Kigwit's Thoughtful Spot
Hi, I'm Kigwit and I'm a quilter!
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Monday, March 04, 2024
A "normal" block
It felt so good to stitch this block. I felt like I was doing something "normal" after the dogs quilt. LOL
Sunday, March 03, 2024
And it's a top
One of my goals for the weekend was to get the borders on this quilt. And here it is! It is nearly a square quilt, the length is about two inches shorter than the width. I'm proud of it as it was a lot of work to get the dogs all facing the correct direction! Now I need to piece some minky for the backing. . .
After this is quilted and bound, I plan to snuggle with it on the sofa-with my dog!
Friday, March 01, 2024
A stop border. . .
I was going to add a 2.5 inch stop border but had a re-think and went for 1.5. It will finish at 1 inch which feels right. I still need to cut and add the dog border fabric. The stop border is a little ruffly so I may need to re-do it.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Friday, February 23, 2024
A little hexie love
So the company, Paper Pieces, hands out these little sample kits at the Houston Quilt Festival every year. I usually share mine-like I got my sister hooked-but I've never done one. So I pulled one out and stitched up this hexie goodness. I plan to applique it on red fabric and make a mug rug out of it.
The instruction page from Paper Pieces warns that hexies are addictive. This is most certainly true!!
Monday, February 12, 2024
Gone to the dogs
So I am working on a sample quilt for my book club. This is the Reflections pattern by Karen Montgomery. (It's basically a delectable mountains block.) I had planned to use this funky fabric but as I was digging around for brown fabric in my stash I came across these dogs and was smitten! I had to use them. Of course, I couldn't make it easy on myself.
The first block showed me that I, after cutting the fabric as instructed, would have to have the blocks in a vertical orientation. I really prefer the horizontal version. Can you see how the dogs are facing? So I cut another test block and got all of the dogs going the right way. I'm leaving out lots of cutting errors as I sub-cut the pieced blocks (grrrr). I had to get DH to help me lay out the blocks as it was! Tonight I'm hoping to get another full block pieced so I can try the alternating blocks. I'm hoping to have this finished for Book Club on Saturday so I really need to spend some time. I had two yards of the dog fabric and I was hoping to have some for a border but it's not looking good. And this is really old fabric!!
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