Evening in the Garden Quilts

Adventures in Fabric Art


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Sunday Stash Report: 5/5/19

I spent this week completing April’s clue for the Handy Dandy Scrap quilt. My scrappy sashing did not look good with my busy background and my scrappy blocks. I changed it to this scrappy gold, which works much better. Of course, I don’t count the fabric out until the quilt is finished, but this will help the numbers when I do finish it. So many scraps!

Also this week my mother in law gave me her sewing scraps. After sorting out the blends and corduroy, I was left with about 5.5 yards, mostly red and blue (went to the Quilts of Valor bin!) and two Christmas prints.

This week: + 5.5 yards, – 0 yards

This year: + 45 yards, – 47.25 yards

Net destashed added in 2019: 2.25 yards

Keep using your stash!


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April / May Goals

PicMonkey Collage April 2019I didn’t accomplish all of my goals last month, but I didn’t do too badly.

April Goals:

  1. Make blocks for Kat’s Covered in Love March/April block drive.  Yes!  Made, mailed, and received.
  2. Make a donation baby quilt from scraps.  Yes!  It’s Stellar!
  3. Quilt and bind the log cabin quilt.  Yes!  Here.
  4. Decide on a quilting plan for the Slow Quilt.  No, didn’t touch this.
  5.  Complete Clue 4 for the Handy Dandy Scap Quilt.  I only have half of this sewn together.

I’m also doing well on my goals of keeping current on my photos and my bookkeeping.  The Stash is moving slowly, but it is moving

 

I’m keeping May goals very modest.  There’s lots to be done in the yard and garden, and we’re taking two short trips.

May Goals:

  1. Finish Clue 4 for the Handy Dandy Scrap Quilt.
  2. Complete Clue 5/Reveal for the Handy Dandy Scrap Quilt.
  3. Make a baby quilt from fabric that’s been hanging around for too long.

 

Good luck with your goals!


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Sunday Stash Report: 4/21/19

2019-04-21 13.11.56New fabric and a finish this week!

Among the new fabric are these pretty ombres.  You’ll have to stay tuned to see what I do with them.

2019-04-21 13.06.40My finish is this log cabin quilt that I made from all those blocks I’ve been piecing from strings for months.  These are twelve-inch blocks, and the quilt measures 72″ x 96″.   It’s for donation.

2019-04-21 13.07.05I settled on the straight furrows set for these blocks.  I first tried to set them as a barn raising (concentric diamonds), but I had played fast and loose with the values in the blocks, so it was hard to see the pattern.  This worked better.

2019-04-21 13.08.08I really like this background fabric.

2019-04-21 13.07.17The quilting is done with Superior’s Bottom Line in white on the back, and aqua Nature’s Colors and white Sulky on the front.

 

This week: + 10 yards, – 13.5 yards

This year: + 39.5 yards, – 47.25 yards

Net destashed added in 2019:  7.75 yards

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Happy Easter, and good luck using your stash!


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Sunday Stash Report: 4/14/19

This week I made this baby quilt from scraps, and no new fabric came in.

This week: + 0 yards, – 3.5 yards

This year: + 29.5 yards, – 33.75 yards

Net destashed added in 2019: 4.25 yards

Yuri thinks you should be using YOUR stash!


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Stellar Baby Quilt Finish

2019-04-11 11.47.52Once I finally got all my ducks in a row, this baby quilt (36″ x 40″) was easy and quick to assemble and finish.

2019-04-11 11.48.20This is made from 90 4.5″ half square triangles units I had left over from a twin-sized flying geese quilt I made last year.  I didn’t know what I wanted to do with them until I saw this quilt made by Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  Then she made a tiny one, which motivated me to pull out my squares and start.  Mine is somewhere in the middle of these two.

2019-04-11 11.49.26I didn’t occur to me till I looked back at these posts and her tutorial that she paired her fabrics to create same-color diamonds.  I bet that would have been a lot easier to arrange correctly!  Oh, well, I like the color and movement in mine.

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This is headed off to Jack’s Basket to welcome a new baby.

I’m linking up to Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Confessions Of A Fabric Addict

 


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Design Wall Monday

Thank goodness for a design wall (or floor or back of couch or whatever you use)! This has been so hard to arrange correctly.

These are bonus HSTs left from a commissioned quilt I made last year. They’re 4.5″ square, and this will be a baby quilt.

I arranged these, and stepped back, then arranged them again, took a photo, arranged, then another, etc., etc. Finally Colleen spotted (all the way from Alberta, Canada!) that last error in the too left corner of this photo (three print triangles together).

I hope that’s the last! If you see another, please tell me quickly now! After its quilted, any errors will just be considered intentional design quirks!

Hope your design wall is giving you less trouble than mine.


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Sunday Stash Report: 4/7/19

I know it’s a bad picture, but these are my blocks for Kat’s Covered in Love drive for this month. The real colors are pink, orange, and blue. I encourage you to try this block. It isn’t hard, but you have think about it a little. Watch while trimming the second units that you don’t cut off any points. Ask me how I know…

These used about two yards of fabric.

This week: + 0 yards, – 2 yards

This year: + 29.5 yards, – 30.25 yards

Net destashed added in 2019: .75 yards

There! Back on the right side of the ledger!

Yuri says, Attack that stash!


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March / April Goals


March Goals:

  1. Complete Step 3 of the Handy Dandy Scrap Quilt.  Yes!
  2. Determine pattern and collect fabrics for my brother’s quilt.  No progress.  They’re thinking about it.
  3. Make last twelve log cabin blocks.  Yes!
  4. Assemble top for log cabin donation quilt.  Yes!

Bonus:  I made a commissioned baby quilt.

I’ve also done a lot on my yearly goal with tidying up my studio.
I didn’t succeed in March-Along as much as usual.  We traveled, and I caught a cold, and…you know, Life.  Ah, well.  Next year!



April Goals:

  1. Make blocks for Kat’s Covered in Love March/April block drive.
  2. Make a donation baby quilt from scraps.
  3. Quilt and bind the log cabin quilt.
  4. Decide on a quilting plan for the Slow Quilt.
  5. Complete Step 4 of the Handy Dandy Scrap Quilt.

Hope you’re achieving your goals!


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Sunday Stash Report: 3/24/19

No new fabric this week, and I used 4.25 yards to make this baby quilt.

This week: + 0 yards, – 4.25 yards

This year: + 29.5 yards, – 28.25 yards

Net destashed added in 2019: 1.25 yards

So, it’s coming along.

And there are signs of spring! Have fun sewing your stash!


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Sportsy Finish

I just finished this commissioned baby quilt. It’s the color of the Spring sky!

One thing that made it go more quickly was my new laser line! A friend showed me this post by Laura at Slice of Pi Quilts about adding an inexpensive laser to your machine. I ended up getting the exact one she did (use the link, it’s very confusing searching for these on Amazon). It has mixed reviews, but so far it’s working for me. The line is a little thick, so I’m lining up on the edge of it. I expect to mostly use it for half-square triangles, but it really made it easy to quilt these flying geese shapes in the background spaces. No marking!

It felt good to finish something!