It's a Triangle Baby

With me, prints, and kona cottons.  Not really...well kinda.  lol.  I want to use more solids.  I am on a mission to use more solids.  I love them.  Love the look and the colors, but I always want to buy prints - and then I have no money left for solids.  Ugh...it is a tangled web.

Recently, it seems, my Kona favorite is Berry.  I have bought (and used) so much of that color.  I am gonna need something new and bright very soon.  But for now - I love how it mixed with these pink prints.

All of the prints came from my stash except 3 that I bought as fat quarters.  I am enamored with the randomness.  My mother is not.  Good thing it isn't for her, right? 

The back is all Kona - bright pink, azalea, camellia, carnation, medium pink, baby pink.
I was going for an ombre look.  I thought it would be fun and people are loving that now.  I got the idea from Jen @ BettyCrockerAss when she did a simple solid baby quilt in grays and citron. 

The straight-line quilting was a bear.  But completely worth it in the end.  I think the quilting is my absolutly favorite part of this quilt.
I used Aurifil 50wt in Pink Taffy, such a beautiful variegated thread.

This is for my cousin's baby Abbie.  She will be here around the end of July.  I gave it away this weekend and the future Momma loved it  YAY!!!  Quilty goodness strikes again!

Do you have any triangle tricks to share?  Like how to keep those seams from getting too hefty at the points?  I would like to know that one.  lol  Have a great week!

- Katelyn

So Curvy WIP

I don't know about you, but sewing curves - that seems terrifying.  Well it did. 

I LOVE curves in quilts.  I just never understood how to cut them, or sew them, or contemplate them.  lol.  But I decided I wanted to learn and my first step was getting some templates.

I got the 6in (finished) templates from Jen over at BettyCrockerAss.  She has an etsy shop and had some templates made.  They weren't expensive and I really wanted to learn how to use them...
Then I got them and I was so excited.  She even sent cute charm squares with them. 
Of course I had to experiment with cutting and sewing curves right away.

They are not perfect, but as perfect as they can be for a newbie.  ;)
I used am elmers glue stick to hold my fabric in place and that was WAY better than pinning for me.  

Originally I just pulled out scraps, but now it is going to be something.  I just have to get the right background fabric. 

Have a lovely weekend! 

 - Katelyn

Jacob's Ladder

My sister and I love quilts.  We didn't always.  We recently had a conversation about how we just thought they were old weird blankets- I know...  we were crazy.  
But right about the same time (in different countries) we discovered a love for quilts, old and new.
My sister received a wedding ring quilt from her mother when she got married.  She never used it... until the summer of 2011.  She decided it would look nice on the guest bed in her daughter's room.  This was the same summer that I decided I wanted to learn to quilt and the same summer that I went to Germany and stayed with her for 5wks. 
I have spent at least 5 minutes staring at it every time I have visited her ever since.  It's gorgeous.  Of course I can't find any of my photos of it...but I promise to post some next week sometime. 

But on to the point of this post (So sorry has taken this long if you have kept reading).  I was just at my sister's house visiting a few weeks ago.  And on my first evening there she and I went to the guest room to make up the bed...when we were finished she went to the closet and pulled out a big bag and said, "Merry Christmas!"  I opened it up and there was a vintage quilt.

 I was SHOCKED. 
That might even be an understatement.  I cried.

Wendy explained that she and her mom decided that I should have one of their heirloom quilts.  Since I loved them so much - that way it was going to a loving home.  Mary (my sister's amazing mom) sent Wendy pictures of all of the options and Wendy picked this one.  And then forgot it when she came for Christmas.

It is amazing.  I didn't know what the pattern was called (Jacob's Ladder) until I saw a friend make one on Instagram. 

This was made around the 30's.  They folded over the binding (I have never done that, but apparently it is common). 

This block is my favorite.

Two of the pieces are wrong side. It is just neat.  Wendy and I loved looking through all of the fabrics and trying to figure out what they were used for originally.

She told me that she picked this quilt for me because it has a lot of Gray and Blue in it.  Go Tigers!   ;)

I am still in awe of this quilt.  And in my amazing family.  How cool is this as a gift? 

- Katelyn

WIP : The one where I played with triangles

It all started with me wanting a reason to practice triangles...And when I needed to make a new baby quilt, the reason was there.  

I cut up some pink from my scraps and decided on 5.5 triangles due to scrap size. 

I tried to lay them out on my design wall (I made it!! love having it)

in a random manner.  

I used Kona Berry for my background.  I felt that the Berry would make the pinks pop!

Of course when I first made it, I didn't calculate how many triangles I actually needed.  So I had to add some more.

I love how it looks all together.  To me the randomness is so pretty and fun.  My mom doesn't agree...but that's ok.  Hopefully the future momma I'm giving it to will like it.  If not she can give it back.  lol

Now to quilt it.

- Katelyn