This week I sewed and didn’t buy, so that’s good news for stash reduction. The Cool Colored twin quilt took 9.5 yards.
This week: + 0 yards, – 9.5 yards
This year: +38.5 yards, -43.5 yards
Net destashed added in 2016: 5 yards
February Goals
Complete the second clue for Charlotte’sScrappy Stars Around the Corner. Yes!Continue Gyleen’sBricks, Cobblestones, and Pebblesmystery quilt. Yes!- Unpack fabric lockers and get help moving them over a foot. This will help with locker and floor access and make it easier to vacuum. Well, no. I did unload the lockers and attempt to move them, but they’re heavy and on carpet, so I gave up. Instead, I moved a lamp in the way, and the roll of batting. I also tidied up my cords, and changed the sewing machine so it wasn’t plugged into the same outlet as my iron (bad for the computer). And I vacuumed and dusted.
Find a new home for the little project bins that live under the cutting table. Yes! There is clear floor space there.Make donation blocks for Kat’s February Challenge.Yes!Make a quilt for my Etsy shop. Yes, I made three!
Bonus: I made a blue and green twin quilt to keep at home.
March Goals
- Complete the third clue for Charlotte’s Scrappy Stars Around the Corner.
- Make a back and donate it with the top from Gyleen’s Bricks, Cobblestones, and Pebbles mystery quilt.
- Clear the area behind the door in my studio.
- Make donation blocks for Kat’s March Drive.
- Make some summer-themed wall hangings.
- Participate in Darla’s March-A-Long, where we sew a little every day.
So February was a good month for goals, but it usually is. As we creep toward spring, outside work and other activities call, and I sew a little less. Luckily, Darla has her March-A-Long this month to encourage us to sew/prep for at least a few minutes every day, and that helps keep me going. Hope you join in, too.
Good luck with your goals! I’m linking up to Judy’s report at Patchwork Times.
Yuri and I finished up this rail fence quilt yesterday. Here he is admiring some of our wavy quilting lines.
And this is what the whole thing looks like. It’s 63″ x 81″, and the rail blocks are nine inches square.
It’s all from stash, and the colors were completely inspired by this backing fabric I had on hand.
I sort of quilted this backwards. Visually, I wanted minimal quilting, so I started out using the walking foot for a serpentine stitch in variegated thread down each bar of fabric. Then I decided that it needed more quilting to withstand use on a bed, so I went back and quilted in all the ditches with invisible thread. It made it a little wonky, but the result is fine. A myriad of troubles disappear when a quilt is washed!
This quilt will stay with me. I was checking out bedding in case some of DS’s friends came home with him, and discovered that I didn’t have a spare twin quilt. Now I do.
This week I put this together this little string quilt. Nope, still can’t tell any difference in my string baskets, but it did use a big pile of them.
I quilted it with five rows of feathers in white Bottom Line.
The back is the last of this alphabet print.
The bright sunshine I’m enjoying today played havoc with taking good photos of this understated little quilt (I was just glad it wasn’t sleeting as it was yesterday). I hope you can see how delicately feminine this baby quilt is.
I ordered the floral last month, probably for a backing, but they only had half a yard left when they filled my order. The flowers are a blue-gray, with aqua centers. I paired it with this beautiful mocha colored Grunge that appears to be brushed with aqua paint. On the top I added a linen colored solid.
The back is more of the Grunge, and an aqua and mocha print. I kept the quilting pretty simple, and I love the way it turned out. I used a variegated gray Rainbows thread from Superior on the top, and Bottom Line on the bottom.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 