Thank you all so much for all your sweet comments about our sweet Momma Mim. Your kindness and prayers are appreciated more than you know. I’m so sorry, but I’m feeling unable to respond to individual comments at the moment. Everything feels hard.
I don’t really have much else to say, so I’m just going to post pictures for a while.
My sweet mother in love has passed into eternity.
In her last days, she sang this song.
What a Day!
There is coming a day,
When no heart aches shall come,
No more clouds in the sky,
No more tears to dim the eye,
All is peace forever more,
On that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day that will be,
When my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand,
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
There’ll be no sorrow there,
No more burdens to bear,
No more sickness, no pain,
No more parting over there;
And forever I will be,
With the One who died for me,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day that will be,
When my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand,
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be
~~~~~~~~~
Nine years ago, my dad and father in law passed within two days of each other.
Now my mom and mother in love have passed exactly three weeks apart.
Mr. Wonderful and I are now both orphans. The world feels different.
It’s a wonder I finished anything this month. But I did!
First up is my Fancy Four Patch quilt.
This little impromptu table topper was fun.
And this was finished some months ago, but the pattern was released this month so now I can call it a finish.
Have a great day!
This massive quilt is quilted and trimmed and the binding is in process.
I even made some progress on my America 250 quilt.
It sure feels good to have moved forward on these two projects.
Have a great day!
I follow this account on Instagram. I think this could be the perfect getaway cottage!
Isn’t it adorable?
In case you are wondering, here is the bathroom.
What do you think? Could you live here? I think I could! As long as I could get internet and Amazon deliveries.
Have a great day!
I always check the book section when we go thrifting. This one caught my eye. I did leave it there. 😂
I finished another puzzle. Sadly, it was missing a piece.
This was from my fortune cookie at our favorite Chinese restaurant. I’ll take that.
And I leave you with this good word.
Have a great day
Did you see? AccuQuilt has released a new Curved Log Cabin BOB die! I got my hands on it early and created a pattern called Modern Lily.
And here it is!
Before I stitched the blocks together, I had a lot of fun playing around on the design wall.
But this layout won out.
This die has so many possibilities. You can get your own by clicking here.
Have a great day!
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Here is a post from ten years ago with lessons learned. Enjoy!
Posted on June 17, 2016 by katyquilts
No, I’m not in Hawaii. I am in Arizona! Yay! But Hubby and I did go to Hawaii a few years back with his parents. It was a wonderful trip. I bought some Hawaiian fabric and a book on Hawaiian quilts. Have I ever mentioned how I feel about appliqué? Um, yeah. I cut out exactly one block and fused it to the background with Heat N Bond.
And it never got any farther than this. Heat N Bond is not a good product for this application. Not for me anyway. I never did stitch around the edges because it gummed up my machine needle.
Anyway, I recently found this ancient UFO and decided it might be a fun piece to practice with on the long arm. I wouldn’t be bothered if I ended up throwing it out. You have to just play now and then.
So I loaded it up and tried out a border idea I had. So far, so good. Then I stitched along the edges of the appliqué. Not so good. The speed of the needle heats up and causes the glue to get gummy. This means skipped stitches at best. After cleaning the needle several times, I got around it once and called it good. Then I practiced pebbling in the background.
I am not good at this. But knowing it would be better when I wasn’t so close, I soldiered on and bound it by machine. Here it is before washing.
Okay, better than I expected but I wanted to wash and see how the fusing held up. The answer? Not good. Not at all. And it didn’t help that I failed to stitch around those little openings.
Yeah, that was awful.
But I loved the texture of the border and background.
So I figured I would try to salvage the mess. I used my walking foot to stitch around the little openings. Then I ironed the darn thing into submission.
I think it worked! Not a masterpiece by any stretch, but I rather like it now. I think I’ll keep it. The picture above shows the texture well but the one below shows the actual color best.
I learn something from every piece I make.
Looks like great minds think alike! I asked a friend at quilt group yesterday and she agreed. The Bauhaus design won. Thanks for the input.
Apparently, I also have a new helper at the long arm. So much for my pressing job. I guess I need to buy a dog bed for the sewing room.
Back to quilting. I got a couple rows done and on the third row, I messed up the alignment and had to rip. 😭 I got all the ripping done, but I didn’t have the heart to quilt anymore and went to bed.
Some days are like that. Have a good one.
Once I got my alternate blocks cut, I got down to business!
The top is done and loaded.
But I can’t figure out how to quilt this monster. These are the three pantographs I’m considering.
I’m looking for a mid century modern feel. any thoughts?
Have a great day!
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