Quilting Update

Image: Easter quilt with a lot of pastel squares and a bunny + egg blue patterned piece.

I FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO CELEBRATES EASTER. 

Some time ago, my mother sent a long a bunch of scrap fabric she'd picked up at a rummage sale or via some other fabric ebb and flow of the universe that had a lot of patterns for holidays that neither I, nor most of my friends celebrate. However, randomly at D&D, one of the players (our cleric) mentioned something about doing something for the Easter holiday and I immediately pounced. I was, like, "Hello, is there ANYONE in your family that wants an Easter themed quilt???" I imagine Stephanie just said, "Uh..." and I was already saying, "GREAT. I'll make one for you!!"

I mean, seriously, I feel like maybe I am some kind of non-consensual quilt giver. I'm like one of those people who secretly deposit zucchini at people's doorsteps in the middle of the night, only with quilts. 

The thing is, you can donate quilts to a bunch of places, but a LOT of them have restrictions (for good reasons) on religious-themed quilts. I think that many Americans celebrate Easter sort of secularly (and this one doesn't say "He is Risen" or anything) but it is, in fact, a rather major religious holiday... so I've been kind of casting around for Christian friends. (Shockingly hard to find, actually, for a country supposedly majority Christian. Apparently, they're out there, somewhere, but I just don't know them--or they have never "come out" to me for whatever reason.) I had a similarly difficult time giving away a Christmas quilt I made, too.

Anyway, now that this one is done, I shall be going on to one I'd been excited to make for some time: an RPG themed quilt!  It has dice!  There are dragons!  :-)

In the meantime, please enjoy some of the details of this quilt:

Image: the center squares. Bunnies going in all directions, enough to drive someone who likes things just so, truly insane. 


Image: Side panel where you can see some of the other bunny fabrics and my terrible hand stitching.

So, yeah, I'm still fully hand-sewing all of these. I piece them by hand, I quilt them by hand, and I finish them by hand. Why? Well, for one, I have never learned to use a sewing machine. They kind of scare me, if I'm honest. Second, this started as a "keep my hands busy" project to dispel some of the political, environmental, and pandemic panic/anxiety, so it's just stuck. It's not like I'm less anxious now-a-days, I just have something to keep me from wearing a hole in the carpet pacing back and forth with unspent nervous energy.

I mean, I kind of used to use fan fic for this, so there are dozens of people out there who are probably very disappointed that I discovered quilts and have put my prodigious energy into that instead of Bleach and other anime-themed smut, but what can you do? These things are cyclical. If I am meant to return to fic, I will.

 Right, well, I should head off an start my day. Hope you all have a good one.