KatyQuilts

Yesterday felt like one step forward and two steps back. I did make another 8 star blocks so they are half done. The other half will all be mirror images to these.

Winslow had a grooming appointment. Here is the before.

And here is after. She looks like a different dog! I had them cut her pretty short. She is getting spayed next week so I thought it would be easier.

Apparently, Willy was jealous. He made a mess in his crate when I went to pick Winslow up so he had to have a bath.

I got a bit more hand quilting done and then I had to go pick up QOV tops for quilting.

Today I will be gone for a good chunk of the day so I may not get anything at all done!

Have a good one!

I realized I never showed a finished chisel star block last week. Here it is.

These are so simple! I made all four of these as leaders/enders while finishing the piecing of my Almost Amish top for the quilt along.

I was curious as to how it would look if I mixed in some mirror image blocks. So I flipped a couple over to get an idea.

I’m hoping to get some more of these pieced today. I will have enough blocks for one big quilt or two smaller ones. I’ll decide after the blocks are all pieced.

Have a great day!

Mr. Wonderful left early this morning on a business trip to China. After church, I plan to spend my day slow stitching.

First up will be the binding for my Almost Amish quilt. I requilted it yesterday.

Then I hope to start hand quilting my vintage hourglass quilt. First though, I need to decide how to quilt it.

I could go with small Baptist fans…

Or the big ones that I love so well.

Or I could do something totally different. But I don’t want to think too hard…

Have a great day!

No dollhouse progress this week. I did get my Almost Amish quilt completely unquilted.

Sadly, I have a square in the middle that I snagged with my seam ripper so I have some work to do before I can requilt it.

I changed my mind about the backing as well. I think this batik will work well.

E1 and E2 each spent the night on consecutive nights this week.

I love that they get so excited to come!

I basted the vintage hour glass top for hand quilting.

Still enjoying my sweet puppies! We have had Willy for just a week, but already I can’t imagine not having him.

Have a great day!

I fully expected to have an awesome finish to share today. Lori at Humble Quilts came out with the last clue for the Almost Amish quilt along and I got busy! I finished the top and loved it!

I loaded it up on the long arm and got quilting.

I only had about four lines to go, when my thread broke. That was when I realized that even though my stitches looked perfect on top, the back was a hot mess.

It isn’t easy to see and I couldn’t tell when I looked at it while it was on the frame. It was only when I ran my hand over it that I could feel it.

See those loops? Ugh. They are everywhere on the back. I took it off the frame and it will take days to rip out all of the quilting and start over.

Ugh.

I wanted to cry, but that won’t help. Time to get busy with the seam ripper.

Have a great weekend!

I decided the little quilt I showed yesterday was the perfect project for hand quilting.

Unstitching the top from the back was a good project while watching the puppies outside.

Looks like it was hand stitched with huge stitches and then someone went back and machine stitched.

I hope to decide on my quilting plan and get it basted today.

Thanks to everyone for your sweet comments on our new pup, Willy. He and Winslow are getting along well.

So far, training is going well. Have a great day!