KatyQuilts

Work in Progress Wednesday

Posted on May 27, 2015 by katyquilts

Good Morning! Let’s see what is in progress today! I have all my 16 patches up on the design wall and I am rearranging a few each time I walk by.

This shot gives you a better idea of the scale.

I have also been pondering some other layouts for my little log cabin blocks.

I’ve been doing a big of cleaning in the sewing room. I found a home for all my new fat quarters.

I love using my vintage enamelware containers. I need to do some more rearranging and organizing in my sewing room. Now that I have had it for a year, I am finding some things I want to tweak a bit.

Linking up with Freshly Pieced and Sew Fresh Quilts.

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Reminder BQF Spring 2015

Posted on May 26, 2015 by katyquilts

Voting is still open for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side. I am so excited to have been nominated for Viewer’s Choice for my City Sampler quilt!

My Fiesta quilt is also there in the Small Quilts category.
Make sure you leave comments on Amy’s posts as there are lots of great drawings with great prizes by sponsors. I won a whole set of Aurifil threads once!

This link is your ticket to see lots of lovely quilts. Thanks for your sweet comments on mine and for your support!

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Back to Work!

Posted on May 26, 2015 by katyquilts

Mr. Wonderful and I enjoyed our time away this weekend, we returned Sunday evening as the rain started. We visited several antique malls and found a few treasures to bring home! The mister is quite adept at finding toy sewing machines! Here is the first one that followed us home.

This one is marked Casige, a huge maker of toy sewing machines in post war Germany. It says it was made in the British Zone. I love the graphics on this one.

The next one was made in Berlin also but in the U.S. zone. It was produced by the KAYanEE Corporation, an American Company. There were countless variations of KAYanEEs produced over the years and I have quite a few. This one is a free arm version.

You may think you have seen the next one already because it is very similar to one I got in April. It is another Betsy Ross.

This one is electric and came in this cute little red case.

Apparently, this machine was sold in the 1950 Montgomery Wards Catalog for $18.95! You can see it with the one I already had here.

I just love these. They are sturdy enough to actually sew with them. And I just might! All of these are chain stitch machines.

Time for me to clean up the house before heading in to the day job. Have a great day!

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Memorial Day 2015

Posted on May 25, 2015 by katyquilts

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. (‭John‬ ‭15‬:‭13‬ NASB)

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Slow Stitching Sunday

Posted on May 24, 2015 by katyquilts

Mr. Wonderful and I are on an impromptu road trip around our state. It is the perfect time for a bit of hand work. I brought these along to remove the papers.

It was a great car project.

I plan to work on another row of hexies today.

Linking up with Kathy’s Quikts for Slow Stitching Sunday.

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Finish It Up Friday!

Posted on May 22, 2015 by katyquilts

I am so happy to have this quilt done! And it feels appropriate to share a Quilt of Valor this weekend.

This will soon be presented to a friend of ours. I can’t wait!

I didn’t realize until I started this post that I had the quilt hung on the fence crooked. Ugh! I used white for the back and that is the only thing I am not totally happy with.

Here are some detail shots.

I do need to make the label and figure out what to say. I think that is the hardest part!

Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts, Richard and Tanya Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, A Quilting Reader’s Garden., Slostudio, Pink Doxies Pet Project.

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Surprise!

Posted on May 21, 2015 by katyquilts

Last week one day, I came home from work to this!

Apparently, hubby is getting their emails and couldn’t resist the daily deals. This is what was inside:

He also ordered two quilting magazine subscriptions for me! Definitely a keeper :). BTW, I started reading the book and couldn’t put it down! I love Missouri Star and Mr. Wonderful. I am thankful for both, but especially Mr. W.

Linking up with Quilting Jet Girl for Thankful Thursday.

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Throwback Thursday

Posted on May 21, 2015 by katyquilts

Good Morning! I came across several older small quilts while scrounging around in my linen closet. These were all made by me back in the mid 1990’s. All were published in QUILT magazine but I am too lazy to dig through and find out which ones. This first one is all hand pieced and quilted. It measures 13 inches by 16 inches.

This little star quilt is also hand pieced and quilted. I remember working on it when Daughter #1 was at dance class so she must have been four or five. This measures 15 inches by17 inches. The color is sadly off in these photos! Imagine 30’s green and bubble gum pink!

My Sunbinnet Sue measures 18 by 21 inches. Each Sue is 3 inches tall. I shrunk the pattern to fit the vintage fabric swatches that I had. It is also all done by hand.

I hope you enjoyed these little bits. Have a wonderful day!

Linking up with My Quilt Infatuation.

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Leaders/Enders

Posted on May 20, 2015 by katyquilts

Bonnie Hunter has made this concept famous. If you are not familiar with it, you can read more here. I often use pieces from the same project as leaders/enders but rarely a completely different project as Bonnie does. Since I had a project in mind to do that requires a bunch of tiny squares to be sewn together, I decided to give it another try. Remember these squares?

They are slowly turning into these:

Eventually, they will become a quilt like the one that Lori from Humble Quilts showed on her blog last week. She calls it Blue Ridge Rendevous and kindly sent me the pattern after I did a bit of a test sew for her.
These are the pieces I had sewn earlier:

I have no timeline for this. However, once I get excited about a project, I tend to drop everything else to finish. This is why I have never been good at leaders/enders!

These squares are cut 1 1/2 inches to finish at 1 inch. I was able to get this far using these as leader/enders while making my 16 patch blocks.

Linking up with Freshly Pieced and Sew Fresh Quilts.

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Quilt of Valor

Posted on May 19, 2015 by katyquilts

I started sewing on this QOV top last month. I had saved this panel forever with a specific person in mind and had finally decided on a design.

Last week I got it loaded into the frame and there it sat for a week. Sunday I finally started quilting and spent most of yesterday working on it. Long arm quilting is much faster than hand quilting but it is not exactly quick. I started with ruler work in the blue borders.