🍁 Islay Ford 🍂
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islayford.bsky.social
🍁 Islay Ford 🍂
@islayford.bsky.social
Made of bones and stardust. Quilter. Writer. Friend. Weirdy. Finding my joy one skeet at a time.
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Enough engaging with people who will never be whole decent people and more cutting and piecing fabric for my own quilt design.

Making a test quilt because I can’t write the pattern out w/o making one first. It’s how my brain flows.

#quilting #quiltsky
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Am I about to brave this pattern by Lo&Behold Stitchery? Actually cut into the fabric I got with the kit (from DH last friggin year) for the cover quilt instead of just longingly looking at both and then putting them away?

MAYBE?! FINALLY?!

Or will my #adhd brain derail me

#quilting #quiltsky
September 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Back to things that make me smile and forget all the cascading putrid garbage.

Soul Dog Buddy, miss you lil man.
September 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We went to the Academy Museum this past weekend for the opening of the Jaws exhibit and it did not disappoint! This might be my favorite movie poster on display.

I also got to visit the exhibit for prod designers Greenwood & Spencer. Barbie! Anna Karenina! Pride & Prejudice!

🦈 🩷
September 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Some of my recent makes. The tote bag is the Altoona Tote by Ma Tante Quilting and the other two are the Everest Belt Bag by Center Street Quilts. Sewing is one of the things keeping me sane in my current iteration. 🥹🩷
#quilting #bagmaking #quiltsky
September 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We lost our very best friend and soul dog, Buddy. If you noticed my being MIA, that’s why.

He was the very best companion.

He survived heart failure 3 yrs ago and I like to think he stuck around extra just for us. Because he knew we needed him.

My heart is shattered. Idk when I’ll be back here.
April 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hello, my name is Buddy.

But I also go by: Budric, Buddaroo, Bud von Dogenstein, Floofers the Stinky, and more.

Despite appearances, I am not in fact yelling at my mom in this photo. I would never be so undignified. In reality I am NOM’ng hard on a soup bone, as one does.

#revpit waiting day 9
March 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Sup #revpit waiting friends
Day 5
Just a smol snippet totally context free 💀☀️❤️‍🩹
March 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I’ve never done a moodboard or collage for a project. But here we are with my #revpit waiting for Day4 😅
Aesthetics for Boy of the Summer 🩷 t

(Take two because my brain is only half here lol)
March 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I started this patchwork simple bag almost two weeks ago. Would be nice to at least finish it. #quiltsky #quilting #fibromyalgia
March 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I need to end my night on a positive note. So here’s me paying the pet tax. My lil Buddy is my soul dog. He has saved my life and I wish I could speak that in his ear in a way he’d understand.
Instead I will give him snuggles and a treat and promise him I will get up tomorrow because it’s a new day.
February 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A bit of joy and hope.

Doing one thing each day to remind me of joy and hope. I wish I could remember who I nabbed this from on IG but I’d buy them a beer/coffee/tea if I could.
February 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m such a fangirl of Erica @ KitchenTableQuilting on IG.

She’s a brilliant pattern designer and seems like such a lovely human.

I suspect we are close in age but tbh I wanna be like her when I “grow up” haha

🩷 #quiltsky #quilting
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Working on a little something something. ADHD quilt life means I flit between projects. I also need to clear space to sandwich a couple quilt tops so I can quilt them. But last night my wild brain said “no! Make a brand new thing! Right now!” Lol
#quiltsky #quilting #artisresistance
February 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Anyways. I’m gathering materials to make a couple of these for myself and friends once my body cooperates. #MaTanteQuilting made this delightful pattern. Who doesn’t like easy access to their glasses or sunnies? 😍 #quiltsky #quilting #protectyourpeace
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I suppose I should actually sew this top together? I could finally knock out one UFO early this year and feel like I’ve done something lol i love #tulapink fabrics so much 😍 #quiltsky #quilting #fibromyalgia
January 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is what I get for not deleting that other app and opening it on reflex. People who assume that words have no meaning. Hurkle durkle isn’t some Dr Suess silliness - it’s a Scots phrase that’s been around for 200 ish years but go off I guess.
January 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hey @disneymama.bsky.social I’m curating my quilt photos and now I miss you more 😭
January 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Doggo as palette cleanser. I love him so much I don’t have words. #BudricVonBuddenstein
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM