KatyQuilts

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.

And then used tiny back and forth lines to make the squares pop.

Feathers in the hour glass blocks.

And lots of outlining in the center panel. A peek at the back:

I hope to have this one bound and labeled by Friday. Linking up with Free Motion by the River and Quilt Story for Fabric Tuesday.

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Design Wall Monday

Posted on May 18, 2015 by katyquilts

Thanks to all for your congratulations on our next grand baby! We are quite excited. I am feeling much better and have lots of sewing planned for this week.

I finished sewing the 16 patches from the Amy Butler jelly roll this weekend. I have 80 8 inch blocks with not a scrap left over! Now I am trying to decide how to set them. I quite like them all together like this:

But if I set them with sashing, I could make this big enough for the guest room bed:

I wouldn’t use these green squares for cornerstones but they were cut the right size and handy to throw up on the design wall.

I just love a big box full of blocks!

Linking up with Patchwork Times for Design Wall Monday.

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Slow Stitching Sunday

Posted on May 17, 2015 by katyquilts

I think today I will use these:

To finish that row on the left:

Happy Sunday!

Linking up with Kathys Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.

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16 Patches

Posted on May 16, 2015 by katyquilts

Remember this?

A while back I trimmed these and cut some strips to go along with them.

I have done very little sewing this week. When I am sick and don’t sew, hubby thinks I need to go to the doctor! I did start sewing these into 16 patches yesterday.

This is the kind of mindless sewing that is perfect for when you are not feeling at the top of your game. It was nice to have my strips cut and ready to go for these. I will end up with 80 8 inch blocks. I am trying to decide if I want to add sashing and borders to make this bed sized or make a couple generous baby girl quilts. I’ve given away the last baby quilt I had on hand and like to have a few in reserve.

Yesterday I was off from the library job, but I watched little man. I looked in the diaper bag and found this.

That layer cake would make some nice baby quilts too! Especially since little man recently made this announcement:

Have a wonderful day!

Linking up with Pink Doxies for Pet Projects.

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BQF 2015 Small Quilt Category

Posted on May 15, 2015 by katyquilts

If you are visiting my blog for the first time, welcome! I hope you will take a few minutes to look around. I love traditional quilts, modern quilts, art quilts, pretty much anything and everything quilt related. For those of you that already follow my blog, you have seen this quilt before. I am reposting it here as my second entry into the Blogger’s Quilt Festival for spring 2015. It is my City Sampler done in all solids and I am entering it into the Small Quilts category.

Here are some detail shots. I had so much fun with the quilting on this one! All the thread on this is Glide from Fil-Tec. I changed color for each section and used white on the background.
Here is a shot of the back:

Check out the other quilts in the BQF SmallQuilts Category here. If you would like to vote for this quilt for Viewer’s Choice, you can do so here. Thanks for stopping by!

Also linking up with Prairie Sewn Studios for Crafty Comment Karma.

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Bloggers Quilt Festival Spring 2015

Posted on May 15, 2015 by katyquilts

It’s that time of year again! I love the BQF hosted each spring and fall by Amy at Amy’s Creative Side. If you are visiting my blog for the first time, Welcome! I hope you will take a few minutes to look around. I love traditional quilts, modern quilts, art quilts, pretty much anything and everything quilt related. If you are a regular big reader, you have already seen this quilt but I am sharing it again as my entry into BQF.

So without further ado, here is Fiesta!

I made this quilt for my daughter after she discovered a similar quilt on Instagram made by Jeliquilts. She has a free pattern available on Craftsy. I loosely followed her idea. I didn’t have the same fabric selection and my blocks are smaller. I started with roughly the same colors in the upper right hand side and just started playing from there.

My finished quilt measures 36 inches by 42 inches so it just fit into the Mini Quilts category for BQF.

I had a blast quilting this! I used Glide thread from Fil-Tec in Khaki. Here are some closeups of the quilting.

Here is a shot of the back taken before the binding was applied:

Check out the other quilts in the BQF Small Quilts Category here. If you would like to vote for this quilt for Viewer’s Choice, you can do so here.

Thanks for stopping by! And enjoy the Spring Blogger’s Quilt Festival!

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Throwback Thursday

Posted on May 14, 2015 by katyquilts

Still fighting a cold which means no sewing progress. So here is another TBThursday post. These small quilts are about 18 inches square. They were all quilted on a domestic machine. It is nice to see that my free motion work has improved!

Have a great day!

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Work in Progress Wednesday

Posted on May 13, 2015 by katyquilts

Once again, I went out of town for the weekend and came home sick. Blech. Thankfully, I had yesterday off as I had originally planned to stay one more day than I did. I did a bit of hand piecing on my Hexie quilt while traveling. Here is a shot of it now.

That partial row bothers me. Hopefully enough that I will finish that row this week.
I did get the last solid border added to the QOV I am working on and I got it loaded into the frame.

Since I had no energy to quilt, I will contemplate the design for another day.

Linking up with See Fresh Quiltsand Freshly Pieced.

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DWMonday

Posted on May 11, 2015 by katyquilts

I’m on the way home from a great weekend visiting family. Before I left, I spent don’t time playing with designs for my paper pieced log cabin blocks on EQ7. Here are a few I came up with: