KatyQuilts

I’ve been very drawn to flying geese again lately. I pieced this little top using some of my vintage fabric stash.

Cutting those triangles off grain on the bottom left gave it a wonky look. Since the machine quilting on my trusty little Featherweight went so well on my last two little projects, I decided to give it a go on this one.

The answer is….not good.

Um….yeah….now I have waves to add to my wonk.

The other half looks better. I have no idea what I did differently. The back looks fine.

I’m disappointed, but I’m not going to stress over it. Have a great day!

I promised to share photos of my quilt hanger and how it works. Many people asked after I shared this photo.

I actually have several of these.

They are compression hangers. I bought one years ago at Cracker Barrel. The others I’ve picked up at garage sales and thrift shops.

I don’t worry if the quilt is a bit too long or too short. This is how they work. You unscrew the knobs holding the front and back pieces together.

Then you tuck the edge of the quilt in between and tighten the knobs. Voila! So easy to change quilts and no sleeves are needed.

I have found a few other methods that I use as well. This first idea came from Ann Hermès at Notes from the Quilt Lab.

I hung the yard stick with space between the stick and the wall.

Then I used these little clips from IKEA to hang the quilt on the yardstick.

Here is another method, a simple curtain rod with cafe clips.

I’ve already shared that I sometimes also use tiny brass pins. You can find that post here.

Hope this helps! Have a great day!

I cut these pieces out last fall using my Accuquilt GO! half rectangle die.

I decided to finally do something with them. I love how well these pieces line up!

Here are half the blocks. I was able to cut 12 each from a Fat Eighth bundle .

This isn’t necessarily the final arrangement. I’m going to have fun playing once I finish sewing all the half rectangle pieces. Time to sew!

Have a great day!

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I finished piecing these larger hexies together.

I glue basted the hexies, so when it was time to remove them, I placed a damp towel on top.

I let it sit for an hour and they all came out easily.

Then I pressed the whole thing, keeping the seam allowances turned under.

Time for the black felt!

Stay tuned….

I love having a pretty stash! I think this is my neatest drawer right now though.

The problem is, when all my fabrics are neatly folded, I don’t use them. It is a pain to pull out 25 different fabrics, unfold them, cut pieces, fold them back up and restore them. I’m a bit of a slow learner, but I recently came to the conclusion that I need to store my fabrics how I use them. See this stack?

It is ten layers of shirting fabrics. Why ten? Because I can run ten layers through my die cutter in one pass. I’m a scrap quilter, the more fabrics in a quilt, the better I like it. I pretty much never use a single background fabric. I like to cut a variety of prints all at one time. My stacks end up looking like this.

Then I lay my stacks in the basket/drawer. As you can see, I’ve got more work to do in this one.

Is it pretty? Not really. But I have eliminated hours of folding, pressing, and refolding. And even more importantly, I’m using my stash. I have a lot of work to do as I’d like to go through and stack most of my fabric (everything in pieces one yard or less) this way. but this will have to wait until I get back to Michigan. That’s where my die cutter lives.

Have a great day!