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imming my favorite nonfiction book is pilgrim at tinker creek by annie dillard annie used her nature observations as jumping off places for essays that combine poetic images quotes from past researchers and facts about nature it is not an easy read but it is a book that reveals something new each time i dip into it it is the mindset of the book that has remained with me the strongest to paraphrase a three page section in the time i am writing this the galaxy is careening hundreds of solar systems are being born the sun s surface is exploding winds are blowing caribou are moving across the tundra sharks are moving up and down the coast a moth is crawling a snake is stirring dillard 97 99 for my quilt i didn t try to reproduce any of dillard s personal experiences i chose one of my own that echoed her mindset it is my attempt to capture one moment at our pond s edge when i saw a big old turtle swimming by while birds twittered and shrieked from the trees and minnows splashed in the shallows and dragonflies guarded their territories keep swimming a quilt that celebrates the book pilgrim at tinker creek all the blue fabric in the birds was hand dyed by me the other fabrics are batiks i beaded around the outlines of most but not all of the creatures detail of a bluebird and a minnow i spent enjoyable hours on this quilt and i had the new bts album arirang on repeat while i did so the first single they released was swim so it seemed apt to name this keep swimming if you would like to read more quotes from the book and see a few more details of the quilt you can visit my home blog at textileranger com posted by textile ranger at 11 00 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels book gwen textileranger a hobbit hole there are no prizes for guessing which book i chose i had a hard time deciding as i ve had so many different favourite books at different times of my life but tolkien has been an enduring companion to me throughout and the hobbit is my chosen tale there are so many wonderful quilts that were crying out to be made but i settled for a modest understated hobbit hole framed with a gold ring i m very much looking forward to seeing what others have made posted by janine rainbow hare at 09 06 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels favourite book janine friday 6 february 2026 new theme thank you everyone for sharing your quilts in motion i always enjoy seeing the different interpretations of a theme we re left with just one theme favourite book reveal for your favourite book will be friday may 1st in the meantime i suppose we should be thinking of prompts for the next time around i m just filling in and helping out posting this prompt i ll leave it up to the administrators with a capital a to decide the ongoing direction of this group after the may reveal posted by barbara at 00 41 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 1 february 2026 bird in motion for today s reveal i made a bird that with help can flap her wings i did also make a hanging felt heart but once i put the strings on the heart wasn t heavy enough to make her hang without her wings drooping so after a lot of searching i found a stone pendant and that did the trick here is a selection of photos showing her in motion the background is a room mr rh was decorating with various coatings of paint over new plaster thank you mr rh i thought this was a particularly challenging theme so i m looking forward to seeing what everyone else has made posted by janine rainbow hare at 14 44 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels janine motion zoom i made this from a piece of umbre fabric so that the colors progressed from light to dark at first i wanted to make a ball bounce but that did not really work without a 3d shadow posted by yogaromaquilter at 13 00 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest motion after the storm since i had just a short time to work on my project before leaving on a trip i wanted to find something i could do quickly often when i m looking for ideas i consult the google after typing motion in quilts into my search bar i came up with bargello cool i d never made a bargello quilt before and i didn t even know how to get started so i spent a little more time searching and came up with an idea from quilt inspiration for a free bargello pillow pattern i ll admit to feeling a little guilty about using a pattern for this but since i had limited time and it was a technique completely new to me i cut myself a break this time pawing through my stash i came up with these fabrics the first step was to cut strips all the same width and then sew them together in order here s how that looked next i was to sew the two ends together to form a tube next i was to cut strips perpendicular to what i had already those were cut in variable widths to get the feeling of motion the tubes were unsewn at different color changes until i had a pattern of strips that looked like this it made sense to sew the strips together using the quilt as you go method i created a large enough back and batting and then sewed the quilt top together quilting each strip to the ones that came before then i squared it up gave it a red binding and my quilt was finished here s how it looks from the back and since you can t have a rainbow without some stormy weather i m calling my quilt after the storm it ends up 20 x 20 inches i m looking forward to see what the rest of you did with this prompt i hope you like my quilt posted by barbara at 13 00 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a thread of motion thinking through this theme i had all kinds of ideas i thought i had settled on one idea until i was paging through a quilt book one day and a whole new idea came to mind i quickly stitched up a quilt top using an orphan block i had made from scraps another quilter had given to me that quilt top sat on my design wall while i considered how to quilt it i decided that i should do a practice run first so that i had a plan when i tackled the larger quilt oddly the practice quilt is my favorite of the two although the block in the actual quilt top has more motion in it i think this is the practice quilt motion is shown in the quilting which was done with my walking foot the quilt is 14 5 inches square the quilting was done with aurifil 40 st thread in mustard 5022 which works well with the pickle green fabric in the block and binding the different angles of the quilting creates motion in the quilt the quilt backing is just a solid white black print which also has a bit of movement or motion to it okay getting back to the actual quilt i was planning for this theme same idea just larger the block is made from some scrap improv units given to me by another quilter years ago my daughter says the block is wild so i m taking that as there is some motion in the block while i had planned to do similar quilting for this quilt i changed my mind the more i looked at it once again i was paging through a quilt book and saw this idea for adding quilting so i thought i d give it a try for this quilt i used aurifil 40 wt thread in beige 2314 and 50 wt threads in neon orange 7000 neon yellow 7001 and turquoise 2810 i m not entirely happy with the outcome of this but i think it does add some motion to the quilt the backing is one of my favorite fabrics for the color and the movement this quilt finished at 24 inches by 31 5 inches i m looking forward to seeing the other quilts in this challenge wendy posted by piecefulwendy at 12 30 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels piecefulwendy motion location united kingdom monday 3 november 2025 new theme thank you everyone for sharing your beautiful sashiko quilts it was interesting seeing so many different interpretations of the theme we re left with just two topics 1 motion heads 2 favourite book tails with just two i ve decided to do a coin toss to choose the next theme thus the heads and tails designation and i had a hard time deciding on a currency since not everyone here is in the united states so i selected my favorite one dollar american coin the susan b anthony susan says heads the next theme will be motion the next reveal date is sunday february 1st i hope you all have a peaceful holiday season i m looking forward to seeing how you put this theme into motion happy sewing everyone posted by barbara at 16 21 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 1 november 2025 sashiko blooms upon hearing the next theme was sashiko i considered using one of my sashiko stitcheries but of course i stashed it somewhere where i d remember it and i m still wondering where that is so i stitched up a little piece but then thought it wasn t enough so that is still on my design wall in the end i decided to create some flowers using raw edge applique and sashiko stitches i have a book on sashiko that had examples of stitches so i tried to use some of those in the end it really looks like i just did big stitching but i really did use examples from the book in the petals i used long stitches and pluses in the brown center i attempted some diagonal stitches the stems are just long stitches in green threads and the leaves got a little more creative you might also notice the quilting done by machine but it is a nod to another sashiko design i added the blue white border because i thought it worked well the backing is a cheerful blue floral i had in my stash i m not really sure i met this challenge but i enjoyed stitching wiht the 12 wt threads and finishing this little quilt it measures approx 14 x 21 wendy posted by piecefulwendy at 12 00 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels piecefulwendy flowers sashiko location united kingdom sashiko reveal mermie s cabin good morning fellow endeavourers before i show you my finished quilt let me tell you first about plan a when this prompt was announced we d just returned from our trip to alaska while we were in alaska we were fortunate to be among the 30 of visitors who actually get to see denali this was a picture i took when we pulled off the road i spent some time perusing pinterest looking for inspiration some of the images i saw on pinterest made me wonder if i could recreate my image of denali using the sashiko technique so i printed my image onto a sheet of sticky fabri solvy and went to work on it i d planned to stitch parallel running stitches in the various colors from the image after stitching on it for a few days i started having doubts about whether this was going to work without some kind of outlining i didn t see how it would ever look like anything other than a bunch of random stitches i hadn t decided to give it up yet but i was thinking about what else i might do randomly one evening i was in our spare bedroom where this watercolor painting hangs on the wall it was painted by my husband s grandmother her name was olive riddle we called her mermie in the post i wrote on my personal blog i went into some detail here about mermie if you re interested in the more detailed version of this reveal you can read my blog post right here so as i looked at the watercolor on the wall i could envision it in stitching i had an idea to outline the main subjects in stem stitch and then fill in the interiors with different sashiko patterns i took a picture of her painting and then printed it as a photograph in preparation for this project i d already purchased some sashiko templates i used them for inspiration and then as guides to help me trace the stitching patterns i wanted to use then i traced the design onto fabric and then i just stitched and stitched and stitched until it was finished i only had a loose plan about how to stitch various sections and made some decisions as i went along when it was finished i trimmed it very close to the stitching and then added borders the pattern in the gray batik seemed just right for this piece dedicated to sashiko and then i quilted it on my domestic sewing machine by stitching very very close to the stem stitching the quilting is mainly functional but it also gave some texture to the piece when the quilting was finished it looked like this from the back all that was left to do was to add the binding here is my finished quilt it measures 15 x 17 5 inches here s how it looks from the back here s a closer look at the stitching and now it is hanging with the watercolor cabin that mermie painted thanks for visiting today i hope you like my quilt posted by barbara at 12 00 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome to the endeavourers we are a happy group of 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