Idk if this ask went through … So picture Beri and Genild the avid quilters. They met at a quilting bee/quilter’s meeting. So cute. Such a practical and pretty activity. They make quilts as gifts. Jeri has so many. Dain got a pig quilt or three. Quilts for royal baby. Dis has a line-of-Durin quilt.

I didn’t see it, sorry about that! *glares at tumblr*

Aww, I can see Beri taking up quilting, after Jeri is grown and they’ve gone up in the world, and she’s no longer a soldier and has the leisure time and the funds to take up a hobby… but my sincere apologies, Nonnie, it’s not Genild’s sort of thing at all!! 

But here’s this: I can imagine Beri trying to teach her… and Genild glaring at it. Like, forever. Because urgh, fiddly, and takes-too-long and MAHAL ALREADY can she go do something that isn’t sitting down for hours and stabbing herself in the thumb a hundred bloody times?

Beri would finish off the quilts, chuckling to herself, probably, as she unpicked every clumsy stitch. 

(the sounds of Genild huffily smacking pots about in the kitchen as she begins on “something useful” – translation: cooking up a batch of her spicy fish stew -echo down the hallway. It sounds rather as though Genild is using the pots and pans as practice weaponry. Beri would grin down

just a little wider

at the half-finished quilt on her lap. She has negative amounts of stillness, Beri’s darling wife. Always has to be up on her feet!)

bubbysbub:

morvidra:

@determamfidd – all the dwarf quilting talk on your blog reminded me to post this:

The Iron Hills Patchwork Tote Bag 

(“I Dream Of Jagged Rusty Skies”)

… this is what happens when I go to a craft show with the Iron Hills Soldiers’ Song stuck in my head so it is All Your Fault.

I want to make dwarf inspired quilts too, now!!!

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AUGH OMG FEE THAT IS BEAUTIFUL, AUGH IT IS PERFECTION, THE RED-RUST MOUNTAINS AND THE SKYYYY oh my GOSH can I commission one, I LOVE IT SO MUCH

Bubs, my dear friend, that would – oh my gosh – I am completely SPEECHLESS, you better show me if you do

you amazing clever people, you are an inspiration and I love you all to bits ❤