KatyQuilts

it has been a wonderful Quilty week around here. In addition to my sewing time this week,  I was able to meet up yesterday with a couple members of my Stitching Sisters QOV group. We had a nice chat and I picked up some more tops to be quilted. So that means, it is QOV week here! I came home and loaded the first one up and finished it last night.  

 This lovely pinwheel top was pieced by Susan. This is the panto I used: 

 I used Affinity red/white/blue variegated thread from FIL-Tec. Of course I couldn’t wait to load the next one. This beautiful top was pieced by Terri. Isn’t it beautiful? 

 I got a couple rows quilted early this morning and hope to finish this after work this afternoon.

In other fun news, I won a ribbon this week at our local guild show. 

 I will share other pictures from the show in a post next week.

Have a wonderful day! 

I have a bit  of this and that gong on again this week. I have made 3 more blocks for my City Sampler quilt.

These finish at 6 inches. I plan to use all solids, one color in several shades for each block.

I finished quilting the HST quilt and got the machine sewing  of the binding on.



I had a quilt guild meeting last night and turned in my Goose in the Pond blocks. I had planned to work on the hand stitching of the HST binding but forgot my thread. Grrrr……

I hit a small milestone on Instagram this week.



Who would have thought that 500 people would be interested in my daily sewing? 

Linking up with My Quilt Infatuation for NTT.

I started another long term project this week. If you recall, Daughter #1 gave me this book for my birthday. 

I decided, I would use all solids for the blocks. I have no time table for this project. I pulled out some bits of greens and blues for this first block.

It didn’t take long to make the first block!

And now it gets its own project box. 

Now, which block shall I make today?

Linking up with Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and Sew Fresh Quilts for Let’s Bee Sewcial.

Mondays are laundry days for me. I don’t work at the library on Mondays and after the weekend, we always seem to have plenty to wash. But not today. Mr. Wonderful did our laundry on Sunday afternoon so I could have more time to sew today. Wasn’t that sweet? And then, Daughter #3 made dinner so I didn’t even have to cook! I made good use of my time too. Remember these?

They got all sewn up into this:

I even got it loaded onto the frame! Now, I just have to decide what thread to use for the quilting.

I always struggle with this decision. I don’t have a huge selection of long arm thread yet.  What are your go to colors for machine quilting?

Hoping to get the quilting on this done before work today.  Linking up with Free Motion by the River for Linky Tuesday and I have to Say for Show and Tell Tuesday. Also linking up with Quilting Jet Girl for Thankful Thursday.

This weekend I finally finished my Goose in the Pond swap blocks..

There are actually 15 of them but my design wall is full so I just put these on the floor for a picture. I love these blocks but at 77 pieces in each one, they were a bit much for a block exchange!  They finish at 15″ so they are pretty big.

I have also played around with the layout of this quilt some more.

I would like to get this top pieced this week. I also have to get labels on a couple quilts for a local show and drop them off Wednesday before work. Friday I will be driving an hour south to meet up with a member of Stitching Sisters to pick up more QOVs to quilt. And this weekend is the local quilt show. So it is shaping up to be a busy quilting week without much stitching time!

Linking up with Patchwork Times for DWMonday.



I hated not having a finish last week but I have a big one this week. My 1930’s Vintage Carpenter Wheel top is now quilted and bound and gracing my own bed! Here are a few gazillion pics.

I really tried to save the diamond border but it was just not working. I bound it using the same muslin that I used on the back and it matched the front quite well. It fits my bed really well!

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have lots of Quilty finishes this week.

Linking up with Richard and Tanya Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, and Quilt Matters.

I mentioned yesterday that I was starting something new. Daughter #1 saw the IKEA Postcard Quilt by Jeliquilts on Instagram and loved it. You can see her blog post here. So I went on a bit of a search for the appropriate fabrics to make something similar for her. It won’t be the same. I love her quilt but this will be smaller and I am not using the same fabrics or arrangement. She does offer the free pattern on Craftsy here.

These were cut from this layer cake that I got from Missouri Star Quilt Company.

i used this die to cut my 3″ finished triangles.

And then the fun began.

This is definitely not a final arrangement, just a start to get them up on the wall. I am cutting a few solid scraps to add in here and there as well.

So that is my new WIP. Linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday and Sew Fresh Quilts for Let’s Bee Sewcial.

I finished 4 Goose in the Pond blocks last night before I was stopped for lack of pieces.

All the HSTs are done. But you see my 9 patch and rail fence piles are lacking.

Still waiting on the background fabric. In the mean time, I have started something new. I will share that tomorrow.

Linking up with Free Motion by the River for Linky Tuesday  and She Can Quilt for Scraptastic Tuesday.