Moth Eaten Quilt

Case Study
Quilt with blue circular patches and white stitched motifs

  • Linen, naturally dyed. The blue is with Indigo a cutch afterbath.

    Hand quilted with thick ivory sashiko thread.

    The crewel embroidery is made with 100% wool crewel yarns.

  • This quilt was pieced with a machine and hand embroidered and quilted. The linen was hand dyed by the artist.

    This was hand quilted with thick Sashiko style thread using the stitch in the ditch method.

    The binding is machine stitched on the front and hand tacked on the back to hide the stitches with mitered corners.

    The back is naturally dyed linen constructed out of fabric remnants.

Learn to make this quilt

Curved snowball quilt is inspired by the traditional snowball block but is also similar to the drunkards path blocks. Each block is composed of four quarter circles with a center piece.

his quilt is composed of 135 blocks in a 15x9 layout. Several blocks are embroidered with wool crewel embroidery

Made of 100% linen. The blue is dyed with indigo and cutch.

  • Color matching

  • Design sketches

  • sample block idea

  • drawing the pattern

  • Cutting the block pieces

  • sample blocks

  • Cutting circles

  • Cutting pieces

  • chain stitching

  • Cutting

  • block layout

  • Me

  • creating a circle

  • Concept sketches

  • Concept art

  • Crewelwork

  • Shades of Gallant

  • First embroidery sample

  • Making a lot of blocks

  • The most amount of quarter circles

  • Pinning and Sewing circles

  • me

  • Pinning all at once

  • more moths in crewel

  • Favorite Moth: Silk Moth

  • Old and New playing well

  • quilt front complete

  • quilt front

  • Dogs on quilt. Juno always finds the quilt

  • quilt back

  • Preparing for basting

  • pin basting

  • basted

  • basted and ready for stitching

  • Designing the quilt stitches

  • First quilt stitches

  • stitches on the quilt back

  • quilt back stitches

  • child and dog

  • quiltback

  • curved snowball

  • color stories in my house

  • stitching

  • quilting the moths

  • quilt stitching complete

  • binding

  • binding

  • quilt curtain in use

  • black on black in the kitchen

  • quilt back with pocket to hang quilt curtain in the door

  • quilt curtain

  • with the Barn Owls and Hollyhock Wallpaper from Thatcher studio