KatyQuilts

I haven’t forgotten this. I’ve been contemplating my next step.

Sheri suggested that I use a point trimmer to make the diamonds easier to line up. BTW, Sheri has a fun Facebook page called Mommo Quilts and Crafts. Anyway, I picked up this set as it was all I could get locally.

I don’t like the opaqueness of these. You line them up and trim the points.

In the process, I noticed this…..

Yeah, not exactly an accurate cut there! Sigh….no wonder so few of these were finished.

So once again, I’m debating whether to try to machine piece another diamond, or look for a rubber stamp to mark the seam lines and go back to my hand piecing idea.

I think I’ll go work on something else while I think about that. Have a great day!

I am back to working on these blocks.

This is my block tally so far:

And this is the tub of 30s print squares I still have to use.

I will probably quit at 36 blocks. I’d love 64, but I’m losing steam. We’ll see.

Have a great day!

Remember this top from my bloggy friend, Ila? I started working on repairing it.

This was my first repair. I carefully removed that block with the tear.

Then I took a tuck in the back of the block.

It’s hard to even see the seam!

The seam allowances were so large that I had no problem stitching this smaller piece back into place.

See?

Some of you suggested using some of those large seam allowances for patching. That worked out great!

I don’t think these will be noticeable at all once this is quilted.

Reason came to me and I decided that with those large seam allowances, that machine quilting would be best. I hope to get started with that today.

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Have a great day!

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I decided on a vintage gray stripe for my alternate blocks and got this little quilt loaded up.

I purchased these pattern boards a while back and had yet to try them. I thought if I only used half the lines, I could get a chevron pattern. And you can! Except, that I have lots of wobbles.

I decided the wobbles would be less noticeable if I used the complete pattern. It is. But it is still more noticeable than I would like. It looks much better in photos than in real life!

I think the problem is, that this is a big, heavy machine. I had my HQ Avante when I purchased this setup. It was made for that smaller, lighter machine. It worked beautifully on that. The stylus setup fits my bigger HQForte, but because it is a bigger, heavier machine, it has a lot more momentum when it gets moving. So patterns like this with a lot of quick changes in direction mean wobbles. Baptist Fans with long sweeping curves work just fine.

On a happier note, I did find this fun vintage fabric in my stash for the backing.

I always try to use new patterns on my own quilts first. I thought I might use this on a Quilt of Valor, but I am not happy enough with the results to do that. So another happy ending here, is that I didn’t ruin anyone else’s quilt!

I will finish the quilting, then bind and wash before I make my final judgement.

Have a great day!