KatyQuilts

Finally getting back to work on this little top.

I’m sewing rows together!

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Traveling for months at a time is a marathon, not a sprint. We took a few nights at a campground where we could just hang out and not sight see.

I pulled out my Featherweight and pieced my little quilt top.

Now I’ll do a bit of hand quilting.

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I found some quilting inspiration at the Native American Art Museum at Crazy Horse. Love these Navajo pieces!

And this rug….stunning!

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There has been less time than expected to sew on this trip, but we have done a ton of sightseeing!

I decided I needed a very small project that I could actually finish. So I got out these two bins of vintage fabrics. I really love my AccuQuilt dies and cutters for this!

Nope, this design isn’t working. If I were making a bigger piece, it might.

So I decided to try just building the framework with the solids.

Then I filled in with random prints.

Now they are ready to sew, if I get the chance!

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Of course we had to stop in Sturgis! We were too early for the bike rally, but that’s fine with me. I’m not big on crowds.

We did do some riding in the Black Hills. It was beautiful! No, I didn’t do any of the expert rated roads!

Deadwood was a very beautiful little town.

This was our campsite in Sturgis.

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We took a day to drive the wildlife loop at Custer State Park. I loved the prairie dogs!

We saw many bison! Such majestic creatures!

The wild flowers were gorgeous.

Yep, there are antelope! Technically, they are called prong horns and they are related to giraffes!

The scenery was stunning.

We also visited Wind Cave National Park. This shows the original entrance. They have mapped out 168 miles so far.

This is the only photo inside the cave. These formations are called box work.

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Check out this older “long arm!”

Gotta love the bling on this Babylock and GO! Me!

This next machine is a Singer Model 30 chain stitch machine. It’s my unicorn, the one machine I’d love to own above all other vintage machines.

This was an interesting story.

This cabinet held vintage pin cushions.

This is my last museum post. I took a lot of pictures, but gave only shown a tiny fraction of all that was there. It was so well done.

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I could not wait to see this!

Honestly, it gave me chills.

I took this last photo as we were leaving and driving around the back side.

I was also excited to see this.

It still isn’t finished, but this shows what it is supposed to be when done.

In fact, this is all you can see and I zoomed in to get this shot.

To be fair, they had a nice museum of Native Americans art, but I was rather disappointed.

We had a lovely sunset at our campground. It was called Custer’s Gulch. Custer camped in this spot.

We woke up to hail.

Enough to leave piles everywhere!

But it was a beautiful park.

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Lots of progress has been made on this project! It’s amazing how much you can get done with a leader/ender project.

Now I’m pairing up each pieced block with a background square.

Now I’m all ready to start piecing rows.

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I forgot to share this with you all! When we were in Michigan visiting Daughter #3, we went to an antique mall. Michigan antique malls are wonderful! Hubby picked up this surprise for me!

Inside the bag was this! I had looked at it earlier, but he went back and bought it without me knowing.

I just love this color! The spool pin is bent, but otherwise it is in very good condition.

It even came with all the goodies.

I’m a lucky woman. He’s definitely a keeper. And the sewing machine is pretty sweet too.

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