Wow, what a date. Happy Veterans Day to all.

I can’t show you my finish, so this is what I’m currently working on. I often piece my large log cabin blocks on the Shumway catalog- look at that artwork!

My two small finishes this week used a yard of fabric.

However, I did buy a half yard of new fabric, so just creeping along.

This week: + .5 yards, – 1.0 yards

This year: + 81.25 yards, – 123.50 yards

Net destashed added in 2018: 42.25 yards

Keep using your stash!

October was not a productive month for me in the quilting department.  The weather was really hot until it was very chilly and wet.  I spent the nicer days working outside and the rainy ones traveling around.  Sewing only happened once or twice a week.

October Goals:

1. Make a mat for a cart in my kitchen.  Nope.
2. Piece the cardinal panel Christmas quilt.  Yes!
3. Quilt and bind cardinal Christmas quilt.  No.  I’m almost finished with the quilting.
4. Make blocks for a donation quilt (probably log cabins).  No, not at all.

Bonus:  Made a little pillowcase for a travel pillow.

So, a lot more nos than yeses.  And I have no illusions that November will be better, so the new list is modest.

November Goals:

1. Finish cardinal Christmas quilt.
2. Secret Christmas project.
3. Tiny Christmas project.
4. Make blocks for a donation quilt (probably log cabins).

Are you sewing a lot for Christmas?  I don’t usually, but I thought I’d try a couple of things.  First the studio needs a clean-up.

Good luck on your goals.

My only finish this week was this little pillowcase for a travel size pillow. I continue to quilt the Cardinal quilt.

But I didn’t buy any new fabric!

This week: + 0 yards, – .5 yards

This year: + 80.75 yards, – 115.75 yards

Net destashed added in 2018: 35 yards

With the sudden cold weather, you’d think I’d have plenty of time for quilting, but it hasn’t worked that way. There’s still lots to do outside and inside. My garden hasn’t had a frost yet (most around me have), so I’m still picking as well as cleaning up. I made a small batch of tomato sauce today, and stuffed peppers are on the menu for this week. I’ll miss my marigolds when they freeze.

Keep using your stash!

I made a baby quilt this week and I managed not to buy any fabric.

This week: + 0 yards, – 3.75 yards

This year: + 80.75 yards, – 115.25 yards

Net destashed added in 2018: 34.5 yards

Chipping away at it! As I looked back at a previous baby girl quilt, I notice I said that I had lots of light pinks. Not anymore! (My taste seems to run more to the magentas and fuchsias…) So pinks might be in my next stash enhancement purchase.

Keep using your stash!

Another finish! And no new fabric!

Yuri and I took photos of this one today, so look for a post soon.

This week: + 0 yards, – 6.5 yards

This year: + 80.75 yards, – 111.5 yards

Net destashed added in 2018: 30.75 yards

This quilt is totally made from fabric I bought this summer, but, hey, it was logged into the stash and now it’s back out. I have a scrap quilt planned to dive a little deeper into the old stuff.

So use your stash, whether it’s old or new!

I did well on my September goals.

September Goals:

1. Quilt and bind Summer Stars on Fawn Lake.  Yes!  Here.  DH claimed it.
2. Piece top for Christmas quilt from truck and tractor panels.  Yes!
3. Quilt and bind Christmas quilt.  Yes!  Here.

Bonus:  Almost finished with another (blue) Christmas quilt!

October Goals:

1. Make a mat for a cart in my kitchen.
2. Piece the cardinal panel Christmas quilt.
3. Quilt and bind cardinal Christmas quilt.
4. Make blocks for a donation quilt (probably log cabins).

You may notice that I’m not doing donation blocks for Kat as I usually do.  Her Sept/Oct blocks are fun and easy, but I just don’t have the grown-up novelty scraps to make them.  I’ll jump back in later.  If you have the scraps, why don’t you make some?

Good luck to you on meeting your goals!

The holiday weekend wasn’t quite the Sew-in that I had imagined. Among other things, a wire in our well pump broke and we were without water for two days.

Of course, my sewing machine still worked, so I did some sewing, but not as much as I had hoped. This is Superior’s Art Studio thread in a nice purple.

So I continued it into yesterday and got some detail quilting done, and today I made this binding.

I hope you’re making lots of progress on your projects!

After I wrote my June goals it became clear that I wasn’t going to get anything done on a specific timetable.  The weather heated up, the garden came on, my son came and went and came back again, vacation…  I sort of gave up and went with the flow.  I sewed whatever caught my eye, usually baby quilts, and for weeks at a time I didn’t sew at all.

June Goals:

1. Add borders to Summer Stars at Fawn Lake.  Yes, finally.
2. Quilt and bind Summer Stars at Fawn Lake.  Nope.
3. Make Heart baby quilt.  (low volume)  Yes.  Here.
4. Make Anchor baby quilt.  (low volume)  Yes.  Here.

And three more baby quilts and a batch of donation blocks.  It was the whole summer.

September starts out much the same, but I’m ready to get some order back in my life so I have written a few modest goals.  We’ll see.

September Goals:

1. Quilt and bind Summer Stars at Fawn Lake.
2. Piece top for Christmas quilt from truck and tractor panels.
3. Quilt and bind Christmas quilt.

I do know I’m more productive when I have plans.  Summer Stars at Fawn Lake is spray basted and ready to begin quilting tomorrow.

Anyone like to join me in a Labor Day Sew-In?  I’m mostly on Twitter, but I’ll pop over to the Twilters facebook group from time to time.

I’ll leave you with a photo of my Fawn Lake backing fabric.

This week I’m working with another one of the panels. This one is flannel with various forest animals on it. I decided to frame them at an angle to add interest. This would be easier if they were squares, but they’re not. They finish at 15″ × 18″. (The block is symmetrical. My studio is too small for me to get directly in front of it.)

Alternating blocks will be framed in orange. This isn’t the final layout.

Hope you’re making progress this week!