April's block is quilted swirly, yet with square & angled blocks to contrast each other. Their classy black and white theme melts even my black heart. The center is a delightful cobalt blue. <chef's kiss>
April 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM