KatyQuilts

Sorry to let you know so late, but there is free shipping on any order at AccuQuilt until midnight tonight, Central Time!

And the deal of the day is this cute Coffee and Tea medley die!

Have a great night!

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I said this project needed a name so, Carl it is! I have my four strips done.

And I set them with the green strips in between.

I tried narrow yellow borders at the top and bottom, but that didn’t work. I’ll add green borders all around and the top will be done.

Have a great day!

This photo shows one column all put together, but not yet squared off. I thought I’d show you how I’m doing that.

I took my ruler and sliced it!

I made sure I cut between points.

Then I just switched the two pieces around and stitched one last diagonal seam.

I may go back and trim so those points are a quarter inch from the edge.

Ta daaaa!

Two down, two to go.

Before I get back to sewing, it isn’t too late to register for today’s AccuQuilt Live program!

Hope to see you there! Have a great day!

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I’ve been debating a new project with this die, so I took a little time out from the leader/ender project to give it a go.

My thought was to use repro 30s fabrics for the Star points and different solids for the background.

I decided to make a block to try it out. There are no set in seams with this block. You make 4 of each triangle as shown below.

Sew 4 units like this.

Rotate and sew together to form the Star.

Very easy. But I could have had my center come together better if I had paid more attention to pressing.

It’s okay, but I’m not in love with it. Maybe because the version in my mind was scrappier. It will get set aside for now.

Have a great day!

It’s almost time!

I’ve been setting aside things to take to AZ ever since we got back! But we are flying rather than driving, so many of those things will wait. But you know I’m packing some quilting stuff. Here is one of my suitcases.

Lots of dies and some fabric, pantographs, a few UFOs, and two books.

I didn’t spend as much time getting projects organized and prepared to take this time. Now that I have a decent stash there, I don’t really need to. It is more about deciding if I want to finish a current project now or later.

The joy of having a house there, is that I don’t have to pack any clothes!

Here are our carryons.

I better get back to work.

Have a great day!

I cut all the little triangles needed for the sides of my strips.

This is the die I used. It is a bit oversized.

This is how I stitch them to the ends of the strips.

All the seams in each row are pressed in the same direction. Then by flip flopping pieces, I end up with all intersections nesting.

I do end up trimming just a bit. It really doesn’t take long.

Time to lay out strips! I’m grabbing and sewing here. My only goal is to not have like fabrics next to each other.

I’m loving this so far!

The chrome yellow looks great with the green.

Back to work! Have a great day!

Progress is being made!

I’ve finished sewing all the strips of squares needed for this quilt. It appears I still have plenty of 2” squares in the bin.

I think this is what I will focus my sewing time on until we head west. Time for the next step.

But before I start sewing, today is a die release AccuQuilt Live program! I’m very excited as you might just catch a project from yours truly. 😁 click here to register.

There will also be give always and special pricing on new dies and bundles. Get the details on the deals here.

Have a great day!

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