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Placket quilt in high speed!

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April 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Our community quilt, Vermie, is complete! Since the last block was added, we’ve pieced, quilted, and finished it and we’re thrilled to announce Vermie will be featured in Portland Textile Month this October.
We’ll share details soon!
#portlandtextilemonth #thereprintery
#vermiequilt
August 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Setting up Sonne Batik and this is the last glimpse of the quilt back before it’s forever sandwiched! At www.pdxsewlarium.com for the better part of the day! #longarmquilting #quiltsky #thereprintery
Michelle walks in front of the longarm that’s set up with brightly colored batiks.
April 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Oh, the magical backside…!
(Cubical quilt)
#quilting #sustainablequilting #thereprintery
The backside of the Cubicle 2” quilt blocks shown on the ironing board. Stripes, plaids, ginghams, chambrays and the seam allowance peaking around has the added prints we reprint of checks and stripes and dots.
April 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Smaller pieces are fun to puzzle together to maximize print use!
#garmentsewing #thereprintery ##sustainablefashion #quiltsky #printmaking
Tops down view of the press bed with the stripe pattern inked in a bright red. Ready to print are shirt yoke pieces.
February 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Printing #libertyoflondon #tanalawn for #thepatchworkcollective. We printed the purple. Dot over these fan blocks that include some Reprintery fabrics too. Learn more here

www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/...

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February 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Thanks to everyone who came out to see an and pin a square to our Vermie Community Quilt at Cargo! It was also the first run use of our DIY hand quilting frame.

And… Come visit us at the reception at K+M this Thursday!

#vermiecommunityquilt #thereprintery #portlandtextilemonth #quiltsky #printsky
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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It’s a pop-up shop and you’re invited!
We’ve got some shirt pieces for you to use in quilts, reuse projects, mending, appliqué or whatever!
Sunday, October 26

Josephines Dry Goods 
2609 SE Clinton St.
11-2

#thereprintery #reuse #quiltsky
A bundle of rolled shirt fabrics that look like a bouquet of flowers.
October 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We print on paper sometimes too.
#printmaking #linocut #printsky #thereprintery
Pinned up to the white Studio wall Cream color paper printed with our Lino plates of big polkadots and grids in blues and aqua teal colors.
March 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The drying rack with Thread Through quilt parts ❤️
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A wire clothes drying rack on an angle from above. On each line hangs a reprinted vintage fan block as well as some blue shirt pieces printed with 1” polka dots.
March 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Sewing “Cubicle” quilt here. No way to get away from eventually sewing a long strip!
#quiltsky #quilting #sustainablefashion #textileart #thereprintery #uppercasemagazine
Studio wall on an angled shot to get the whole wall in. On the white wall is pinned 8 sets of strips of Cubicle quilt. Sewn 16 patch blocks with printed shirt fabrics in colorful pattern.
April 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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We went shirt shopping to help quell our tariff anxiety. Getting ready to start a new series!
#newbeginnings #makinglemonade #usewhatyouhave #bemindful #thereprintery #sustainablefashion
A wicker laundry basket sits on the wood floor overflowing with laundered thrifted plaid shirts in a variety of colors, mostly blues-ish
April 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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We mostly use Gamblin relief printing ink, and I wish those came in a tube because of the driers in the ink. We do also use tubes of Cranfield, but they take so long to dry. Can’t we have it both ways?
#printmaking #printsky #thereprintery #linoleum #quiltsky #modernquilting
March 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Here is a rack of drying prints. The oil based ink we use takes a few days or more to dry, depending on which brand ink we use. Gamblin has more driers than the Cranfield inks.
#printmaking #surfacedesign #pattern #thereprintery #artsky #quiltsky
A wire clothes drying rack is filled w colorful shirt parts reprinted with polka dots and checkers. Peach pink, grass green dominate the palette.
February 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Some steely blues 💙
#printmaking #prints #surfacedesign #thereprintery #blue #patterndesign
From above, a selection of folded, printed shirt parts in a variety of blue chambrays and oxfords. Printed polkadot, checker and grid in a selection of soft neutral blues.
February 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Lucky Black Cat Friday to you! Buddy was persistent in being present while we laid out these Sonne quilt blocks on the floor, determining the best layout. These are old batik strike-off samples
#sonnequilt #thereprintery #usewhatyouhave #sustainability #blackcats #catsofbsky #quiltsky #catsandquilts
Buddy, a fluffy 3legged black cat sits on the brightly colored Sonne quilt blocks being organized on the floor. He stares into the camera with this big green eyes.
April 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Working out an idea with a partial batiks collection Charlotte designed years ago and now making a quilt from the strike off pieces she kept. She keeps or donates all the strikes of all the collections to keep them out of the garbage.

#usewhatyouhave #reuse #thereprintery #quilting #batik
A wood table with colorful batik swatches grouped in pairs. Reds, yellows, greens, pinks, oranges, teals, purple and some with white.
April 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Guess we missed St. Patty’s day! This would have been perfect.
💚🍀
#grassgreen #polkadot #sewing #envy #printmaking #wetink #thereprintery
A batch of green polkadot and striped prints on the metal clothes drying rack. Plaids and stripes and checks are reprinted as well as some white paper cards.
March 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Sonne quilt first started as a quick rubber stamp idea for a gift of printed napkins (on left). It’s been refined and made into an appliqué quilt now, too! Isn’t it fun to see where an idea take us?
#creativeprocess #ideadevelopment #thereprintery #printsky #linocut
Pink pattern printed on orange fabric. Lino carving of the Sonne pattern on a 10” square block. Three Lino tools rest nearby
April 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Happy Friday everyone! What makes us happy? Well, for one thing this logo patch sewn to our quilts! What do you put on your creations?
#quiltlabel #logo #thereprintery #quiltsky #printsky
Close up of the back corner of a Vermie Iteration quilt, the backing being a pink/yellow/orange/teal/green/red thrifted sheet, sewn with a blue/white gingham quilt label w printed logo THE REPRINTERY-Portland Oregon
March 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Printed samples for the Work Shirts Reworked series. #workshirtsreworked #textileprint #sustainability #textilereuse #garmentsewing #quilting #thereprintery
A stack of printed fabric samples made from thrifted men’s work shirts. These shirts have been Reprinted (overprinted) with lavender stripes and teal polka dots.
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Michelle holding up the “Placket” quilt at dusk in the back yard so it made the quilt look even more glowing and magical (but it IS magical)! Made from 30 different reprinted, thrifted shirts ☺️🪡🧵
#thereprintery #textilereuse #upcycle #quiltsky #printmaking #quilting #sustainablequilting
A large colorful quilt in a Jacob’s ladder pattern held up by Michelle. It’s so big that she is standing on a higher level of the back yard, draping the quilt over a 2’ wall that drops to a lower level in the yard. She has a big grin on her face, as the quilt was just finished!
April 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Working on sewing some Vermie Iteration. Happy Saturday! What are you up to? #vermieiteration #thereprintery #sewing #quilting #sustainability #usewhatyouhave #quiltsky
Sewing close up showing the backside of the Vermie Iteration quilt which is printed on shirts in shades on blue and white. The seams are clipped together w pink and aqua binding clips. The wood table has a woven red/white/black decorative table runner. The white Juki machine lights up the area being sewn.
March 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The weight of a quilt top on our lap is most satisfying. Michelle likes to press-alternate her seams, Charlotte tends to press them open. Which style to prefer?

#sewingquilts #seamstress #homesewing #printsky #thereprintery #quiltsky #sustainablefashion
Viewed from above, sewing on a white Juki-TL180VP, multiple rows of 2.5” squares sewn together as the Cubicle quilt, described in several previous posts. Colorful woven thrifted shirts reprinted w colorful prints
February 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Sonne quilt is made with a no-waste appliqué method, leaving no scraps behind. We’re developing even more ideas based on this concept, & we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be teaching this concept this summer Stay tuned! #wellwellprojects
#NoWasteQuilting #quiltsky #thereprintery #upcyclequilting
Sonne is a bright yellow quilt top in a graphic pattern and shown here hanging from a stick resting on a tall ladder in front of a white wall, as we were hanging the show “A Thread Thru-works in process” this past December at wellwellprojects.com.
April 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM