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Have a Heart

January 30, 2018 By Katie Leave a Comment

As I was folding up my Heart Value quilt at the bottom of the bed this morning I pondered about all the quilts and patchwork projects that I’ve used the graphic heart shape and symbol. I thought looking forward to February it might be fun to go back in time and show them all here in one post. If you need more detail feel free to follow the links.

My Heart Value quilt has lived on the bed since I finished it last Spring. What do I love about it? That it has so much of my stash to look at, but it’s the simple vertical straight lines of the quilting that really do it for me. I was a bit concerned with how stiff it was with all the quilting, but it wasn’t anything a good washing couldn’t relaxed and with a flannel back it’s now dreamy with drape. Tutorial here if you want to make your own.

Populating my sofa for the next month are these Fractured Heart pillows. I love the variegated thread and again combined with the simple straight lines. Simplicity. I can’t get enough of making these fun Split Personality blocks into all sorts of patchwork goodness (more to come), but the heart shape seems to work well.

I put together a tutorial for my Heartstrings Quilt. Perfect for those jelly rolls you had to have or all those left over strips;) I think I love most how happy this quilt is. The simple cross hatch quilting was a perfect finish. I’d like to make more of these.

Still my favorite and wish it was 10x the size is my BIG Tossed Hearts Quilt. All those yummy print fabrics made into Split Personality blocks and tucked into a pieced background. I’ve really embraced running out of a color and digging around in stash for something close to finish up.

And a new one to end! The brighter days are a bit hard to come by in Seattle come winter, so I’ll have to get more photos on a brighter day. This new one is made with the Double-Trouble blocks. I’ll be teaching Double-Trouble Saturday, February 10th in my Seattle studio and with the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild in early March.

Looking outside, the Boca Raton trip can’t come soon enough.

Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century

January 23, 2018 By Katie 7 Comments

Forming The Seattle Modern Quilt Guild seems like such a long time ago now. I’ve met some of my closest friends through the group. In the beginning we just hung out together in a lovely church up on Phinney Ridge and quilted. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the days of the guild being small, but movements take hold because there is interest in doing more and we became one of the first to formalized into our non-profit status as part of The Modern Quilt Guild.

Had the Modern Quilt Guild stayed small and this movement not grown, my quilts, studio and teaching likely wouldn’t have evolved and intertwined itself into my life at the level it has.

And then the Modern Quilt Guild conceived Quiltcon and I had a comfortable avenue to submit my quilts for exhibit and I did so every year. 2018 is the first Quiltcon I haven’t submitted to the exhibit and I have to say that it was a mix of bad timing, needing my quilts for the workshops, and that having my quilts in the new release of Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century felt like accomplishment enough.

It’s certainly an honor to have my quilts placed next to some of the artists I admire most in this beautiful coffee table book by the Modern Quilt Guild. Two of my quilts are in the book, Skewed Symmetry and Diving Geese. You can read more about these quilts and the process of making them here and here.

I submitted a few quilts to Quiltcon last year and tag Skewed Symmetry on at the end. If you were ever to see my trunk show/lecture you would probably think this one doesn’t fit in with my other quilts. It lacks the color I generally go for, but it’s good to push the limits and make something out of your comfort zone every once in awhile.

My Diving Geese quilt was made with a crazy piecing method I’ll be teaching at Quiltcon this year. It hung a few years ago. Quilted by my friend Krista Withers, it won Best in Quilting.

Good thing the book is hardcover. It’s pages have been thumbed through by all the students in the studio and there might be a little margarita salt stain already. We all agree what a beautiful and well published book this is. Very inspirational.

I’m bookending the tour here, but go have a browse at all the other amazing artists involved and pick yourself up a copy of Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century, you won’t regret it;)

12/13/17	Amber Corcoran	Fancy Tiger Crafts
12/14/17	Heidi Parkes	Heidi Parkes Art
12/15/17	Melissa Cory	Happy Quilting
12/16/17	Penny Gold	Studio Notes
12/18/17	Shruti Dandekar	13 Wood House Road
12/19/17	Amy Friend	During Quiet Time
12/20/17	Paige Alexander	Quilted Blooms
12/21/17	Angela Bowman	Angela Bowman Design
12/22/17	Lysa Flower	Lysa Flower
12/27/17	Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill	Whole Circle Studio
12/28/17	Jacquie Gering	Tall Grass Prairie Studio
12/29/17	Christa Watson	Christa Quilts
12/30/17	Heather Black	Quilt-achusetts
1/2/18	Kristin Shields	Kristin Shield Art
1/3/18	Krista Hennebury	Poppy Print Creates
1/4/18	Cinzia Allocca	Deux Petites Souris
1/5/18	Suzanne Paquette	Atelier Six Design
1/6/18	Yvonne Fuchs	Quilting Jetgirl
1/9/18	Ben Darby	Hunts Patch Quilts
1/10/18	Nicole Daksiewicz	Modern Handcraft
1/11/18	Kristi Schroeder	Initial K Studio
1/12/18	Kathy York	Art Quilts by Kathy York
1/13/18	Marla Varner	Penny Lane Quilts
1/15/18	Brigette Heitland	Zen Chic
1/16/18	Stacey Sharman	Hello Stitch Studio
1/17/18	Stacey O’Malley	SLO Studio
1/18/18	Kim Soper	Leland Ave Studios
1/19/18	Steph Skardal	Steph Skardal Quilts
1/20/18	Cheryl Brickey	Meadow Mist Designs
1/22/18	Shea Henderson	Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio
1/23/18	Katie Larson	Katie Larson Studio
1/24/18	Katie Pedersen	Sew Katie Did

New Year, New Techniques

January 9, 2018 By Katie Leave a Comment

Happy New Year Peeps!

Have you had your fill of green smoothies yet?

Students and I kicked off the new year in the studio Saturday by flexing our creative muscles with an Embrace Our Curves workshop. Confidence in mastering improvisational curves grew and unique designs started to grown on the design walls rather organically.

It was so inspiring I had to restrain myself from starting a new curved project as I cleaned up, well ok, maybe I started one;)

This no pins required technique can be rather liberating. Come join me in the next round of this inspiring workshop, ~~including a Presidents’ Day session for my 9-5er peeps.~~ FULL Saturday, March 24th Available.

Don’t know if you’ve seen them on my Instagram or Facebook feed, but just in time for Valentine’s Day I’ve added some new heart shaped quilt samples to My Double-Trouble Quilt block class. You might all have had enough of my hearts over the past year. According it Jefe it’s looking like an epidemic around here. I’ll take it;)

Not into hearts? No worries I still heart you and we’ll play with all types of geometric shapes of design layouts. Bonus, learn some shortcuts for making multiple half-square triangle blocks.

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Wanna have some hand binding ready for quality couch time this winter? Or maybe try your hand at box or zip pouches? Open Studios for the month of January are up and might be your calling. Please come pick my brain, learn something new and finish up while using the studio’s tools and Berninas. Sometimes we just need to make the time and have the space (or huge design wall) available to get things done!

All other available workshops are listed and can be schedule by contacting me😉

There will be plenty of traveling this season. If you’re in the neighborhood I’d love to see you. Please spread the word!

January 11th, 12th and 13th 2018: Vancouver, WA Clark County Quilters Guild | Lecture and Workshops
February 13th-15th 2018: Frasier Valley BC Frasier Valley Quilters Guild Lectures and Workshop
February 22nd-25th 2018: Pasadena, CA Quiltcon Workshops
March 2nd-4th 2018: Boca Raton, FL South Florida MQG Lectures and Workshops
March 2018 (dates to be announced): Vashon Island
June 2018 (dates to be announced) Friday Harbor, WA | Workshops in collaboration with San Juan Island Museum of Art’s contemporary response to the Gee’s Bend quilts.

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Embrace Your Curves | Mastering Improvisational Curves Workshop-

No pins required for this wonderfully liberated technique! Curves aren’t complicated when you create them improvisationally, even for beginners. We’ll go beyond mastering a curve and cover how to make your blocks unique by creating strip pieced rings and adding straight strips. Learn design and construction techniques to create blocks that back into the sizes you need to finish a project like a quilt, pillow or box pouch.

Let’s embrace our curves and add this fun technique to your quilting arsenal. If you enjoy my other classes that focus on technique within a finished block and freedom from matching seams than this is the next class on your list;)

Double-Trouble Triangles Workshop-

A modern quilt block that is really no trouble at all!

Double-Trouble is a fun quilt block and design workshop that merges a traditional half-square triangle block with an improvisational stitch and flip triangle technique. We’lll explore and inspire each other on the design walls with the unlimited controlled and chaotic quilt design potential this block has to offer. One block = endless designs!

I’ll will have multiple examples made with prints and solids to show for inspiration.

P.S. I wanted to share a little game changer for sewing. These LED light strips stick to the inside harp of your sewing machine. I can’t rave enough about how much they improve sewing on long dark rainy days or make my ailing eye sight seem drastically improved. Treat Yourself!

I’ve got four quilts bound and am ready for Winter/Couch Olympics. Hope to see you and that your season’s start is creative. xo Katie

Shortest Day of the Year

January 4, 2018 By Katie Leave a Comment

This post has had over three names. The one named ‘shortest day of the year’ might be an indication of how many times I tried to make it here. Life has taken control and I’ve gone with it, but it’s time to hit the ‘post’ button.

I love the reflection that the new year brings. I’ve been thinking lately about the comfortable pace at which my teaching, lecturing and working with students in the studio has grown over the past few years and nestled itself happily into my life. I’m truly thankful to hang out with a bunch of people that share the same delight in cutting fabric apart and sew it back together. A big thanks for your support and spreading the word about the studio and my teaching.

My season of travel is coming up and I’ve had the opportunity to travel to places I’ve never been for teaching and lectures. I’ve also spread my wings a bit and accepted an invite to teach at a private retreat. What a fun treat to have several days to work on one quilt technique.

Here’s 2018’s workshops and lectures:

January | Maple Valley Washington
January | Vancouver Washington
February | Frasier Valley BC and Quiltcon
March | Private Retreat in Leavenworth WA
March | Boca Raton Florida
June | Friday Harbor Washington

I’m pretty thrilled with my workshop offerings now. They have really tightened up in the past year and the feedback on my style of teaching has been wonderful.

As a teacher I’ve found that improvisational techniques are fun, but without a block structure most students were going to leave a workshop with another UFO regardless of showing them how to build out a quilt design. Sure, it would be great to create whatever I want, but as I’m designing I have to ask myself, “How could I teach this?” That question alone brings me back to block construction. Combining an improvisational technique with block structure has led my workshops onto a path that everyone seems to feel they can successfully finish a quilt that’s unique to them. Win-Win.

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Winter will be a tight wrap for the studio with all the travel, but I’ve got a few workshops and Open Studios lined up and I’ll get a few more up in the next week or so. Embrace your Curves is this Saturday and I have had a last minute cancelation if anyone is interested in making blocks using this improv technique. No pin curves, I promise!

We’ll also be making some zip pouches on Friday January 19th, one slot left.

I’m not much of a resolutions person, but I am a creature of habit and like to think about things that create happiness. I generally pick something small and if I’m going to deprive myself of some indulgence I always pick the month of February since it’s the shortest;) Last year I made my bed every day and this year I was toying with 15 burpees a day, but haven’t done it yet. Got any similar plans?

We’ll see what happens for 2018 Peeps. Have a great holiday.

Paneling | An Improvisational Quilt Design Tutorial

November 7, 2017 By Katie 9 Comments

I snapped a few photos of the construction method I refer to in my improvisational workshops as ‘paneling.’ My Skewed Symmetry quilt is just one example of what students can do with the cast off blocks from my strip piecing workshop Psychedelic Baby and finish with paneling.

I’m missing some of the basic photos, but I think you’ll get the idea. When designing improvisationally a design wall is a must (see my tutorial here). If you’re lacking design wall space this one is for you.

1) Complete Blocks & Trim | The first step is sewing together the cast off blocks along their angled edge to create the mitered log cabins. Trim to their largest square or rectangular size.

2) Construct 2 Columns with Blocks | Play with the layout of your blocks by stacking them on the design wall into two columns of blocks. Each of my columns has 4 mitered log cabin blocks.

In the photo above I’ve already sewn some background fabric to the top and side of block in the right upper corner and to the side of the bottom block, but the vertical continuous straight line you see above is where the two columns of blocks come together.

3) Panel Out Blocks | If you have a certain quilt size in mind then create yourself some margins to stay within by taping out the size of the finished quilt on the design wall next. I just used pins for this one.

Now that you have your quilt size marked, choose a background fabric and measure out with a tape measure from the top of the block to the tape/pins marking the top of the quilt. Cut your fabric and sew to the top of the upper block. I usually go a little larger so I can trim down in the end and don’t have to fuss with seams.

Trim the background fabric you’ve added so that it is square with the side of the block. Now we add background fabric to the side of this block and bring it to the width we’ve taped/pinned out. Take a measurement for the background fabric again adding for seams.

Continue adding background fabric to the side of the blocks by measuring out from the block to your quilt’s margins and trim the background fabric square to the blocks. Finish the column by adding background fabric to the bottom of the last block in the column just as you did with the first block.

Now I repeat the paneling on the left with black as my background fabric. Follow the directions above.

I didn’t talk about the little bits of vertical ‘strata’ at the top and bottom, but those are just added to the side of the background fabric prior to adding them to the blocks on the bottom right and top left.

Sew Blocks into Columns | Now that all my blocks have background fabric I sew them together into the two columns and trim a straight edge on both sides as needed.

Sew Columns Together | I usually pin the columns if I want something to match and sew them together. I like to use (2) huge square templates and a 36″ ruler or two to square it to size.

One of my No/Know Quilts is constructed in a very similar manner with the exception of rows AND columns.

I’m currently binding another quilt that is an example of what you can do with the cast off blocks that isn’t improvisational in design. Hope to show you all that one soon.

If you want to learn more about improvisational quilt design we have a whole chapter in Quilting Modern about it! If you’re interested in these blocks I’m teaching it at Quiltcon and there are some spaces left;)

Happy Week Peeps!

Collecting Spook II

October 24, 2017 By Katie 1 Comment

I tricked my house all out for Halloween before heading on my mini road trip. It really made it feel like fall had arrived.

The timing for teaching and trunk shows in Bend and Ashland couldn’t have been better. The trees were all turning and the people ready to get back into the quilting groove. My student’s enthusiasm about what they were learning was like an inspirational refresh button for me as well.

In between towns I had loads of free time and made a side trip to see Crater Lake which was experiencing a little snow storm. I’m a Michigander to Flagstaff girl, but it’s been awhile since I’ve driven on snow. Though lovely I don’t miss it;)

Now that I’m home I’ve done some rearranging and added some more.

Usually I get to making one Halloween project. The buckets might be it this year, besides a possible pillow while teaching zippers Thursday night.

The truth is we’re not lacking in Halloween pillows (or fabric) anyway, but they sure are fun to make.

Gone are the days Roan will use his little Trick or Treat bags, a pillowcase is all he’ll want this year, so I actually packed these little trick or treat bags into his trunk for safekeeping. I’m not a saver, but these have too many fond memories.

My Skully candy bag (paper pieced pattern by twiddle tails) is all ready for the night, though there seems to be a dwindling supply of its original contents.

While I’m excited for him to wander around with his friends this Halloween, it sure is sweet to look upon the past.

With Halloween almost here I’ve started thinking about the holidays and added some gift workshops to the line-up including evening sessions. We’ve got a lot of gifting to make including invisible zipper pillows, box and zip pouches, rope bowls. The quilting workshop will be Double-Trouble, triangles with a little tradition and a little improv.

The first sessions I listed filled, so I’ve added new additional dates.

Happy crafting peeps!

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:: Split Crumbs Quilt Top ::

October 4, 2017 By Katie 4 Comments

Loving this finish.

This Split Personality crazy piecing technique that I’ve been teaching is so fast and satisfying. I can’t stop making the blocks in all my favorite color ways.

I’ve made several sets and they’re waiting for their own quilt designs to come to me. I’ve also had a little personal challenge going on to make quilt tops come together with fabric I already have, a task that takes a little more design time.

I used traditional block techniques like half squares and quarter squares and randomly placed them up on the design wall filling in here and there with solid fabrics. For the quilting I off set it a bit, diagonally coming together somewhat in the center. It was enough without distracting.

Alexander Henry from stash for the back.

I love this Notorious line by Cotton and Steel for the binding.

This turned out to be an easy baby quilt and I love the heart pillows I made with the left over blocks even more.

I wish I could have both of these in two places at once so that I could show them at my lectures in Ashland next week and at the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild as samples for the November 4th workshop.

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:: Fractured Hearts Pillows ::

September 19, 2017 By Katie 6 Comments

I don’t know what it is about these crazy pieced blocks I call Split Personality, but I’ve got to say they’re nothing short of addictive. In talking with a few students in Saturday’s workshop, I’ve realized I’m not alone in this addiction. After learning the technique they’ve created more than a few sets and let them marinate on their design walls until the perfect quilt design idea came to them for their placement.

I had some left over blocks from my Split Crumbs Quilt top, so I placed them into one of my favorite shapes, the heart. I used the improvisational stitch and flip triangle technique we teach in Quilting Modern for the tops of the heart, and a good ole half square triangle for the bottom.

I’ve been wanting to play with a binding/sashing for pillows, but will have to start teaching myself another zipper or closing technique besides an invisible zip.

The variegated thread stitched up a lovely line. I was thinking a grid, but it didn’t need it.

In the Studio’s evening Open Studio for September and October we’ll focus on installing an invisible zipper into a pillow. I know it sounds complicated and scary, but I actually know 12- year olds that do it without calling their mommy and trust me, making pillows is addictive in a good way. You are welcome to bring any project though.

Of course if you don’t need the hand holding, but just a good tutorial for installing your own at home you can check my invisible zipper pillow tutorial out here.

The Seattle Modern Quilt Guild will be hosting me to teach the Split Personality Quilt Block November 4th. They’ll open up the workshop here soon, so save the date! Not sure but there might be some spots left at Quiltcon too.

Happy Week Peeps:)

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:: Ready-Set-Sew ::

September 11, 2017 By Katie 4 Comments

What a great summer we had here in the Northwest. I loved the heat and have to admit I’m a little sad to see the temps in the 70s. I actually mentioned at bootcamp Saturday that I was looking forward to boot season;) Of course the joy in all of this is guilt free sewing. The kid is back in school, travel a memory, all the company has come and gone and I’m to the point with the garden that I wish it good luck, and walk right by into the studio. Friday I did just that.

I’ll be traveling to Ashland and Bend in October to teach and lecture (come see me if you live there), but I’ve sprinkled a few workshops in between Open Studios onto the studio’s calendar.

:: Straight Line Quilting Workshop ::

Aren’t these fun?! It probably took me longer to pick out the prints, than to actually make these new bucket samples for my Straight Line Quilting Workshop.

I have a thing for Halloween fabrics, but the uses for the prints are a little limited. The wee ones will house candy or a spidery looking succulent and in the larger bucket I’ll tuck some napkins made from the left-overs. They would certainly be useful as baby shower or hostess gifts, but mostly I use them in the studio on every surface as thread catchers or scrap buckets.

I opted for some straight line quilting designs that I’ve done on quilts, but not on buckets and tried to tie the genre of the straight lines in with the theme of the prints.

:: The Foundations of Paper Piecing ::

I’ve had some requests for paper piecing. You may choose any paper piecing pattern, but if you’re inspired by my NY Beauty quilt, I’ll have that pattern available. If you’re wishing for sharp points and precise or miniature piecing than this is the technique to learn.

:: Invisible Zipper Pillow | Evening Class ::

I’ve got my sights set on some new pillows for fall and since a pillow (or maybe two) can be made within a few hours I’ve added my invisible zipper pillow workshop as a 3-hour evening open studio. Any project is welcome though.

:: Split Personality Quilt Block ::

I love it when people travel through Seattle and request a class! Please join us in some fun crazy piecing. This is a fast technique that creates 9-18 blocks in class depending on your speed.

I’ll also be teaching my Psychedelic Baby Workshop with the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild this Saturday if you’d like to join in.

I’ve got four quilts quilted and ready for binding so you should be seeing something new soon.

Happy Week Peeps!

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5th Annual Bainbridge Island Quilt Festival

August 1, 2017 By Katie 2 Comments

It’s that time of year again to start thinking about what to enter into my favorite quilt show.

I’m hoping to finish quilting up my Split Crumbs Quilt top this morning for the show to add along with my Hearts Value Quilt. This is a non-judged show and a great way to spend the day and show off your quilts.

Check out the link below to find out more!

Saturday, September 9, 2017

ENTER A QUILT NOW

Bainbridge Quilt Festival is a non-juried, non-judged celebration of quilts open to all quilters. Quilts are displayed outdoors along Winslow Way watched over by our many volunteers. Guidelines and entry forms are online at BainbridgeQuiltFestival.com

Deliver: September 8

Pick up: Day of Festival or by arrangement

BUY RAFFLE TICKETS

Dance Steps pieced by members of Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild. Quilting by Gladys Schulz. 54 X 66

Just $2 a ticket. Tickets at Esther’s Fabrics, July 4th booth, and first Friday ArtWalks Drawing at 4 on Festival day. You do not need to be present to win.

ENJOY FESTIVAL DAY

View amazing quilts hung outdoors along Winslow Way
Win a quilt.
Vote for your favorite quilt.
Sew blocks for American Hero quilts.
Buy a quilt.
Watch a demo by BARN fiber artists.
Enjoy the Farmer’s Market and shops along Winslow Way.

Bainbridge Quilt Festival is presented by Bainbridge Island Modern Quilt Guild a local affiliate of the nation Modern Quilt Guild. The Guild is a non-profit formed to develop and encourage the art of modern quilting. BIMQG supports quilters and other fiber artists interested in non-traditional quilting projects and offers educational opportunities through workshops and sharing of information. We also provide opportunity for works that give back to the community through the use of modern

On Point Scrappy Double-Trouble Quilt

July 19, 2017 By Katie 4 Comments

Where to start? We’re pretty much being spoiled brats around here right now.

Our Northern Irish have invaded and it sure doesn’t seem 2 years ago since we parted at the steps of a cafe in Spain. It’s only like we saw them yesterday. The calendar has been filled with the usual Seattle summer adventures we do together as a family. We’ve spoiled ourselves with full menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner and shared our love of margaritas. We’ve jumped off the raft in Lake Washington, shivered in the Sound and added floating down the Yakima River, laughing that we were eating quiche and that our cans of Rainer were chilled by the river just like our butts.

Many a birthday to celebrate in July. John’s passed with a raised glass to him, who knew our last goodbye would happen on those same steps in Spain.

Jefe celebrated another anniversary of his 21st,

and in the keeping it real department, my brother in law Jeremy’s 50th is at the end of the month. Living 4+ years with ALS he is still bossing us around. Everything’s different, yet everything’s the same he says.

His partner of 20+ years, Hallie is our hero and his rock.

Oh yeah, and quilting has happened here and there too. This quilt is an oldie.

I remember moving into the house and piecing this double-trouble quilt top in the little room that is now the kid domain. The crumbs that started the quilt are half square triangles from Roan’s quilt. I simply added improv stitch and flip triangles (you can find the technique in Quilting Modern) on the neutral side of each hst.

The scrap bins got a sifting through for the perfect fussy cuts of kid prints.

I placed and pieced the blocks on point to form the squares rather than diamonds. And then it sat patiently;)

I used the top as a template for building quilt backs in my class a few months ago. I figured when I was cleaning up the design walls after class that I might as well just sew together its back. One stage done and onto the next.

I ran the quilting a quarter inch along the seams vertically and horizontally first, before deciding to fill in more with the diagonal. I used a light blue Metler thread.

This quilt is a perfect eye spy with its bits and pieces from clothing I made Roan as an infant and the receiving blankets that my mom sewed.

Of course there’s fabric from stash on the back, some favorites in fact, all pieced willy-nilly together. It screamed green or orange for binding and the last of the Flea Market Fancy went towards that.

It looks kind of summery and cheerful.

Since I love having quilts in all various stages, I’ve got 2 more basted and a finished top up on the design wall, not to mention all sorts of play with the Split Personality block drifting around. It’s hard to say it but I’m trying to wrap my head around a few classes for fall coming up here. I’m excited to get to the samples, something new and fun.

Until August Peeps;)

Hearts Value Quilt

June 19, 2017 By Katie 10 Comments

I took my finished Heart Value quilt along on retreat. I like to have a quilt with me as a little reminder of home and knew I would have some helpers for photos. I think it was the only time I ventured outside and away from my sewing machine.

This is definitely the largest quilt I’ve ever quilted on the studio’s Berninas. It’s a little shy in width to a King. One of my Facebook readers asked when quilting if I go north to south, and then turn to go south to north? This quilt was too large to continually turn, so I just worked my way out from the middle. I started with a vertical quilting line ½” from the seams and then went back to fill in. It was the first time I’ve used the stitch in the ditch foot that came with my Bernina’s walking foot to tack down the seams. It turned out perfectly.

Oh, all that lovely color.

I combed through my stash to find just the right fabrics for each heart. Again a perfect sample of archiving all your lovely fabrics in one quilt. No matchy-matchy required.

I lack in low volumes except for an insane amount of light pink.