KatyQuilts

This little guy spent the night last week and we had fun playing in the leaves.

This was a fun news story from my high school.

It’s a strange time of year to buy sandals, unless you are going to Arizona soon.

It has been cold here, so these two have been keeping each other warm.

In the spirit of learning new things, hubby and I took a lesson at the range. Target practice is fun!

Before I go, ‘it’s the season of sales! Connecting Threads has a sale n kits.

And AccuQuilt has some great deals as well.

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Here is a post from almost four years ago. I still love this one! Enjoy a look back with me.

Originally Posted on July 26, 2019 by katyquilts

This quilt was started 25 years ago. I got templates from Sharlene Jorgenson. Anyone remember her? After piecing nine blocks, I gave up. The intersections are awful but I had too much invested in it to throw it away!

So now it is quilted.

I have pulled it out and put it away countless times over the years.

Finally, I appliqued it to the gray background and quilted it. The backing wasn’t a great choice, but it was handy.

I can’t believe it’s finally done!

Even more amazing, I like it!

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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.

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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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