Joy during oppression - Stephen Towns's mixed media quilting art portrays and celebrates family and community during a time of racial segregation in the American South, and his work calls back to the stunning quilts made by Black Southern women.
#art #MixedMedia #quilting #TextileArt #FiberArt

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stephen-towns-safer-waters-textiles-exhibition/

Joy during oppression - Stephen Towns's mixed media quilting art portrays and celebrates family and community during a time of racial segregation in the American South, and his work calls back to the stunning quilts made by Black Southern women.
#art #MixedMedia #quilting #TextileArt #FiberArt

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stephen-towns-safer-waters-textiles-exhibition/

I’ve posted this before, but in case you missed it…
📍The eye of a hand sewing needle is larger on one side, than the other.
If you have trouble threading your needle, try turning it around. 🪡🧵

I can’t count how many times knowing this has been helpful!! 👏

#quilting #sewing #handstitching #QuiltTip

I’ve posted this before, but in case you missed it…
📍The eye of a hand sewing needle is larger on one side, than the other.
If you have trouble threading your needle, try turning it around. 🪡🧵

I can’t count how many times knowing this has been helpful!! 👏

#quilting #sewing #handstitching #QuiltTip

Saturday handquilting progress. I have a busy day tomorrow, so there won’t be any handquilting. I will start the border squares in the next couple of days. I getting excited to get this one finished. #quilting #StarTrek

Saturday handquilting progress. I have a busy day tomorrow, so there won’t be any handquilting. I will start the border squares in the next couple of days. I getting excited to get this one finished. #quilting #StarTrek

My last quilt top of 2025 ~

Early on, when AI came for quilts, you could tell because it'd use hyper-realistic jewel tone colors in the too perfect to be true designs. Browns and oranges were especially popular, probably because the AI was sucking up images of traditional quilts made with warm color fabrics

That's why I chose this color scheme and made this wallhanging deliberately, overtly wonky. Those are *my* hands and this is *human* crafted

#FuckAI for stealing from artists

#Quilting

It has taken me several hours but the door controls and the Star Trek emblem have been appliquéd. I’m waiting for backing fabric to arrive and then I can start handquilting. #StarTrek #quilting

It has taken me several hours but the door controls and the Star Trek emblem have been appliquéd. I’m waiting for backing fabric to arrive and then I can start handquilting. #StarTrek #quilting

Please don’t use pool noodles to store your quilts

Just read yet another quilt blogger recommend this, but that foam the noodles are made from can degrade over time into a slimy gel. Can’t really get across how bad it is in words, it’s so gross 🤮

I fear we’re going to lose a whole generation of quilts to the damage these noodles can cause

#Quilting

Please don’t use pool noodles to store your quilts

Just read yet another quilt blogger recommend this, but that foam the noodles are made from can degrade over time into a slimy gel. Can’t really get across how bad it is in words, it’s so gross 🤮

I fear we’re going to lose a whole generation of quilts to the damage these noodles can cause

#Quilting