Katie Mae Quilts

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12

Home Study - in progress

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 1

In Progress: 11

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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Airplane Dreams - Finished!

This is the first of two baby quilts I made for a friend who refuses to find out the gender of her baby. I don't do neutral.

The pattern is "Raspberry Dessert" by Jaybird Quilts, in the May/June 2011 Quiltmaker. Except I thought it was Raspberry Dreams, which really makes no sense. Who dreams about raspberries? ...but that's how the name Airplane Dreams came about.

The center squares are all airplane fabrics - mostly Robert Kaufman.

The blue dots are Moda, the dark blue stripe is something I've had stashed for ten years and replicates itself in my scrap bin, the colored squares - no idea, selvage was gone - and the light blue is a Joann's solid.

The binding is Pop Parade by P&B.

The back is minkee - love it for baby blankets.

The quilting...not as loved. The blue solid had so much possibility, yet I ended up picking out three different attempts. I wish I could free motion quilt, but alas, my OCD-ness has never let me doodle.

A glamour shot?

{Remind me to trade quilting lessons for staging lessons with Lori.}

Measures 48x48"

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Fabric Tuesday

Whoop Whoop Friday

Finish It Up Friday

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Sunday Stash Report - Week 16

Well, I really was trying to keep the net stashing under 50 yards. I blame my friends.

The LQS gives 15% off for your birthday for you and a friend. I generously offered to be Elissa's friend. I needed one more food fat quarter for my picnic quilt...and Poetica is just lovely...and what really hurts is over five yards of my usual neutral. Youch.

And then, my bad-influence-running-friend sent me four 1/2 yard cuts from Hawaii. {She also sent me the link to the 20th Anniversary WDW Marathon registration. NO. I don't care how awesome the medal is. I don't want to run for six hours.}
That brief trip to the quilt shop hooked her, though. She's taking sewing classes now just so she has a reason to buy fabric again.
I'm making her a pillow cover as a thank you, and asked her favorite color combo. She said purple and teal/turquoise. Oh, you mean, the Poetica I just bought? Hi, fate!

I did finish Airplane Dreams, so backing and binding, out!

And the Unnamed Baby Girl top.

Used this Week: 5.35

Used Year to Date: 41.81

Added this Week: 10.16

Added Year to Date: 96.08

Net Used for 2012: (54.27) yards

Uh, new goal...make it back below 50 before I hit 100?

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

WiP/FMC - Focus

News Flash: when you work on one project at a time, instead of flitting between five of them, you can finish things a lot better. Go figure.

Fifteen Minute Challenge

Kit #4 is for a mason jar picnic quilt - I've been collecting the food fabric for a couple years now. I have the yellow for the jar lids, and the "wood" for the shelves to add this week.
Kit #5 will be Funky Wrenches. I need to figure out and buy the background yardage. It's definitely not going to be Kona White! {Which I have on hand and is too bright.}

Non-QA Quilts:

Airplane Dreams - 50% quilted!

Unnamed Baby Girl Quilt - block #3 of three. Baby shower is Saturday, so there will be a reveal soon!

Quilt-Alongs
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/12 blocks - none

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 6/36 - new blocks to make

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - Blocks done, center medallion started

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - none

Granny Squares {mine} - none

Untouched This Week:

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12

Home Study - in home interview was last weekend. I think it went well. Except for the Dude's interview. The kid who hasn't finished his sandwich in a week (but manages to eat his cookies, of course) told her that I don't pack a big enough lunch for him. Which would be humorous, except he's 45 pounds, so he could actually pass as a starving child.

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 12

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Sunday Stash Report - Week 15

I won a Sewline marking pencil at a LQS. So I had to pick it up...and...

The panel is Coffee Cat Cafe. It has a black cat on it. Of course I needed it.

I actually have some plans for my coffee fabric stash - I love Kate's coffee cups, so I'm going to shamelessly steal them for a table runner. I just threw away my seriously gross floor mat, so I'm going to use some of the panels for that. Soon.

And the Pez... I will be kitting it for the summer to make these Funky Wrenches. It looks so great in brights, and I don't have very many brights. So... I needed them.

I also picked up four quarter yard cuts at my other LQS for my Saturday Sampler. And the backing for one of my baby quilts.

Which is in the quilting process, so I'm counting the top out. Catnapping is apparently part of the process.

I also made two OSU ribbon blankies this week, and three burp rags.

And, while I was cutting a kit from a giveaway win, I discovered they were fat eighths, not fat quarters. Which works perfectly fine for the quilt, but I'm not going to let twice the fabric linger in my report! ;)

Used this Week: 2.79

Used Year to Date: 36.46

Added this Week: 4.69

Added Year to Date: 85.92

Net Used for 2012: (49.46) yards

Really, really close to 50...but not quite!

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

WiP/FMC - Insert Catchy Title Here

Nothing really catchy or exciting this week. I suppose that's a good thing? I mean, there's only so many times I can mention how much I loved the Hunger Games. {Y'all. Read it. Go see it. Seriously.}

My pictures are pretty awful this week - we're having intermittent sunshine, which meant none when I needed it. Sorry. The rain we've been having has been great for weeding, though. {Yay?}

Fifteen Minute Challenge

I'm really enjoying the hotel kit project. I normally cut as I go, so having everything ready is weird, in a good way. Kit #2 is a Sudoku set that just needed sashing cut.
Kit #3 is the LynneBobSquarePants block, cut from fat eighths I won from the Sarcastic Quilter.
Each F8 yielded 18 3" squares; the block requires 16. 18/16 match up at 9 blocks/8 F8. I have 8 small print F8s. Nine blocks make a nice 36" square. This made my nerdy OCD mind deliriously happy.
I still need to pick/cut background fabric, and think about possible borders with the remaining larger print F8s.

Non-QA Quilts:

{Edited to add: TraceyJay is having a "Just Three" for April. Since the babies are due in May, my "just three" are these two quilts, plus the granny squares (using TraceyJay math!) below.}

Airplane Dreams - top done!

Unnamed Baby Girl Quilt - I am really lacking in title skills right now. This is Block #2 of three. Yes, I'm keeping the final design a secret for now.

Not A Quilt:

After having this in mind for a couple of years, I finally experimented with the pillowcase dress using buttonhole elastic. And it worked...I think. I don't have a test subject yet because the Dude draws the line at trying on dresses.
I have a couple of adjustments to make before I get to the tutorial version. After I steal a girl to check measurements.

Quilt-Alongs
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/12 blocks - none

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 6/36 - new blocks to make

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - Blocks done, HSTs for center medallion started.

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - none

Granny Squares {mine} - rethought and therefore seam ripped...again. I like the three color ones better. Enough that I tore apart six perfectly fine four-color ones. Sigh. I really do like these better. 4/12 completed. {And by completed, I do mean minus-corner-triangles-because-I-might-tear-them-apart-again-and-lose-track-of-corner-and-side-triangles.}

Untouched This Week:

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12

Home Study - we swapped the personal interview and the home interview. {To see the Hunger Games. Have I mentioned that?} So, home interview is this Saturday. And I'm a lot less nervous after meeting the social worker.

New Projects: 0

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 12

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

WiP/FMC - Mojo

I took a week off to recover my mojo... Part of my time off was not reading blogs. I should have kept that up for another week. What is it about the spring that brings out quilting controversy and the snarky anonymous comments?

{My husband, who reads CNN comments, laughs at me. And then says he's glad he fights for the freedom to make snarky anonymous online comments. And then I start laughing hysterically because seriously, that was one of the comments I read. Yes, people, my husband is heading to Afghanistan to protect your right to make snarky anonymous online comments. We're very proud of him. *inappropriate Team America quote*!}

But, ahem, anyway. My mojo is back.

For my Fifteen Minute Challenge, I'm doing something new. This summer, we're going to be living in a hotel for about six weeks while my husband finishes his training. I will go insane if I can't sew for six weeks, but I won't have access to a design wall or a place to cut yardage. So I'm kitting up some simple baby quilts. Every day I spend fifteen minutes ironing, cutting and bagging up a quilt.

Kit #1: Nine patch and snowball

I started two new quilts this week, both for the same friend who refuses to find out if her unborn baby is a boy or girl. I don't do neutral.

The girl block

The boy block

{I know what you're thinking. Kate, you branched out! It's a half log cabin!}

She'll get one, the other will be for sale on my Facebook page.

I finished Frolicking Pinwheels last week. Been doodling quilting patterns on it ever since. I don't have anything with a curve that big to trace!

Quilt-Alongs
Fat Quarter Stars - 6/12 blocks - none

LQS Saturday Sampler 2012 - 6/36 - new blocks to make

LQS Saturday Sampler 2011 - Blocks done, center medallion started.

Quiltville Orca Bay {Skorca!} - backing pieced and ready for basting

Swoon A Little, Swoon A Lot - no new blocks

Granny Squares - rethought the center squares, and much of the other squares, too. It wasn't bright enough. I salvaged some of the squares and this is the first of the new blocks. Minus the corners. I would totally get the sides and the corners mixed up (I'm using the Traceyjay no-bias edges method), so those will go on all the blocks right before sashing.

Untouched This Week:

Awaiting Quilting...will no longer be seen here. After the hotel living, we're going to live with my parents, and they have a huge basement floor that's begging for someone to baste on it. {And, bonus, three more cats to "help"!} So my focus will be quilt tops until then. And I don't want to look at a long list of projects I'm not working on! I will get them listed on a page up top soon.

Awaiting Binding:

Big Blue

Adoption:

Application Submitted - 2/12

Home Study - home interview is Saturday. I tell myself I'm not nervous...as I scrub the kitchen grout with bleach.

New Projects: 2

Completed Projects: 0

In Progress: 12

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