KatyQuilts

I found lots of great madder prints when I started digging through my stash.

I used this die to cut my squares.

I decided to keep the light prints consistent, except for the triangles on the edges. I used this die to cut those.

It’s always amazing how much smaller it looks when you start sewing! I think you can see that my setting triangles were oversized. I did that so I wouldn’t lose any points in the binding. It didn’t take long to baste.

And then it was off to the deck for sone hand quilting.

Have a great day!

I’m participating in another doll quilt swap (sorry, sign ups are closed). I’ve been trolling the interwebs looking at antique doll quilts for ideas. Then I saw this post on Barbara Brackman’s blog, Material Culture, about madder prints. It reminded me that I had this repro cheater print in my stash.

Here is the selvedge info.

She also shared this gem on her post.

I’ve been wanting to use that cheater print as a small quilt back and it would be perfect for a quilt like the one above. These prints are not all madder prints, but I think they will work.

I’ll do some more digging in the stash before I start cutting.

Have a great day!

Well, I finished the row I was working on last week. As is, it measures 60 by 76 inches.

I have 15 flowers left over. I couldn’t figure out where to put them. If I added another row, it would throw off the symmetry.

I asked a couple thousand of my closest friends on Instagram, and nearly everyone who responded said to stop and save the leftovers for something else. I have decided to follow that advice, and I am adding green hexies to fill in the gaps and square it up.

Have a good one!

This quilt is finally on the frame!

I had planned to use this panto.

But at the last minute, I switched to this.

Both are available from Urban Elementz.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to share this finish soon. Have a great day!

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Gosh, wasn’t March just the longest year?

I didn’t want to, but I decided I needed to tackle this “tumbler trauma”, as Wendy put it. I realized I didn’t want to have the print tumblers on the edges cut off.

So I cut more tumblers and cut them in half to add to the ends of each row.

Then I had to rip stitches at the end of each row.

Add the half tumblers.

Then it looked like this.

Time to restitch the ends of the rows.

That’s better!

I’ll add a narrow green border at the top and bottom as well.

This was a bit of a pain to do. But I never would have been happy if I hadn’t done this.

Have a great day!

I wasn’t too sure about this project, but I forged ahead.

My neutral loving daughter approves. The more blocks I make, the more I like it.

Of course, now I’m thinking it should be bigger than what I can make with these three jelly rolls. I don’t want to order anything, so I’m trying to see if I have what I need in my stash. I would need 24 more strips to get to the size I want.

Can you believe I don’t have any black at the moment? I feel like it needs more black and more lights, but white is too bright. Ugh.

My deadline for this got moved back, but I know myself. If I wait too long, I’ll lose all momentum. Time to think a while.

Have a great day!

Today I have a little slow binding stitching on this secret sewing project.

And then I hope to get some more work done on this. Since E1’s therapy is canceled for the time being, I haven’t gotten as much done on it this week.

I was asked about how I prepare my Hexies for this. Here you go.

I prepped a bunch of these Friday night while Mr. Wonderful and I watched this.

It was a great movie. I hope you enjoy a peaceful Sunday.