KatyQuilts

If you follow me on Instagram, you know I’ve been in Arizona. I just got home. I appreciate all of your recent comments and read them all, though I didn’t take the time to respond as I should. Due to the Covid mess, I had many flight cancellations and delays and my trip was shortened by nearly half!

Here is Daughter #2’s house and my rental Jeep.

She and I did some fun touristy things like visiting this ghost town.

I loved spending time with my grandpups. They are as adorable and sweet as ever!

And I spent time with my wonderful son and these precious grandsons! We had so much fun! Big L told me over and over that he loved me and a couple times he told me I was “so cute!” ❤️ He’s a charmer! Little L has Autism. He is about to turn five. My heart rejoices whenever I’m able to break into his world and that happened quite a few times on this trip. When he says he wants to snuggle with Nana, my heart just melts!

Daughter #2 and I also visited Sedona. It is so beautiful there!

I’m still dreaming of buying a house out there so I can stay for months at a time. It is so beautiful there and even more so with my family. Have a great day!

I decided to piece this little quilt by making 30 of these blocks and then putting them together.

I’m loving the contrast of textures!

I might even hand quilt this just so I can feel it. 😊

Have a great day!

Daughter #3 visited England and brought these Liberty charm packs back for me. She mailed them just recently.

The very next day, I got these lovely pieces in the mail from her for Mother’s Day!

I already had a small stash I purchased in Paris many years ago. I cut four 2 1/2 inch squares from each print.

I love Liberty prints! This one almost looks like a face. 😄

I’m thinking about a simple setting to really show them off. I think this Moda crossweave might be just the ticket.

They are so fine!

I also chose this to make maximum use of these precious bits. This is all the scrap I had from the charms.

Have a great day!

I finished my little triangle quilt and still had a few scraps left over. So I cut them into 1 1/2 inch strips and stitched them end to end.

Then I sewed them together like a tiny jelly roll race quilt.

I had enough binding left from the HST quilt to bind this one.

These are the left overs that were swept into the bin after this photo was taken.

Time to quilt!

Not enough.

Nope, still not enough.

That’ll do. Have a great day!

Since I’m traveling this month, I pulled out this UFO to work on. These hexies are cut from my small Liberty of London stash.

I plan to stitch them into these shapes.

I don’t yet know if I will add background, or just mash them all together.

I mark the seam lines as shown above. Below you can see my essential tools.

The back of that cutting mat has a piece of sandpaper glued on so I can mark seam allowances without the fabric shifting.

This is a traveling must have! It is called the Clover Dome NeedleCase. It holds up to ten threaded needles! It is from Fat Quarter Shop .

Let the stitching begin! Have a great day!

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I’ve been trying to find all the little collections of scraps that I have squirreled away. This collection is left over from my Gee’s Geese quilt that I finished in 2016.

I used this die to cut as many 2 inch HSTs as I could.

I left the larger pieces intact since I had no idea where I was going with this.

Here is my pile.

I rarely do this, but I pressed the seams open. I knew this would be a small quilt and not subjected to the stresses of a large quilt. And since I had no idea of the layout, I couldn’t press do seams would nest.

Time to play!

Have a great day!

….another quilt in the making!

I used this die to cut all the pieces.

I had just enough of this older Moda Marble fabric for the background.

I sewed one background piece to each print. I had two of each print so as I pressed these, I put one of each print in each pile.

I worked with just one pile to make the first half of the rows. This helps to insure that none of the pairs end up too close together. Here are the first seven rows.

I didn’t lay anything out ahead of time, I just grabbed random pieces to sew together. I’m loving it so far!

Have a great day!