KatyQuilts

It won’t be long now and we will be heading back to the desert! Yay! That means it’s time to prep some projects. Here are a few I’m taking.

I took apart a top I made years ago with these vintage blocks. I hope to get them put back together with this solid.

Aunt Martha will be tagging along.

I brought this home in the spring and wondered why. I have a much bigger design wall in AZ.

These are leftovers. I think they will make a fun little design project.

This looks like a mess, but I do have a plan!

I have 36 Kaffe fat quarters that I’ve never cut into. I want to decide on a plan and get these chopped up before I go. I’m thinking of doing either hexagons or snowballs.

No idea what do do with these. I’ll have my GO! Cutter so I can decide later.

I’m sure there will be more.

Have a great day!

My readers are just the best! Roseanne just left this comment and I had to share with you all.

Hi Katy! I’m a little late to the party but ready to start cutting. Just an FYI – it takes 22 FQ pieces to make a 60×80 quilt. How do I know – we did the math!! Of course, I have a 20 piece bundle so I’m going to supplement it from stash, and will start cutting right away. Such a fun QAL. ~smile~ Roseanne

How great is that? Thanks so much, Roseanne!

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Thanks to travel sewing and a power outage, hand quilting on this has gone pretty fast!

The center is done and I’ve started the borders.

It feels like the borders need a bit more. But I love how it looks on the back.

Today I’ll ponder that border and perhaps make binding. Yahoo!

Have a great day!

E3 checked out my new toy. He will get a chance to try it out soon!

I listened to this book recently. It hits home for those of us with aging parents. Keep your Kleenex handy.

Speaking of parents, I visited my mom last week. My sister and I took her to this park we frequented as kids. It’s just as beautiful as I remembered.

We love to thrift together, and I found this chair at Habitat Restore. For ten bucks, I had to bring it home. Daughter #3 did a bit of research and found out it is an antique saloon chair!

It was repaired a very long time ago. Sure wish I knew the story of this one.

I think this will live in my Arizona house. it seems to belong in the Wild West.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks for all of your kind thoughts yesterday. Our power came back earlier than predicted, so that was nice. I have clean freezers and that feels good.

No finishes today! But I do have a small start. Sometimes, you just need to stitch. This new toy arrived from Accuquilt last week. Isn’t it cute?

It came with two useful dies.

So I picked a small project to try it out. it works just as well as the bigger Accuquilt GO! Cutter. I can see grabbing this little guy for travel projects. I’m also planning on letting the grands use this one!

It was going to be a mug rug, but it grew.

Then it needed borders so it grew again.

I’m thinking about hand quilting this. We’ll see.

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Have a great day!

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At least that’s how I feel when the power goes out. We had some heavy storms here Tuesday night and we are still waiting for power to be restored. Hopefully, some time today we will be back in business.

This is a short walk from my house. Here is our backyard.

Another yard near ours.

It wasn’t Ida, so I’m not complaining. I’m very thankful that Daughter #1 had an empty freezer we could use. We are keeping a careful eye on water levels and I’ll be cleaning the refrigerated and freezer. God is good.

Hopefully I’ll be back to quilty content tomorrow.

Have a great day!