If it all works out (and it's looking good,) I'll finish 14 total quilts during #AllSummerLongArm 2025

I have added 13 new quilt ideas to my to-do list

14 >13

I am calling this progress

I also have used cross stitches, to stitch down rickrack!

I have been making another baby quilt out of leftovers and scraps. It could do with a narrow border, but I don't have anything in the stash that is inspiring me just now.
#quilting
#scrappyQuilting

This wide-ranging article on South Carolina quilter Cookie Washington was so good — her story touches on a Gullah Geechee quilting tradition I’d never heard of, the 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church shooting, a Black woman who served as male soldier in the Civil War and reducing textile waste

Plus, I did not know that the Saturday Evening Post still exists!

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2025/07/telling-stories-with-textiles/

I am a longarm quilter that prefers to use rulers. All 8 quilts I’ve done so far this #AllSummerLongArm have been ruler based

But, for this 9th one, I’m free quilting wood grain — and it’s the quilting equivalent of getting to be naked 24-7 while your roommate is away

Wheeeeeee!

Another quilt block done. Love the bee fabric in this beehive block. To see the other completed blocks, please visit my quilting blog https://www.dlstewart.com/blog/DawnsQuiltingRoom.htm Enjoy a creative day! #quilting #sewing

There’s something so charming about a row of cross stitches, along the edge of fabric.
In this case I’m using them to hold down the binding of my mini quilt.

I will be using this beautiful 3-coloured Rick rack for this month’s red & black mini quilt.

Let’s Play - July - Week 2
https://youtu.be/mZeGM4h6QEU

I know, I know, I repost from Create Whimsy too often, but I like seeing what other quilters make and this Veltkamp guy is fun - his Car Alarms Quilt had me cackling

(if you want me to hashtag these with something so it's easier to block them, give me suggestions in the comments)

https://createwhimsy.com/projects/spotlight-joey-veltkamp-soft-painter/

19th century braiding machine making ricrac
In the 1860s, rickrack (yes, it's spelled both ways), was known as waved crochet braid or waved lace braid.

Traveling exhibit of Gee’s Bend quilters coming to a few places in New York, including some lectures, workshops and demonstrations over the next couple weeks

https://www.seegreatart.art/next-generation-gees-bend-quilters-have-show-in-new-york/

I hope you’re enjoying all my posts about the versatility of rickrack as an embellishment, this week.
I recently made a small woven Rickrack mat, using 3 different colours.

Knew I was going to lose this game of chicken, but there’s still more than a third of the top left to quilt!

Did order some, but the place I ordered from is in Texas and they’ve got bigger problems than shipping some random quilter’s thread quickly

I was treated to a feast of quilts this weekend in a local village. Monyash Quilters, part of the UK Quilters Guild put on a wonderful show.
#quilting #Quilters #quilt #TextileArt #fibrearts

Another pretty detail you can add to stitched-down rickrack, are French knots, made with embroidery floss!

Put another older mini quilt on my blog - Fence + Flags. https://ruthtillman.com/quilts/fence-flags/

I experimented with this in doing things like folding and pressing the white fabric so that it would layer like actual siding and figuring out how to string together and hang the "flags" in the binding.

It's not one of my more polished things, but it was very fun as one of my 2020 experiments. #quilting #quilt #MiniQuilt #ArtQuilt

You can decorate stitched-down rickrack by threading a contrasting thread (like perle cotton), underneath. Go through in the same direction, all along, using a blunt needle, to get this barber pole effect.
More charming!!