Stash Report #17 & A UFO Finish

I have returned from the AQS Festival in Paducah and so my stash report took a hit again. It was impossible to pass up the perfect fabric I was looking for to make a wedding quilt in "their colors" with  a pattern to boot.  And it should be a fast project too. There were great prices on name brand fabrics, lots of interesting tools and gadgets that asked to come home and play in my sewing room and of course many, amazing, unbelievable quilts. I was on stimulation overload by the 4th day and could not take in any more.  Everything started to blue together and I just wanted to get home and start sewing and playing with the things I bought.

I did manage to finish he hand stitching on my Winter Friendship Star quilt that I took to do in Paducah  (if I wasn't too pooped in the evenings).  Got it done!!  My first UFO for 2013.

Winter Friendship Star

E2E - Agave

Here the week's numbers.
Fabric Used this week:  0
Fabric Used YTD -  40.45 yds
Fabric Added this week:  12.5 yds
Fabric Added YTD -  71.95 yds
Net Added for 2013 -  +31.59 yds

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Stash Report - Week 16

Even though I missed two weeks of reporting my stash, the numbers have not changed much, unless you count an additional 10 yards added!  I went to a Shop Hop you know and helped stimulate the economy.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Here are my totals since the first of the month.
Fabric Added in April - 9.75 yds
Fabric Added YTD -  59.45 yds

Fabric Used in April -  .625 yds
Fabric Used YTD -   40.46 yds

Net added for 2013 - 18.99 yds

My only sewing this month has been to make and sew a binding on my Winter Friendship Stars quilt.  This was a UFO started last year and I finally got it quilted. I'm taking it along to Paducah to finish the hand stitching in the evenings so I'll have my first finished UFO.

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Stash Report & Enhancements - Week 10

After being gone at a retreat this last week, I finally have a little change in the right direction in my stash numbers.  I made 3 more pillowcases, pieced a backing on my Winter Friendship Stars UFO, made progress on 2 more UFOs, and made 20 more string blocks.  But I have to confess, I was not all good.  Since we were near Hickory Stick Quilt Shop in Hannibal, MO (one of my favorite shops), I had to do a little enhancing too.  I brought home 4 yards of light background batiks, which are so hard to find, and they were on sale.  

So my stash report for this week, looks like this.

Fabric Added -   4 yards

Fabric Used -   10.5 yards

Fabric Added YTD - 38.7 yds.

Fabric Used YTD -   16 yds.

Net for 2013 - added more than used  - 22.7 yds

Here's the pillowcases.  1 for QOV, 2 for St.Louis Children's Hospital to add to my stack.  I'll take a picture of the pieced backing when I get it quilted - hopefully before the end of 2013!!

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Design Wall Monday - Aug. 6, 2012

My design wall is looking pretty cluttered these days.  I keep putting things up there and then switching around to different projects and not finishing any of them!!  Here is a UFO that I will donate to QOV when it gets finished.  I made more blocks to enlarge the center. When it's put together like this, it has 4 red borders on the left and bottom sides automatically.  I'm trying to decide how to make it bigger and does it need to have equal border widths on top and bottom to make it balanced?

 Still trying to decide what else to add to it.






I started working on two UFO's back in March, and have managed to finish both tops. But trying to get the backs pieced with the leftover fabrics of those projects is taking a bit longer than expected.   I did complete one back and am working on the other one, Winter Friendship Stars.


I was able to make 7 blocks from the leftover scraps, plus I found a tan colored piece in my stash that measures 42" x 108". I'll have to put on my thinking cap and figure out how to piece all these parts into one whole backing that measures around 85" x 95".  I may need some more stray fabrics to get the size I need, but it will be using stash.  YES!











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Stash Report - Week 32

Didn't get around to much sewing this week, but I did make 7 blocks to add to a backing for my Winter Friendship Star quilt.  I'm using up all the leftover fabric like I did for the Blueberries and Cream quilt.  I'll show them tomorrow because they are on my design wall and I'm still working on getting the backing big enough for the top.  Here are my totals this week.
 
Fabric Added - 0
Fabric Used -  1/2 yd.
Fabric YTD Added - 20.25 yds
Fabric YTD Used -  50.83 yds
Net Busted for 2012 - 30.58 yds


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Design Wall Monday - July 16

Well here we are starting a new week.  They sure go fast, don't they?  My design wall is a little bit cleaner - notice I said a "little bit" not totally cleaned off!!  Those orphan blue and white blocks are still up there, but I finally got my left over half square triangle blocks put into some kind of order to fit on my Winter Friendship Stars.  Yipee!!  It's not perfect, but I used what I had (only have a few blocks left over)!

From this to this -------->



To this

Winter Friendship Stars

Now I need to get back to figuring out how to piece together those orphan blocks into a backing for the Blueberries and Cream top.  When those blocks get off my design wall, then it will be time to start a NEW project.  I'm tiring of my UFO's for the moment -- I have so many of them to do though!  Ugh.  Why do I let myself start so many new things and not get them finished in a timely manner.  I am going to turn over a new leaf -- maybe tomorrow.  Maybe not!  Anyway it's all fun and I've become a pretty good juggler in the process. (smile).

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Design Wall Monday - July 9, 2012

Well my design wall is so full of "stuff" I don't know where to begin.   First off is the pieced border that I'm creating with my leftover pieces to go around my Winter Friendship Stars top that I worked on at a retreat earlier this year. I think I've decided to go with this border, if I can get it to fit.

Then I decided I need to get a backing put together for my Blueberries and Cream top that I just finished.  So I pulled out my odd blocks box. Now I'm struggling with deciding if I should use up these old orphan blocks that have blue and white in them. Some were blocks given to me because someone else didn't know what to do with them, and some are leftover blocks that weren't quite the right colors for this quilt, but I couldn't refuse them plus some odds and ends that happen to be made with blues and white.  Maybe I should just forget this plan and pull some bigger pieces of blues that work with the colors on the front.  Decisions, decisions.  This takes more time than piecing the tops! ha.   There are several other ongoing projects on the wall that are out-of-site.  I really need to get some of these things finished up so I can start with a clean, fresh design wall.

Maybe I'll sleep on this a bit and let it percolate and see if anything else comes to mind.  If you have any ideas, let me hear them.  I'm always open to suggestions.

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