This week I finished the Red and Gray Chevron baby quilt, using three yards, and managed not to buy anything. Creeping along.
This week: +0 yards, -3 yards
YTD: +95.25 yards, -142 yards
Net stash used 2014: -46.75 yards
Yesterday I picked about half a peck of pretty peppers for pickling.
Now I have eight pints of pickled peppers!
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Using lots of fabric this week in the Disappearing Hourglass quilt, but the only finish is the Elephant baby quilt. Two yards came in yesterday from Spoonflower for my commissioned baby quilt.
This week: +2 yards, -3 yards
YTD: +95.25 yards, -139 yards
Net stash used 2014: -42.75 yards
August was kind of the way I thought it would be, not too hot here, but not great for getting a lot done. In addition to the Goals, I made a baby quilt (Elephant) and part of another, mended for DS, made him some pillowcases from recycled sheets, and sewed a top for myself.
Can’t wait for September! Bring on the clean slate.
August Goals
1. Make 8-10+ box pouches for Christmas gifts. Who doesn’t need one of these? I made 6 of these. Here and here. Taking a break.
2. Make a Disappearing Hourglass quilt. Progress. I’ve made all 48 Hourglass blocks. Working this weekend to “Disappear” them into star blocks.
3. Continue studio organization (or organisation!). Refolded some of my fabric drawers, cut scraps, made saved sheets into pillowcases for DS.
September Goals
1. Finish Disappearing Hourglass quilt for QoV. (Assemble top, quilt, and bind.)
2. Clean out cabinet that backs against my sewing table. If I lose unused craft supplies, it will be a good,dark place to store quilts.
3. Make two more children’s boxy pouches.
4. Make a Christmas scrap quilt to sell or donate.
Hope you are making progress with your goals and your destashing. I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Stash Report
Not much sewing and not much to report. I didn’t buy any fabric, and I only used half a yard on one box pouch. My Stash Reduction is in a good place, tracking toward 100 yards for the year.
This week: +0 yards, -.5 yards
YTD: +73.75 yards, -134.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: -60.75 yards
How are you doing?
Goals
Didn’t July fly by? I knew it would, since I was traveling for part of it. For once, the temperatures were moderate, and I could have sewn, if I had been home and in the mood, but I didn’t even complete my modest goals.
July Goals
1. Make 5-7 box pouches for kids’ Christmas gifts. No. Made one, for practice, for myself. I have the zippers, interfacing, chose fabrics.
2. Organize stash. Yes, partially. I emptied, culled small pieces, and refolded fabric in the most-used drawers. Much better.
3. Clean, straighten sewing studio. Progress! Never totally done, but I put away fabric, etc., gave away a semi-working machine, caught up on mending, and did some major vacuuming and dusting.
I really did creep up on those pouches. For some reason, I just didn’t want to start one. Now I have one done (easy!), and I think I’ll be fine with the rest of them. I’m still adjusting size and trying a different interfacing, but nothing major. Any words of wisdom for me?
Philipa spotted a tutorial from Missouri Quilt Company called the Disappearing Hourglass, and I really like it. (See Pip’s gorgeous Disappearing Pinwheel quilt here.) It forms stars, so I think I’ll use red and blue fabrics for a Quilt of Valor. Who wants to do one with us?
Other than that, I know that my tomatoes, etc., will probably start to ripen all at once and need my attention, and we are trying to organize for getting DS back to college in a couple weeks, so I’m going to be kind about my goals for August.
August Goals
1. Make 8-10+ box pouches for Christmas gifts. Who doesn’t need one of these?
2. Make a Disappearing Hourglass quilt.
3. Continue studio organization (or organisation!).
Oh, and look for a Cucumber Giveaway here soon if my vines don’t slow down!
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Stash:
A great week of finishes! I finished Beach Quilt VI, and then, this weekend, finished both the Rail Fence quilts for the Scrap Basket Quilt Along. (I hope to post on those tomorrow.) Those last two emptied a shallow drawer in my wire baskets that had held all my cowboy and plaid fabric. Whoot! Progress! In good shape to use up 100 yards this year.
This week: +0 yards, -22.5 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -133 yards
Net stash used 2014: –68.25 yards
Monthly Goals:
June Goals
1. Make blocks for Slow Quilt Yes! And completed the top! It’s marinating while I consider batting and quilting.
2. Donate baby quilts to Project Linus Yes! Regular contact seems to have quit; forced to go to new-to-me quilt shop and dine out afterward, but it’s done!
3. Commit to a small pouch/bag project and gather supplies. Sort of . I’ve decided on box pouches for the kids. Need to order zippers.
4. Make something with scraps just for fun. TWO Rail Fence quilts for Amanda Jean’s Scrap Basket Quilt Along!
July Goals
1. Make 5-7 box pouches for kids’ Christmas gifts.
2. Organize stash.
3. Clean straighten sewing studio.
July goals are not ambitious, are they? But it’s summer in this part of the world, my studio heats up by early afternoon, and we’ll be gone almost a week in July. I’ll be happy to accomplish these.
2014 Goals:
I’m very pleased with my progress on these. I’ve read the books; I’ve been a little experimental with quilting; I tried a new block and used it to make a well-planned, slowly executed top ( it incorporates bold sashing, but not as much as I meant to, so I may do more with that); I’m edging my way into the bag/pouch sewing. Still need to work on the curved piecing and finish up the other projects. A good place to be in mid-year.
Beautiful beet mix from the garden.
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Happy Father’s Day! I know I have some male readers. Why don’t some of you comment and tell how you spent your day?
The Stash
Nothing out this week, but nothing in either! I made a top and a back this week from the cowboy fabrics, and have all the blocks ready for a plaid top. I considered quilting the one, just to have a finish, but I am way ahead on the Scrap Basket Quilt Along, and thought I would wait to see if Amanda Jean has any interesting ideas on how to quilt these Rail Fences.
This week: +0 yards, -0 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -110.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: -45.75 yards
The Garden
Yesterday I was thinking about preserving all the cilantro that has loved our cool spring. I can actually keep a little growing most of the year, between the garden and the greenhouse, but somehow not when I really want it. I know it can be frozen or frozen as “pesto”, but that requires blanching (easy, but I only had one armfull; didn’t seem worth heating up the water). Instead, I made Cilantro Salt using these directions.
This was super easy, and reduced it to a small jar for the fridge. I also made a smaller jar using dill. It did seem very salty, but I don’t cook with a lot of salt, so maybe it’s just me. I reduced the amount of salt with the dill, so we’ll see which I like better.
Hope you have a great day. I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
The center of the Slow Quilt came together last night, though it still needs borders. It will be a while till this is finished and counts off the stash.
So, nothing in and nothing out this week, but that’s okay.
This week: +0 yards, -0 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -110.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: –45.75 yards
In other news, the garden is growing well, and we have a bumper crop of cats.
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Stash:
A new month! Happy June to everyone. A quilt (Beach Quilt V) was finished this week, and no new fabric came in. Doing well on the stash busting.
This week: +0 yards, -7.5 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -110.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: -45.75 yards
Goals:
May Goals
1. Finish bright floral quilt. Yes!
2. Make blocks for Slow Quilt. Um, made one.
3. Donate older baby quilts to Project Linus. I put them in a bag… I made a new one from scraps….
4. Commit to a small pouch/bag project and gather supplies. Nothing. Never though about it.
June Goals
1. Make blocks for Slow Quilt.
2. Donate baby quilts to Project Linus.
3. Commit to a small pouch/bag project and gather supplies.
4. Make something with scraps just for fun.
Well, that was easy. But it’s summer, and I can’t make myself get too serious about this stuff. July and August may look the same!
Hope you are making some kind of progress! I’m linking up to Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Happy Sunday, and happy Memorial Day Weekend! The weather here is gorgeous. Hope you’re all getting to spend time as you want, sewing or with family. Some of us are sewing along on Twitter, #mdsi.
This week: +0 yards, -2.5 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -103 yards
Net stash used 2014: -38.25 yards
The yardage used was for this baby quilt I made for Project Linus from scraps. I have several quilts set aside to give them, and I thought I’d add one or two before I called my connection. I was also looking for some non-fiddly chain piecing to do, and this filled the bill, at least for the four patch part of the Disappearing Four Patches.
I used a different tutorial from last time. I found this one from Missouri Star Quilt Co. I don’t know if it comes out exactly the same as rotating all the center bars, but it is easy, and most of the seam allowances were turned the right way to make assembly easier.
The backing is the cloud and planet fabric. It’s quilted all over with stars, loops, and clouds, using one of Superior’s newish Fantastico variegated threads.
I’m linking up to Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Happy Mother’s Day, everyone! This photo has nothing to do with the holiday. This is Anni Slywalker. She never makes it into the blog because she’s so hard to photograph and she doesn’t hang out in the studio, but I caught her on this quilt the other day.
Good news on the destashing efforts. I finished the Floral quilt, which used 8 yards, and nothing came in.
This week: +0 yards, -8 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -101.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: -35.75 yards
So, I’ve used a hundred yards of fabric so far this year, and I’m more than a third of the way to my goal of destashing a hundred yards this year. Looking good!
I hope you’re spending today doing exactly what you would like, quilty or not.
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Hello! Let me first confess that I did not take this picture. I tried all morning, but my Baltimore Orioles would not cooperate. Still, they are fantastically colorful and entertaining at my feeder. I have seen up to six at a time, and the males are so bright!
Stash:
I bought three yards of solids on Saturday, but considering that I was actually standing in Fabric Shack, I think that shows amazing will power. We stopped in Waynesville, OH on the way to the Reds ball game to celebrate my husband’s 60th birthday. Yesterday was a Derby Party. Therefore, nothing was finished this week.
This week: +3 yards, -0 yards
YTD: +64.75 yards, -93.5 yards
Net stash used 2014: -27.75 yards
April Goals
1. Quilt gray and yellow quilt. Finished. See 1 and 2 here.
2. Make commissioned baby quilt in navy.
3. Make a floral quilt. No, I didn’t. I made a beach quilt instead.
4. Design a block for my Slow Quilt. I’m collecting the fabrics. Done.
Here’s the block I’m using in the Slow Quilt. It’s a version of Storm at Sea. Saturday’s purchase was the last of the fabric (I think).
May Goals
1. Finish bright floral quilt.
2. Make blocks for Slow Quilt.
3. Donate older baby quilts to Project Linus.
4. Commit to a small pouch/bag project and gather supplies.
These are not ambitious goals, I know, but they reflect the fact that it is May. I will be away some, and working on the yard and garden, so I’ll be lucky to accomplish these.
Does anyone know of a site that has taken up this Getting It Done/ Monthly Goals project? If there’s not, would any of you be interested in linking here? Please let me know.
I hope you’re all progressing with your Stash and quilting goals. I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 