KatyQuilts

I love hiking in Arizona! We went to Lost Dutchman State Park with Daughter #2 this week.

It was gorgeous!

Ahhhh……so good to be in the desert. 😊

Have a great weekend!

We are home in Arizona!

And it is every bit as beautiful as I remembered. We are still getting settled in.

I had lots of blog posts written and scheduled ahead of time, but I probably won’t ever get caught up on responding to all of your recent, sweet comments. I did read them all and will try to answer questions soon.

The pups were awesome little travelers, but they are very happy to be home too.

Have a great day!

Lori at Humble Quilts recently held a quilt along. I always join in on these! She does a great job and I always end up with something I love. Here are my blocks.

If they seem a little bit big, they are. Lori made 6 inch blocks and I made mine 8 inches. I did that because I had pieces cut that would work, but they were bigger. Works for me! Here is the layout.

Lori’s blocks are much scrappier than mine and I like hers better. But I still love this enough that I’m thinking about making more blocks!

It’s my favorite color combo!

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I ended up using the vintage purple solid for the setting triangles. I think it works.

I like it, but not enough to hand quilt. The baskets were machine pieced and the handles were appliqued by machine as well. So I loaded it up on the long arm.

This is getting my wonky crosshatch. It fits these wonky blocks.

Have a great day!

The quilting has begun, though not without issues. All of my own doing. 🙄

It doesn’t show up real well in these photos.

I now have five of the fifteen blocks quilted.

My backing and batting are barely big enough. I had several blocks quilted before I realized I had a seam on the back of the backing facing outward. Ugh. I’m soldiering on and will figure out what to do with that later.

Have a great day!

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen most of this already. A couple weeks ago, I took a free online class from Emily at Em’s Scrapbag. She shared a free pattern for her Jumbo Scrappy Star.

I have lots of solid scraps and decided to play along. It was a bit harder than I thought!

I started with the design above and then totally scrapped it and tried the one below.

I went back to the star, with a different layout.

Finally, I just sewed it together with this Kona Steel that I bought for a different project.

I’m mostly happy with this. I think I’ll love it after quilting.

Have a great day!

I’m not sure where I acquired these basket blocks. I tried to sell them on my virtual garage sale, but I had no takers. They were a hot mess!

I decided to square them up. They lost a lot of points!

I rummaged through the stash and found this vintage purple. It had once been a home sewn bedspread.

There was a large printed ruffle. I used that for the center blocks.

I may use the rest for the side triangles. We’ll see.

Have a great day!

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