Technically, Yuri and I didn’t finish this quilt until today, but I’m counting it on this Stash anyway. This will be the last report I’ll write for a while, because of my knee surgery, so I want to include this.
This is a leaders and enders quilt that I made blocks for during the last year. It’s very simple, two colors, because that’s about all I can handle for l and e. I need to think about the quilt I’m doing, so this has to be fool-proof. I have a lot of small scraps, but the main reason I do these is to eliminate starting and stopping threads in my regular piecing. This cleans things up a lot.
It was fun to revisit some of the fabrics in here. There are bits of peacock fabric from the 2008 Hoffman Challenge, and some from my nephew’s ocean-themed graduation quilt.
The quilting started with stitching in the ditch next to all the sashing using blue Bottom Line, so it’s nearly invisible. Then I used a gold and blue variegated So Fine (Superior) 40 wt. thread for all the other quilting. I used orange peel quilting on half the blocks, and free-hand spirals in the alternate blocks. The border has a series of wavy lines. I started that with the walking foot, but quickly switched back to free-motion quilting because it was much easier than turning the quilt for the walking foot, and, with the echo foot, seemed just as accurate.
This quilt is 62″ x 84″ (or it was before washing!). It used about 9.25 yards of fabric.
This week: + 0 yards, – 9.25 yards
This year: + 77.25 yards, – 123.75 yards
Net destashed in 2016: 46.50 yards
We’re linking up to the Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
September is suddenly here, so it’s time to check the goals.
Anyway, Aunt Maggie is finally in her spot, and that corner behind the door has been cleaned up!
My only finish this week was 
A few months back the Twilters, of Twitter and Facebook fame, exchanged blocks in honor of our friend Frances O’Roark Dowell’s new novel, 
There was a question recently about whether we quilt in the ditch between patches. It depends, but I certainly did on this one! I used my walking foot and worked my way across both diagonals, then vertically and horizontally until all the “birds” were outlined. I also created some “faux birds” where I wanted them in some of the white areas.
I bound this with strips left from the blocks I sent and some of the left over binding from the 
This week I didn’t buy any fabric, and I did use a little. The fall wall hangings to0k a yard and a half, and I used a quarter yard for tying up the peppers in the garden.
Today I finished the little Star Wars quilt I worked on this week. It evolved a lot since my first concept, but I like the way it turned out. And I have a lot of left over fabric that I cut along the way, so there will be a sequel. I wrote a 
The back is a blue geometric, a band of of orange Fairy Frost, and a section of gray moonscape.
I quilted it in a six” grid with gray Bottom Line. Then I used NiteLite Extra Glow thread (Superior) to quilt diagonal lines in the direction of the green streaks in the fabric. I did both a long straight stitch, and #44, a “hand quilting” stitch. This would take some tweaking to really look like hand quilting, but the forward and back stitching put down lots of thread to enhance the glowing effect. I used this is a quilt I made my son long ago, so I know it last through years of use and washing.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 