KatyQuilts

I said the other day that I wanted to quilt one quilt for myself this month. I really wanted to get the cheddar top quilted but got sidetracked by the needed repairs. Here is another vintage, machine pieced top I considered.

This is one of the tops hubby gave me for Christmas last year. I love this top! It does have some issues as well. A few seams need repair and it doesn’t lay quite flat. I need to come up with a quilting plan that will enhance the top and yet, stay in the background.

Since I had the perfect backing, and this top has aged enough, this is the top that actually ended up in the frame.

But I still don’t have a quilting plan for this either!

I want feathers in the border, but I am not so precise that formal feathers seem a good idea.

I’m hoping inspiration will hit today. I need to get this out of the frame so it is free as soon as Daughter #3’s project is ready to go.

Linking up with My Quilt Infatuation for Needle and Thread Thursday and Pretty Bobbins for IQuilt.

Isn’t this awesome?

Daughter #3 surprised me with this early Christmas gift! She took a photo of one of my quilts and had it put on the cover of this notebook. She knows how I love notebooks! Beautiful empty pages, just waiting to be filled….

Here is the quilt:

In case you are interested, she ordered this via Shutterfly.

Knitnkwilt left me a comment yesterday regarding the block pattern in my vintage quilt top. She found the block ( or one very close to it) in this book:

Here is the block in the quilt.

Looks like a pretty close match to me! Thanks, Clare! I wonder if the maker of this top made a mistake in those corners and decided to change he pattern instead of rip. Sounds like something I would do!

Linking up with Sew Fresh Quilts for Let’s Bee Sewcial.

Remember the Cascadia Mystery QAL hosted by Lori at Humble Quilts? The one that finished last week? Yeah, I sewed another piece from Part 1 last night.

I really want to finish this. I hope to sneak in a bit of work on it today.

I added a jingle bell at the top of the tree on the stocking I was working on last night. And I proceeded to add buttons. Hmm… Didn’t like them. So I took them off again but left the bell.

I finished quilting the Quilt of Valor I was working on but it was too late for pictures last night.

The Christmas countdown here has begun.

Yes, that is a 5. In five days, my #1 Son and his beautiful family arrive. That means all my Christmas Prep must be done by then.

Time to finish my coffee and get moving!

Linking up with Patchwork Times for Design Wall Monday and Stitch by Stitch for Anything Goes Monday.

I hope to get a little slow stitching in today on this stocking I made for Baby E.

I want to add some buttons for ornaments on the little tree.

Daughter #3 is making progress on her Christmas project.

And I started quilting another Quilt of Valor.

I am using this pantograph, generously given to me by another long arm quilter.

Normally, Pantographs are stitched from right to left. But I am finding it easier with this one to work left to right.

I am pretty. Sure this will be the last one I quilt before Christmas.

We got our trees up and decorated this weekend.

And yes, that is grass you see out those windows! The snow has melted and I am not sorry. It is only a matter of time until we have enough to shovel.

Linking up with Kathy for Slow  Stitching Sunday.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We sure did! Our big meal was Wednesday evening so hubby and I spent a low key day at home yesterday. I stayed in my jammies, ate leftovers, and did a bit of sewing.

My big finish was this QOV, pieced by one of the members of the Stitching Sisters group.

Here are a few detail shots.

And from the back.

Today will be spent with Baby E.

Cheeky little fellow!

Linking up with Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday, Richard and Tanya Quilts for Link a Finish Friday,  and Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop?

Quilting has been my reward for getting housework done this week. I spent a couple hours before work yesterday working on the log Cabin Quilt of Valor. I decided to do a bead board border design. And circles in the inner border. I am using this Handi template which doesn’t feel all that handy. Perhaps I just need to get used to it. I am using a spiral of diagonal lines in the logs of the log cabin blocks. Our big Thanksgiving dinner is tonight. Tomorrow, Daughter #3 will be with her boyfriend’s family and Daughter #1 will be working so it will be quiet around here. I plan to stay in my pjs, drink coffee, eat leftovers, and quilt! Linking up with Lee at a Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and Sew Fresh Quilts for Let’s Bee Sewcial.

Doesn’t have the same ring to it as Throwback Thursday, does it? In any case, I spent the whole day yesterday cleaning and getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I sewed not one stitch.

I did hang up some different quilts for the season. I picked this one up a while back at an antique market for a mere $20. It is probably the oldest quilt I own, my guess is that it predates the Civil War. Some fabrics have completely fallen out. But look at that stitching!

It was made by a master.

This is a very large quilt.

And here is another quilt, not quite so old.

Sorry for the skewed picture. It is hanging in my foyer and I couldn’t get a straight on shot. I made this about 15 years ago. It is all done by machine on my trusty 1955 Singer 201. I cut freezer paper templates for the applique and used a glue stick to turn the edges under. Then I top stitched the pieces down using invisible thread. Here are a couple detail shots.

The quilting was also done on my 201, cross hatching and feathers.

And here is an even older one.

This was a Round Robin project done in my local guild. This is probably 20 years old. It is my very first free motion quilting work. I think I used one of my Singer 301s for this.

This quilt actually appeared in a magazine around 1997. Possibly QUILT or Country Quilts. I would have to look it up. I had quite a few quilts published in this same family of magazines from the early 90s until probably 2006 or so when they changed editors.

Time to make the cranberry salad before work! Have a great Tuesday.

Linking up with Free Motion by the River for Linky Tuesday.