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July 30, 2012 5:04 PM

Quiltsrÿche Who needs dope licks when you have fussy cuts? Boo Davis's punk and metal inspired-quilts. This ain't your granny's rock-and-roll muslin.

Also check out her book Dare to Be Square, and learn make your own. Flickr pool.

posted by MiltonRandKalman (17 comments total)

Boo's a she (http://www.quiltsryche.com/quiltsryche/about.html), but I do love her work.
posted by Tesseractive at 5:16 PM on July 30, 2012

I used to do this when I was a youthful stoner and my eyes were good.

Better to quilt while you're a head.
posted by hal9k at 5:23 PM on July 30, 2012

I love these.
posted by peppermind at 5:23 PM on July 30, 2012

My mom had this cross stitch on her wall: "Blessed are the guilt makers".

Oops, I mean "Quilt makers".
posted by Mojojojo at 5:41 PM on July 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

For a moment, I thought this post was about this guy.
posted by Kitty Stardust at 5:41 PM on July 30, 2012 [2 favorites]

See also: Heavy Bedding.
posted by zamboni at 5:41 PM on July 30, 2012

You know what they say: quilters never prosper.
posted by ODiV at 5:56 PM on July 30, 2012

I am convinced there is an untapped niche for a Ravelry-like site for quilters. Quilting keeps seeming >< this close to getting the revival that knitting and crochet have had over the past few years. I think eventually it'll break out big time.
posted by rmd1023 at 5:57 PM on July 30, 2012

God bless the quilters of The Beast.

\m/
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 6:02 PM on July 30, 2012

These are effing awesome. I was just thinking yesterday that I think quilts are generally ugly. Then this post comes along and now I want a quilt. Whether I do it myself with help from her book, or order a custom one, I will have a rock quilt. I knew there was a reason for collecting Bowie shirts that I never wear.
posted by youngergirl44 at 7:36 PM on July 30, 2012

Right. Now I know what I want to do with the sewing machine that's been sitting unused on my desk since I got it.
posted by gracedissolved at 8:00 PM on July 30, 2012

old yahoo advert

full disclosure: edited by the company I used to work for.
posted by matt_od at 8:51 PM on July 30, 2012

also, Kitty Stardust:
that guy used to live in the room I currently inhabit in my apartment.
posted by matt_od at 8:53 PM on July 30, 2012 [1 favorite]

Don't ever trust... the knitting needle, it lies!
posted by Renoroc at 5:00 AM on July 31, 2012

Aww, yes. This was just the inspiration I needed.

I took an intro to quilting class at my local quilting store. I was the youngest person in the class by a margin of about 40 years. Everyone used the same pattern - a sampler lap-sized quilt - but chose their own fabrics.

Most of the group gravitated towards the florals. In a moment of rebellion, I picked out coordinating fabrics with skulls, flames and tiny dots that were actually screwheads, and dubbed the resulting bad-ass quilt my "Bad Reputation" quilt. The other ladies in the class all loved it.
posted by deadtrouble at 6:04 AM on July 31, 2012 [1 favorite]

Mod note: Swapped a pronoun. Quilt on!
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:26 AM on July 31, 2012

These. Are. The. Best. Things.
posted by mindsound at 11:38 AM on July 31, 2012