KatyQuilts

Remember when I cut these blocks out?

I finally started working on them.

These are 6” blocks and are so easy to piece.

One would think this would be farther along by now. But progress is still progress.

Have a great day!

I told my husband I wanted to try out couching. He said I was already pretty good at it. 🙄

Anyway, I got these couching feet for my long arm a few years ago.

I used some cheap muslin and a batting scrap and quilted a grid for a base.

There are video tutorials on couching and I watched a few before starting. Then I grabbed some cheap acrylic yarn.

Hmmm…..I need practice, but I can see the potential here.

Filling in that cactus took a while. My barrel cactus just looks like a ball of yarn. 😂

This is what the back looks like.

I forgot an apostrophe. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Oh, well. Next I decided to see what would happen after a trip through the wash.

I was worried about distortion, but it seemed to come out okay.

I’ll definitely be playing with this some more soon.

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I haven’t forgotten this!

I did set it aside for quite a while, but I’m back to it.

I press after each row that I add.

I found part of a layer cake and I think I will cut some more pieces from it for this.

These are the dies I use.

I think I want this to be a good throw size. I should probably make more “blocks” like this and then piece those together at the end. This is getting a bit unwieldy.

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I loved this book so much, I had a copy sent to my mom.

My sweet AZ neighbor sent me these photos of one of our cactuses blooming! It’s so pretty!

I always feel like somebody’s watching me 🎵🎶….

Peeps are cute, but disgusting. These are probably worst than most. Who thought this was a good idea?

In case you were wondering, Oscar is still around. Though he’s felt a bit neglected since the Harley came along.

I changed the quilt on my bed. I love the texture in the morning light.

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Much sewing has been happening around here! Mario is all pieced.

Well, all except for some plain borders.

Now I’m working on a top for E2. He wanted the Piranha plant from the Mario game. It is half pieced.

I found Mario sheets to use for the backing of these quilts. Hopefully I can get the plant top finished today and Mario loaded on the long arm tomorrow.

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I finally started my Christmas sewing. I wanted it done by Thanksgiving and just realized that is only two weeks away.

I’m on a mission to knock out this top, this week. I’m using 2 1/2” squares and a cross stitch pattern to make this.

Because this boy needs a Mario quilt.

It looks so much better after sewing.

Back to sewing! Have a great day !

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About a week ago, I came across this string bin. Ugh. I nearly emptied the whole thing in the trash.

Then I decided to piece some together. I have no real plan here.

Finding strips of similar size was frustrating. So I started pressing and sorting.

This took forever!

But it was helpful. I started sewing similar size strips together.

I still have many strips left to sew and no idea what I’ll do with these panels.

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This is where I was when you saw this last.

I’ve left this up on the design wall trying to decide where to go from here. I started thinking about using alternate blocks.

Maybe a plain border, instead of the pieced one in the original.

Blue?

Maybe this?

Thinking, thinking, thinking….

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