So Many Nerdy Things, One Quilt

[lydamorehouse]

 
Image: Star Trek Queer Gaming Quilt pinned and ready to be quilted.

As I have discussed previously on this blog, I am in a gaming group that plays Star Trek Adventures Tabletop RPG. We are the very queer players and characters on the USS Alan Turing. This is the pieced quilt that I am making for our gamemaster, tallgeese . All that is left to do is the actual quilting part and the hemming of the edges. I am super-pleased with how this one looks.

For any of my new readers, I started quilting right before the pandemic hit as a thing to be doing while hanging out with a friend who is suffering dementia. I kept it up during the isolation part of the pandemic as "apocalypse crafting" and a way to settle my jangled nerves. After making all the quilts my family and I could ever want or need, I've started to treat quilting like zucchini farming--which is to say, I spring them on unsuspecting friends and family. (I have not yet dropped a quilt into someone's open car window or randomly left them on neighbor's doorsteps, BUT THAT DAY MAY BE COMING.) I make no pretense that the work I do is skilled. It just makes me happy to use fun fabrics and sew. I do these all by hand (even the quilting, which I do with a quilting hoop). I'm learning as I go in most cases. So, there are mistakes. I don't sweat them. This is all for fun.


Image: fabric close up of the twenty-sided dice in rainbow colors wrapped in a banner that says, "Roll with Pride."

This is my second gaming-themed quilt, the first being a "roll with trans pride" quilt I made for my god daughter, Naomi. Previous to that, I'd made two baby quilts for her sister (and shipped them off to the UK!) I made an Easter quilt for someone in my D&D group, cat quilt for naomikritzerand several deep sea themed quilts for internet and far-away friends (including one octopus + sheep quilt for my friend Eleanor, who loves both). My only caveat with these quilts is that the recipient do with them WHATEVER THE HELL THEY LIKE. If they want to donate them to charity, use them as doggie beds, or tear them up for their component parts that's also fine, since, like a bloated late-summer zucchini in Minnesota--they might be nice, but they were unasked for. 

I have put out a couple of calls on Facebook when I've had some fun fabrics that I thought someone might appreciate, so if you actually want one of these zucchini quilt gifts, let me know (or check-in periodically on Facebook.) If you're a friend of mine of any length of time (and I have your mailing address), just wait. The zucchini will eventually just SHOW UP. 


Image: Close-up of the progressive triangle on rainbow flag. Bonus close-up of planets.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

This looks amazing!

[lydamorehouse]

Thank you so much!

[bibliofile]

That is a fabulous quilt. I love that they make those fabrics, too.

[lydamorehouse]

I ordered a lot of the gaming stuff from Spoonflower, so they're special order, but still.

[rachelmanija]

I love your quilts. That one is fantastic.

[lydamorehouse]

Ah! You were one of my first zucchinis!

[rachelmanija]

I will accept more zucchinis at any time.

[pameladean]

That is the best quilt, it hits me right in the feels.

I have to say, I never really expected to use that particular phrase. I blame the quilt.

P.

[lydamorehouse]

Aw! Thanks!

[sabotabby]

Holy crap. Even by your usual standards this is EPIC.

(Also, did not realize our GM had a DW!)

[lydamorehouse]

He does! Although he's almost never here.

And, thank you so much!!

[lcohen]

this is amazing and i bet J will love it! (of course i would love a zucchini quilt if one were to come my way, but i should be the last star trek person on the list, cause i bet all the rest of us would love them, too.)

[lydamorehouse]

How do you define yourself? Because I have "roll with bisexual pride" fabric that needs a home! And I'd love to make you (or someone) a quilt in bi pride colors.

I'm sure I could find lesbian and/or poly pride, if you prefer.

[lcohen]

i didn't even know there *were* poly pride colors. i certainly ID as bi more than lesbian or poly (well i'm definitely not a lesbian anymore--i was a lesbian for 24 years but when i got interested in dating men, i changed that ID right quick, and i don't know if i'd be in a monogamous or poly relationship if i were in a relationship--i have been successful in both modes). which is to say, if the spirit moves you, i'd be honored and delighted, and if the fabric seems to direct you to someone else, i'd still administer hypos to you when ro is having a panic attack :) . <3

[lydamorehouse]

As a bonus the Old Trek science officer color is blue, which is part of the bi pride flag colors... mmmmm, I'm plotting and planning already.

[lcohen]

ooooooh!