Courtside With Caitlyn Quilt

 So, I had the Caitlyn Clark fabric from the Shop Hop and it was crying to be sewn! So I was browsing my patterns and saw this one from Villa Rosa and thought it might work pretty well. 

These Villa Rosa Patterns are just one post card size of instructions, so they are pretty easy.  I had 2 of the Clark prints and a blender and a stripe. I think I talked about these fabrics earlier, they're a weird color.

Anyway, they sewed up pretty easy. 

Except for those half square triangles that make the little jog in the design! I had to unsew a few of them to get the triangle to go the right way. 

The layout is pretty easy, but it's a good thing I could lay it out on the bed because you do really need to see where you're going with the design!

So, I got the quilt top done and thought it would be great to quilt a basketball design on it. A long hunt on line didn't turn up any nice looking basketballs. I did find this cool  design of a tiger hawk inside an outline of the state. Here's the link to go see it. Oh Sew Kute Hawkeye Panto 

SO I bought the download and figured out the way to get it onto Freddie and stitched it out on a sample piece of fabric. Can you see it? Yeah, that's the lesson here. It's a busy little design and it gets lost on the busy hawkeye fabric, so I'm glad a did a little sample first because it would not look good on the Clark quilt at all. 

SO Instead, I chose a circle design that is a bonus design that came loaded on Freddie. 

I like the way it looks, kind of gives the impression of a ball, don't you think?

Freddie did a great job on the quilt. I used a gold colored thread, 40wt Glide, and wound matching bobbins. Here it is fresh off the machine.

This was the 2nd time I tried out fleece on the back. I tested with the blue fleece earlier and had no trouble at all with it so I was confident it would be great and it was! No tension issues or anything bad at all. 

I thought it would be pretty cool if I could find Indiana Fever fabric for the back (that's who Caitlyn plays for now in the WNBA), but no luck with that! SO I went with the Hawkeye fleece form Joann. 

And then outside to hang it up. 

Here's the back...

And a little close up-It's about 50"X60" so just a throw size, but it fit on the 60" fleece backing nicely.

And doesn't it look great! I'm so happy with the way this came out! 

Go Hawks-The Quilt Finish

 I forgot to mention what I got DD Dannie for her birthday. I went shopping at one of the antique stores over in Amana, but didn't want to spend quite that much on a single item.....

SO I got her this tiny little Jadeite Chicken! We all know how much she loves chickens-HAHAHA NOT! I also got her a new Scentsy and a name necklace and a heart necklace and some really beautiful flowers, as you can see in this photo she took. The flowers WERE very pretty until I tipped them over leaving the florists driveway. Gahhh! I broke one of the lilies. Grrrr! Anyways, she loved them. I also finished this hawkeye quilt the other day. 

So These pictures loaded backwards-here's the finished quilt!

I used the walking foot to make pretty darn straight lines!

I like the way it turned out. It's a pretty cute pattern called Skylight from the Missouri Star Quilt Company. Here's the link to it.

I was outdoors spray basting it and Caitlynn stopped by to ask me to fix a dress for her....later. It was a super nice day almost 60 degrees!

It looks a lot better in the daylight!

I like the little surprise boxes-everyone else who saw it while I was working on it didn't really like it. 

Here it is indoors. 

Those Hawkeye fabrics really work well together I think.

I've been collecting black & gold to coordinate for quite awhile. Here's the blocks laid out on my design bed. 

I think I made one more row than the pattern called for.