Not much time was spent in the sewing room this week; but I did finish one pillowcase. Only one yard can be counted as used since last reporting.
This week has flown by so quickly. It started Monday with a Quilts of Valor sewing day, followed by a sew day the next day with one of my quilting groups. We bring handwork to work on and I took the red quilt to continue sewing on the reversible binding. It's almost done. I'll post pictures when I get it finished. I did take some pictures for a tutorial as I did it, but they are on my cell phone, and I haven't figured out how to get them onto my blog yet. It wants to download all 850 photos from my phone and I don't want them all!! Just the last few.
Thursday found me on a road trip with two friends to A to Z Quilt Shop in Quincy,Illinois. This is a fairly new shop and it offers large variety of designers and styles of fabric. You can find everything from batiks to homespun, civil war, flannels, Thimbleberries, modern solids, stripes and the popular zigzag, minky, wools and more. They are enlarging the classroom area and it has great lighting with lots of beautiful samples displayed everywhere. The shop owner is also a long arm quilter too. Be sure and check it out if you are in that area. It very close to Hannibal, MO too.
Our next stop was The Dutchman's Store. in Cantril, Iowa. About an hour from the quilt shop. This was so much fun. It has an old time feel of a general store and is run by Mennonites. There were bolts and bolts of fabrics shelved by colors, or themes and types of materials. They also carry wide backs, batting by the roll, quilting notions and books, and almost anything you can imagine -- in one section of a huge building. But fabric is not the only thing of interest in this quaint store. You can do your weekly shopping for groceries, shoes and clothes for the whole family, hardware supplies, bulk spices and dry goods and great meats and cheeses and all kinds of other foods, free coffee while you shop and fifty cent ice cream cones. I had a great time browsing and loading my cart as I strolled the aisles. Although tempted, I held steady to my goal of not adding to my stash quite yet and did not put any fabric into my shopping cart. It was so tempting though because of the good prices.
Here's the fabric report:
Fabric Added - 0
Hope you are making progress on using your stash this week. Drop on by Judy's to see what everyone else did this week.
Here's the fabric report:
Fabric Added - 0
Fabric Used - 1 yd
Fabric Added YTD - 0
Fabric Used YTD - 10 yds
Net used in 2015 - 10 yds
Hope you are making progress on using your stash this week. Drop on by Judy's to see what everyone else did this week.
Congrats on holding yourself back! Great job! ~Melanie
ReplyDeleteHard not to purchase fabric especially when you can actually touch and feel it. You should be very proud of yourself!
ReplyDeleteWay to resist temptation. You've done well on the stash out too.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a few neat road trips - the store in Iowa sounds really interesting.
ReplyDeleteWow! Really? You visited TWO great shops and didn't buy anything? You are definitely my hero! I went to three shops last week and added quite a bit to my stash LOL!!! I want to be like you someday when I grow up :)
ReplyDeleteWow! You did a great job of resisting temptation. Don't know if I could have resisted. Sounds like your outing was a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteHugs