Thank you for your honest experience with the bernina. It confirms that not everyone needs a hugely costly machine to sew their projects on.

I watched your earlier ones. Glad you updated. I will definately try this.

I use flannel or flannelette instead of wadding. I source it from men’s shirts and old sheets. I use sheets for backing fabric. I sew a foot width seam instead of a quarter inch. It is easier to line the foot up with the edge of the fabric.

I love the backstory! I relate to what you said so much.

I started quilting during Covid too; started making masks. Then I thought why not try something new! Crappy sewing machine caused tons of problems and tears (and swearing) until my husband said for god's sake go buy a decent machine. First one was a Baby lock Brilliant; traded up to an Allegro after a year and not having a big enough throat. I just traded the Allegro for a Juki DX4000 and holy cow, what a difference. Each quilt I make I try something new; a different challenge. I'm 76 and having a ball! My goal is for each one of my siblings, kids and grandkids have a memory quilt. Now I'm on to other family members. Thank you for all of your help. I'm just starting a stained glass quilt the your flip and sew method will be a lifesaver.

Beautiful quilt!

The only thing absolute is time. Thanks for helping me know...I am not a fool. 😅

Excellent instruction, thanks!

Is this how pot holder quilts are made?

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I didn't love Bernina either. I have a Bernina 830 that I m looking to sell. Others may love it. I bought a Pfaff 640 to carry around with me. I also have a Hasqvana Epic. I love the IDT on both the machines.

Love this quilt. Thank you for showing us this.

I ❤ the cross stitch ties .

SUGGESTION for the one where you didn't like the colours. Dye washes, try using only a 4th or 5th of the fabric dye you'd normally use for the amount of fabric/colour density. It'll turn the overall hue in a different direction but still have a patchwork feel due to the different colours of the original squares. I have done this to make quilt backs from patterned duvet covers that clashed horribly with the top. If it's too light l do it again and sometimes break/retain the areas l like with simple tye dye techniques. Thrift/up cycle wise it's an easy way to reuse something of good quality that otherwise would put you off, and you can keep costs down by using dishwasher salt to set it with. Dying doesn't normally work for changing a completed quilt to suit a new colour scheme, mainly because the quilting stitches will dye as well as the fabric and at a different rate/not at all, think white poly thread allover the top suddenly throwing of the ballance. Also it can be expensive as wadding wil soak up a lot of dye, especially cotton based centres.

the needle looks like what i would call a "Bodkin"? love the quilt. love the ideas you inspire. the x stitches look like wee jewels

No I think most of us are like you. Want to do our bit but find it incredibly hard. I totally admire those people who can live by their principles and be far more sustainable than me. I'm trying to not buy stuff and use up my stash. I'm lucky to have a shop near that will take my scraps because someone else will use them. Hoping to get along to the Scottish Quilt Show - not sure which day yet.

Balance is what I've been striving for. All or nothing is an impossibility. I love Dana K White (KZbin channel) how she approaches clutter and doesn't make a HUGE mess and takes a LOT of time (like Mari Kondo). Dana shows how no matter how much time you have (even just 5 minutes) you can leave an area better than it was and not have piles to deal with later. Her method is called the 5 step declutter method. www.aslobcomesclean.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/DASL-5-Steps-to-Working-Through-Mess.pdf

I loved this quilt. You have given me some great inspiration. thank you! 💖

Oh my gosh, your intro sounds like me I buy bags of scrap from local Value Village and I don’t need it but I want it😄 I love your work. Beautiful leopard quilt. Thank you for sharing. 👋 Chris Ont 🇨🇦

I love playing with fabric. Your quilt is gorgeous. I’ve been searching for an idea for my new grandsons blanket. Thank you for your video, uv inspired me 🙏🏼 👋 Chris Ont 🇨🇦

We create because we are wired that way! Little kids proclaim they are artists (creators) until they are told they are not. Play is creative. We should never stop creating. My husband creates with numbers. He has been a creative accountant! (But an honest one) in essance he solves problems. My son creates in wood. The jobs my kids do all have to solve things. They create! Then there are there hobbies. No were are not Picasso but i think happy people are those that embrace their inner child and keep creating. I would dub you as an artist whos pallet is fabric and thread. If we all do our part we can be more conscious of out environment. We have a more is more culture. I dont need a new car every 5 years, New furniture when neccesary (our kitchen table is well over 100 years old) a few dings but still going strong. I do love me some new fabric but I have way to much so I am working it down. And have started limit myself. Dont be hard on youself. I never had bought fabric from destashes until i started following you! Love you quilt!

This quilt ROCKS! To me the “ties” are coloured freckles. I love to be creative and innovative and I admire those traits in others.

Your explanation at the beginning is wonderful! You expressed it so well. I feel the same way! ❤❤❤

I rarely buy regular "quilting" supplies and am currently snuggled under my crazy quilt with a sheet batting and pieced together fleece backing. It's cosy and has personality 😊

Браво! Великолепная работа! Теплый привет из Болгарии!

I made many creative quilts that I would problem solve as I go along. When completed it was impossible for me to explain the quilting technique or process. 💕 My process is to enjoy the process.

I have also put yarn in a bobbin and stitched from the backside (upside down) if that makes sense.

I ❤ your leopard print quilt. My friends give me their scraps so I rarely buy any fabric.

As someone who has received one of your quilts as a gift, I absolutely adore it and really appreciate all the thought that went into it

I love this quilt and the process. I always love your make do approach! One thing that I really appreciate is your frank discussion of the struggle that is just existing on this planet these days. Sustainability, environmental changes, "saving the planet" is NOT a one size fits all and is NEVER the sole responsibility of a single person. There are many conversations to have. I like the Goethe quote "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean." - Including corporate responsibilities (maybe more than personal). I also find this an applicable phrase anytime that we (as a society) are judging anyone else. Thank you for bringing this up as it is not only important to talk about, but also important to allow space for grace in those talks. You do that very well.

I’ve never seen this before but love the way you did this with the last piece being the backing behind the front and batting layers .. .. so Clever & a better finished look … wow ❤️👍

4:18 the one thing I took away from the Marie Kondo phase was to honor the intended function of the item. If it’s a Knick knack to sit around and you enjoy it that’s great. But fabric”s purpose is to be made into a usable item not to sit on my shelf. So I feel like I’d rather pass it along to someone who will actively use it rather than keep it because it’s just oh so pretty.

Great quilt. Love watching your process Desley🇦🇺

It's a chenille needle. I love them!!!

I was trying to work out what the little coloured dots were when it was hanging behind you - love it. It's like a mash-up between quilting and slow-stitching, and your repair fits right in as well. I'm part way through my very first full-size quilt and the backing and some of the front fabric are re-used from an old duvet cover and spare curtain but I haven't found a reliable supply of secondhand batting yet. None of the charity shops near me seem to have those flannel sheets - though I do remember sleeping under some of them when I was younger, including the stripes!

This quilt is fabulous. The couching is fabulous and I like the way you’ve tied it. I do like a tied quilt. The first denim quilt I made, I’m pretty sure the quilting of it was responsible for the death of my first sewing machine! The next one I hand tied. 😂 I love the way you’ve hidden the tales. I used embroidery thread and used all 6 strands and let them fray so it was almost like little tassels. I haven’t decided on whether or not to go to the Scottish quilt show but I’m hoping to go back to Birmingham again this year. I had a fabulous time there last year.

Kristin!!!! You know your spots NEVER stay in the same spot. 🤣🤣 I absolutely adore this quilt. Tying it inside of doing the long arm was puuuuurrrrrrrfect for this. When I was a kid my mom made quilts and ALL of them were tied. That works great but as a kid I hated the yarn touching me with the long tails. The way that you buried the tied part would have made that a dream for me as a child. Also the changing of the colors bouncing around the quilt made it so cohesive with the center. I think you did a fabulous job on this one. I wish you the best of luck in the show. Wish I could pop across the pond to go and to be able to catch up with you!! Much love!! XX Laura 💙🪡🧵

Kristen, IMHO, ANYONE who creates is an ARTIST! Give yourself credit where credit is due. Thank you.

I totally do the same thing with paper piecing. I actually tried cutting the pieces out first and I kept messing it up. So now I always use a much bigger piece and I feel like I waste less fabric doing it that way anyway and it makes more sense for my brain. 😁

Yeah, I agree with the folks that swear by ironing. I think paper pieced blocks look so much better when you iron after each piece. I was considering this, so finding out you can’t iron on it ruined it for me. 😮

We want all the cool fabric!

Really enjoy watching you, first time commenting :) The first time I shared with a quilter friend that I'm going to the thrift to look for a flannel sheet for batting, it was like I just committed the worst quilting crime. Not only using 100% cotton thread, another crime. Lol, whatever, its great fun looking for that nice flannel.sheet, and even more fun when its used in my quilt. On the scrap front, I've tried the cutting things down into sizes, but that was stressful, and just didn't motivate me to use them. I'd open a container with the cut pieces and they looked so strict Went back to sorting whatever size the fabric is by color, way more fun for me.

Love the quilt😊

I always love your process, Kristen. And your honesty. Thank you for being real! Oh -- and I love the quilt too!🥰

Gosh you made me laugh when you mentioned the Starbucks coffee and the whole sustainability issue with it in the photo😂😂😂. Love the quilt. Won’t make it though. Too complex for me and I guess I’m too lazy😅

Love this quilt, thank you for the inspiration ❤

Love this quilt and your thought processes as you go through your creative journey. thanks for sharing!

Beautiful quilt and I really like the way you tied the quilt.

Love the theme of the quilt! I have felt the same way, and what I found is that small changes over time make loads of difference over time and inspire others to do the same. Limiting focus and migrating through the house gives the feeling of progress as well. Some ideas that might help, going through and unsubscribing from email advertising as well as catalogs and things that make you want to spend or feel guilty because you want the shiny new things they are showing you. If you can opt out of junk mail somehow, go ahead and do that too. All of that reduces stuff coming in. Then you can pick a room at a time and look at your trash can. What is on top, you don't need to dig around but you can if you want. Pick 1 thing and figure out how to reduce the waste or replace with reusable. I find doing a little declutter of the room often turns up things to donate or that you are no longer using, and can realize you don't need to replace. Straws was in this category for me. We had a couple things of Straws, but we rarely ever used them at the time so we didn't really need reusable Straws that everyone was telling me I had to buy. But say you are using paper towels, we went to cloth reusable paper towels, figured out those were cute but didn't work well, and found some kitchen towels in the decluttering and it was like, this is stupid. We have towels, we'll use those. Lol. Donated the fabric "paper" towels, and eventually most of the cloth napkins too. For things like pet accidents, I don't feel guilty at all occasionally using some toilet paper to clean it up and I no longer need to buy paper towels. Once you figure out how to deal with the one item, when you run out of the one thing, buy the replacement, and then look at the trash can again. Hopefully these ideas can help make sense. Your quilt is beautiful!

I appreciate your conversation about being an eco warrior. We should all give each other encouragement and grace and you definitely did that. I also love this quilt and your aesthetic in general. Thank you for sharing 😊