KatyQuilts

I decided to move ahead, even though my palette is rather boring. I have enough blocks cut out for a wheel chair quilt.

I decided to go with the higher contrast fabric.

They started is half done. 😊

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I’ve had this die for a while. I think it’s high time I try it out!

This little bundle would make a nice donation quilt for a guy.

I thought I’d use Kona Stone for the background.

But maybe this is better.

Hmmmm…. Maybe it’s all too boring.

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I shared a while back that my local quilt group was doing a Christmas in July project. This was where I was at after our first work day.

At the next work day, we sewed blocks.

And now my little top is on the frame.

I decided on matchstick quilting.

I’m nearing the finish line! Have a great day

Mister Wonderful took me to my first gem and mineral show up in Prescott last weekend. As you can see, I got into a bit of trouble.

The finished pieces I saw there were incredible, but I went looking for rough. I was not disappointed. It will be fun to work with these when it cools down a bit here.

Afterwards, we had to stop in to our favorite pizza place.

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I’m thinking about doing something with this orphan piece. I don’t know what, just thinking.

My current read is this cozy mystery. It is mindless reading, perfect for when you can’t sleep.

I made this with one of my grandsons. It’s a good sensory activity.

A good word.

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I made this green dog quilt a number of years ago. You can read about it here. It was given to an animal rescue for a fund raiser. I still love it.

So it was inspiration for my new grandson’s quilt. It’s been a while so I tried pinning the bias tape to my ironing board to form the dog shape. This looks terrible!

I decided to just work directly on the background that I had already quilted. Better, but I still didn’t like it.

I realized that I needed to work on a lower table than my ironing board and that helped immensely. This is closer!

Stay tuned.

I was given this block a few years ago by a friend. Her applique is wonderful! So nice, that I’m afraid I will ruin it.

But I’ve been pondering how to finish it. I think it might need a border is HSTs.

I don’t like the scrappy look of these HSTs, but they were handy to try out some ideas.

See the white print below? That is the background of the applique. I don’t have anything that matches. I thought I’d make my triangle from the red and solid white shown below.

Maybe red and green triangles?

I’m not in love with either of these. I think I need to start looking for a fabric that matches the background better.

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I’ve started something new. We are looking forward to our seventh grandson, due this month! This quilt is constructed a bit backwards.

I quilted it first.

The design with be done with this.

And this will be the binding.

Back to work.

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