Another Katie's Quilt

     MSQC has a pattern called "Katie's Quilt". It is a bit unique because you sew charm squares on both sides, cut in half, sew in strips and then make 4 patches. I had some bright charm squares that Gwen gave me and added some others. The white lozenge shapes are made by snowballing the rectangle corners with black triangles. I used the Simple Folded Corners ruler for this instead of sewing diagonally on a square (hate that method, I am never on the line). 

     Since there are so many polka dots in the little squares, I picked a blue border that had big subtle dots in it. In piecing the backing, I used neutral grays. The scratchy gray polka dot I had been hording and the large fan, dot print I also got from Gwen. I think they look great together. Someone in my guild has a real aversion to backs pieced like this and I know I will hear it during show and tell.

    In the 4 patches, I used swirls in each square. I used straight lines in the lozenge shapes for anchor the color squares. I used cross hatching in the large 16 patches to echo the diagonal feel of the black HSTs. The border uses Baptist fans. Around the inside of the border, I made paisley repeats. At first, I had a star in those corners. After I took the quilt off the longarm, I saw those stars were useless, so I ripped them out and FMQ the same paisleys with my Singer 301 in the same thread. Love the corners now.

The star did nothing to add to overall look

Corrected corner

Quilting detail

     This is a comfort quilt, recipient unknown yet. I used Glide Sky on top and Premo Soft Hawaiian blue in the bobbin.