WIP Wednesday ~ Vintage Broken Dishes

Posted on October 4, 2017 by katyquilts

Remember this vintage top? I was missing that one border and it needed it. 


So I asked on IG if anyone had something that might work. A Good Samaritan answered my call all the way from Australia! She sent me some repro fabric of this same print!

You can tell the new piece is on the right, it is much brighter. I’m totally okay with that. It adds to the story that this was begun many, many years ago and will be finished soon. I did end up taking the top apart. There were lots of pleats in the long sashing pieces and I decided to fix that before quilting. 

After I took it apart, I placed the sashing on top of the two strips of blocks and found that it was nearly two inches longer and all that extra had been not so successfully eased in!


No wonder it had pleats!

There are some interesting marks on this top, as though some pieces bled while the top was stored. It adds character!

I hope to get the top back together today. I may take this to Arizona with me to hand quilt if I get the other one I’m working on done.

Have a great day!

Linking up with Sew Fresh Quilts, Quilt Fabrication

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Quilt of Valor

Posted on October 3, 2017 by katyquilts

I have the first of four QOVs quilted. This was made by one of the members of the Stitching Sisters QOV group.

Here is a look at the back.

This is the pantograph that I used.

Have a great day!

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DWMonday ~ Home Again

Posted on October 2, 2017 by katyquilts

Mr. Wonderful and I spent most of the last week visiting Sweet MIL in Missouri. It was a lovely visit, but as always, too short. When I got home this weekend, I did get caught up on the Palmeteer Point QAL hosted ny Lori at Humble Quilts.  


The last clue comes out today. If you are doing this too and it looks like I have more pieces than you, don’t panic! I used a charm pack for my four patches so I have 42 instead of the 25 she said to make. So I made extras of the other pieces too. I can’t wait to see the final layout! It was good to get back to my machine and nice to have something to sit down and mindlessly sew.

It is QOV week here again. This top is the first of four that I need to get done this week.

I wish I had time to do some custom work on this, but I’ll be heading back to Phoenix soon so the goal with this batch is to just “git ‘er done.”

Have a great day!

Linking up with Cooking Up Quilts, Small Quilts and Doll Quilts, Love Laugh Quilt

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Sunday

Posted on October 1, 2017 by katyquilts

I took a few photos in my sweet MILs garden. It was so beautiful!


“Notice how the lilies grow. They don’t wear themselves out with work, and they don’t spin cloth. But I say to you that even Solomon in all his splendor wasn’t dressed like one of these.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭12:27‬ ‭CEB‬‬

Have a great day!

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More Black and White

Posted on September 30, 2017 by katyquilts

Have a great day!

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Finally Friday ~ Log Cabin Quilt!

Posted on September 29, 2017 by katyquilts

I think it was over a year ago that I cut out the pieces for this quilt!

I used this die from Accuquilt. Honestly, I would never make log cabin blocks any other way. This die can also be used for smaller log cabin blocks or even Court House Steps blocks.


And believe it or not, all the red and green pieces were cut from one length of fabric! The only intact piece I have left to show you is this bit I used as backing on another quilt.

Sorry about the toes! Lol! I did lots of close quilting on this and I love the texture it gives.

I’m not sure you can tell, but I used red thread in the top and bottom of the dark half of the blocks.

Have a great day!

Linking up with Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Busy Hands Quilts, Crazy Mom Quilts, Kathy’s Kwilts and More

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September/October Goals

Posted on September 28, 2017 by katyquilts

Here is a look at the goals I set for myself in September:

1. I’d like to get my batik rectangles top done and quilted. Done!



2. Quilt any QOVs that come in.

3. Quilt my red log cabin quilt. Done!

4. I really want to finish hand quilting the little indigo and white quilt shown above. Done!


5. I want to finish my little Jeep Quilt. Not done.

What else did I do? I made a table runner out of a practice bit of machine quilting.


I made this small quilt for a blog hop.

And I made a baby quilt for a friend.

I finished my HST quilt also and will share that soon.
A pretty productive month!

On to October.

1. I want to finish the vintage pyramid quilt that I have been hand quilting.


2. Finish the Palmateer Point QAL quilt.

3. The Jeep Quilt.

4. I’d like to work on getting these blocks together into a top.


I also have a big trip to Arizona this month so I better not get too crazy!

Have a great day!

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Answers to a Few Questions

Posted on September 27, 2017 by katyquilts

I had a few questions about my post yesterday. Since I’m not home, I thought it would be easiest to address them here.

First, that beautiful backing fabric is a vintage sheet! Sorry, but I’m pretty certain it is no longer available. But try thrift shops. 


Secondly, I cut my binding strips 2.5 inches wide.

I will try to do a more complete machine binding tutorial soon with lots of pictures. But it might be a while. I took my trusty Bernini 1030 in for service recently and it wans to skip stitches every time I do a binding now. Grrrrr!!!


If I go very slowly, it does okay. But who’s got time for that?

Not me! Have a good one!

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Machine Bindng

Posted on September 26, 2017 by katyquilts

Mr. Wonderful are on our way to see his mom today! Before I left, I was able to finish this quilt. For time’s sake, I did all the binding by machine. I started by stitching thebibding to the back of the quilt and then pressing the binding away from the quilt.

I never use pins or clips when I bind. I just roll the binding to the front side far enough to just cover the stitch line and top stitch close to the edge.

Have a great day!

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Monday

Posted on September 25, 2017 by katyquilts

Remember this? I finished this top back in Arizona. I’m finally getting around to finishing it!

I thought I would add borders, but I found a great backing fabric that wouldn’t work if this were any bigger. 

So I loaded this up and started quilting. 

This is the pantograph I am using. It is from Urban Elementz. I buy 90% of my pantographs from them. The quality and customer service has been awesome.

Have a great day!

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