KatyQuilts

I finally decided on a design for my sister’so quilt. As I was messing around on EQ, I remembered an old book that I had from Quilt in a Day. 

I originally bought  this back when we lived in France to teach a friend to quilt. It still has the Irish Chain feel I was going for. I got my strips cut before work. 

And one set sewn. 

When I came home on lunch, I got these sets subcut and one block laid out. 

The book pattern calls for over cutting the background strips and then trimming the blocks to size. I cut the strips to the exact size to begin with. I understand why they do this and that they want beginners to be successful, but I find this unnecessary for myself.

This won’t be a quilt in a day because I don’t have a full day to devote to it right now.

I used this pattern to make this quilt for my nephew and his wife when they got married 15 years ago.  

That is a picture of a picture and the quality is bad. But it is the only picture of this quilt that I have. And it only shows half of the quilt! It was huge. I quilted it on my 1955 Singer Model 201. It is made from all Repro 30’s prints.

In digging through old pictures looking for this, I realized I made an Irish Chain quilt for this same sister 16 years ago. 

 This is a full size quilt shown on a queen size bed. And it is another picture of a picture. 

Linking up with Freshly Pieced, Sew Fresh Quilts.

I am planning to make a quilt for my older sister this summer. I want to make something using these 2 1/2 inch strips. They are all from various Denyse Schmidt collections.

I have 64 strips cut from 64 different prints.  I’ve been playing around on  EQ7 trying to come up with a plan.  
  

Obviously, my version of either will be scrappy. I need to commit and start sewing!

Linking up with Free Motion By The River and Quilt Story.

Here’s a peek at what is on my design wall today. 

I had originally planned to put all the red blocks in the upper left hand corner to give the impression of a flag. But I would need a lot more blue blocks and a lot less red. With this layout, I was able to use every block and not have any leftover.

I started with a bundle of 8 fat quarters and added the background fabric. You may remember that I had just enough left to cut out these HSTs. 

I am using these for leaders/enders now.  Here’s hoping I can get this top together today!

Linking up with Patchwork Times for DWM A Quilting Reader’s Garden for WIP Be Gone, and Cooking Up Quilts for MCM, and I Have to Say for Show and Tell Tuesday.

Yesterday, Mr. Wonderful and I spent the day bumming around. We went to a few garage sales, a farmers market, an antique fair, and some antique malls. The weather was perfect and we had a great time. The mister found this lovely little machine in the first place we stopped. It was made in the 1950’s by the Artcraft Company. 

We also found this tiny little Casige machine. 

Some of these booths are so inviting!

I picked up a few more pieces of enamelware as well. 

I love the little boxes with lids. I have quite a lot of this so I am pretty picky about what I buy and it has to be very inexpensive. I’m willing to wait for a real deal on any antiques. It is part of the fun for me.

At the Farmer’s market, I picked up one of these: 

I love to hang my clothes on the line but always used an ice cream bucket for my clothes pins. Now I have a real pin bag! I could have made this myself, but I’ve been hanging clothes out for 27 years and haven gotten around to it, so it wasn’t likely to happen.

I took along some slow stitching but didn’t get much done. It is my plan for today as well.

We celebrated Father’s Day a few weeks ago with our local kids but I have to give a shoutout to Mr. Wonderful.

And to my own dad as well. 

I am blessed.

Linking up to Kathy’s Quilts for  Slow Stitching Sunday.

And here is a lovely little quilt to share with you. 

The squares in this measure half of an inch! I purchased this beautiful vintage block, added borders, quilted, and bound it. This unknown quilter’s effort deserved to be finished! This is an old project but I recently pulled it out to use in my guest room and decided to share it here. 

Have a glorious weekend!

I purchased this antique quilt top a couple years ago. I found it in a thrift shop for the princely sum of one dollar! I took advantage of some nice weather recently to take some better pictures of it.

Aren’t these fabrics wonderful?

Someday I would like to hand quilt this.

I will never forget the day I found this top. I was having a horrible day and on a whim, I stopped in to a local thrift shop and found this. It felt like a gift. This top will always serve as a reminder of God’s goodness and care because of that. Have a great day!

Linking up with Quilting Jet Girl for Thankful Thursday.

I didn’t get much sewing done yesterday. But I did get my laundry done, so there is that. My biggest accomplishment was getting the borders on the log cabin quilt.  

This seemed to be the favorite combo. The red is a touch brighter than I wanted but it was the best I had and I didnt want to buy anything. Now I have to decide how to quilt it. That may take a while. 

I also started piecing some hour glass blocks that I cut out a while back. Remember these? 

 They are turning into these. 

I have the hand sewing on the binding of the secret quilt almost done but I will hold off showing that until it is gifted a few weeks from now.

In other news, Mr. E had a big birthday party on Sunday. I can’t believe he is a year old already! 

And in about two weeks, Mr. L will be officially a big brother!

I’m looking forward to a trip to Arizona in July to meet our third grandson. We are anxiously awaiting news of his birth! We are so blessed with these little guys!

Have a great Tuesday!