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!