KatyQuilts

Remember I said I wasn’t sure about the proportions of the churn dash quilt? Yeah….

I spent a lot of time with the seam ripper yesterday. But I just wouldn’t have been happy. I removed a row from one end, made two more blocks and added it to the side. Since I pieced my rows lengthwise to begin with, this ended up being more work than it sounds. Anyway, I had some triangle paper on hand and used that to make the two extra blocks I needed.

I had never used these before and they worked out quite well. The accuracy was spot on.

Now I can get back to borders so I can show a finished top on Friday.

Have a great day!

I’m slowly making progress with my Churn Dash top. I’ve had help.

Good thing he’s cute.

I have the blocks together with sashing. It currently measures about 60 by 87 inches. I had planned to add borders. I’m starting to wish I had made more blocks. I could do that, but I don’t have anymore sashing fabric with me. This is the border fabric.

I haven’t cut it since I haven’t figured out how wide to make the borders.

I really want this top done. Ugh. What to do, what to do? I think I’ll work on something else a while.

Have a good day!

My heart is full! Big L got to spend the night with us Friday night and Saturday we celebrated our daughter in love’s birthday here. These are the reasons I wanted to be here! Anyway, Big L and I worked on presents for the birthday girl Friday night.

He really enjoyed sewing! He picked out fabric from my strip bin and made this little bag.

You can see how proud he is! Then he decided he wanted to make a pillow for her.

He picked out the fabrics and sat on my lap to use the sewing machine. He wants to make a quilt for his aunt next! Here are the things he made.

ST is short for Stephanie. He put pretty rocks in the bag for her. I can’t wait until our next crafting session!

Also, thanks to everyone for the ID on my wire basket system. I’m excited to be able to find another that will match!

And I’m reading all the comments, but am ever so behind in responding. I hope to get back in the groove this week.

Have a great day!

I thought it would be good to have one more handwork project prepped for our long road trip. I found these leftovers from my Brinton Hall quilt. Turns out, I didn’t touch this on the trip.

I have a few pieces already basted.

And plenty more ready to baste.

To give you an idea of size, this little Tupperware container was meant to hold a sandwich. I may or may not work on this today. Time will tell. Have a great day!

I spent half of a day working on this and I’m still not happy with it. This is what I started with.

I ended up taking this apart. It had wrinkles inside.

Ugh. And this is why you can’t trust the accuracy of the lines on these.

I pulled out the draw string and sewed ties in.

I tied these under the table top.

Not pretty, but so far it’s okay. I’m hoping it will flatten out over time.

Have a good day!

It is so good to sew!

It’s amazing how much the rows shrink when they get sewn together.

I started getting excited seeing the rows together. And yes, I’m piecing this sideways.

I put up my cornerstones. Next, I will sew the sashing/cornerstone rows together.

Have a great day!

The most exciting part of this DWM post, is that I do in fact HAVE a design wall!

This is the biggest one I’ve ever had. I’m really glad I had this project ready to go. I haven’t done any sewing yet, but as you can see, I’ve started laying this out.

I also bought an iron.

I know nothing about this iron. I needed one, it was on sale, and we had Kohl’s cash.

Thanks to everyone for for your suggestions for my warped quilt hanger! We read them all and I think we have the solution now. Hoping I can get it on the wall tomorrow. I will post a photo as soon as I can.

Have a great day!