KatyQuilts

Have you ever taken part in a block swap? I am involved with an ongoing swap in my local guild this year. Today I got the blocks back from our first exchange.

Aren’t they fun? I haven’t decided yet what I will do with them. I may make 4 more and that would be enough for a Quilt of Valor.

I am also taking part in an exchange with the Small Quilt Talk group. We are exchanging 3″ finished 9 patches. We each make up to five sets of ten blocks. I finished mine and sent them off to our swap hostess today.

I really love these little blocks. I may have to make some more because these would make a great bed quilt!

I have the pattern now for the next local swap so I need to get to work!

Linking up with My Quilt Infatuation for Needle and Thread Thursday. Have a great Thursday!

You may remember that last year about this time, I made a tag blankie for Baby L. I finally finished another for Baby E! They are big Detroit Lions fans in their house so I used Lions fabric and came up with my own football pattern.

Then it was time to scrounge up some bits of ribbon to make the tags and add a soft minkie type fabric for the backing.

There are many tutorials online for making these, though you really don’t need one.

And here is my beautiful boy!

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

I recently finished another Quilt of Valor for a member of the Stitching Sisters QOV group. I wanted to do a custom job on this lovely top but feeling so very behind, I decided to do a panto and be done.

Here is shot of the back. It really is navy blue!

I used Warm and White batting and Glide thread. The panto is called Loop the Loop and it is from Urban Elementz.

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

I managed one small finish this week. I am happy to have found and finished this UFO. Here is what it looked like when I found it last week.

I took this with me on my trip when I realized with some rearranging that it could be a table runner. I worked on it in the car and made the top version you see below.

I think a table runner should look good from all sides and that version wasn’t symmetrical enough for me. So I took it apart again and came up with the bottom version. I’m still not crazy about it but it is what it is. I layered it with a backing and batting and turned the whole thing pillowcase style. I added minimal quilting with my walking foot and called it done.

That is not enough quilting for me normally but it was all I had energy for this week.

Thanks for all the well wishes. Be careful out there, this flu is a nasty one and you can pick it up pretty much anywhere!

Linking up with  Crazy Mom Quilts, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, and Richard and Tanya Quilts.

……for this.

I felt awful coming home yesterday and a trip to the doctor today confirmed Influenza A. I think hubby has it too. It is highly contagious so I will be out of work for a week. If only I felt good enough to sew. But I don’t.

I did iron the table runner that I took apart and resewed. Here is the before:

And the after:

I am much happier with this arrangement but I am still not in love with it. Maybe I will like it better after quilting.

And now I am gong to lay down again….. I hope all is well in your world.

We are traveling home today but I thought I would post an update on my block a day log cabins as of last Thursday.

I didn’t bring a machine with me so I am now behind. I really don’t mind working ahead but I hate playing catchup. I do have 25 of these blocks that I made a couple years ago so I may just cheat a bit and add a few of those to my stack. They will all end up in the same quilt anyway. I just like to look at the stack and see how many days of winter are behind me!

I will be sewing some more hexies today!

And I will most likely do some slow unstitching as well on this:

Judy left a comment saying, if I was thinking about it, I should do it as it would always bug me. She’s right. I’m going to bite the bullet and to it. Thanks, Judy!

Linking up with Kathy for Slow Stitching Sunday.