Lots of yardage used this week! 7.5 yards for the green quilt and 5.5 yards on various Christmas gifts. I also bought 4 yards for gifts.
This week: +4 yards, -13 yards
YTD: +145 yards, -251.75 yards
Net stash used in 2013: 106.75
I hope your Christmas sewing is going well, and that you’re not stressing too much. It will get done. Or it won’t, and that will work out, too.
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
This week I finished the green and white quilt I’ve been working on for my DS, who attends Marshall University. It’s a nine-patch, so, really, it sewed up fairly quickly. I just got a bit tired of green.
Marshall has changed their green over the years. It’s currently a shade brighter than kelly (emerald?), but at a game one sees every shade, from hunter to this current bright green. So I just rummaged through my 3 1/2″ scraps and my green bin to find a variety of greens that don’t go together at all, but seem to get along in this quilt. These may be my last pieces of the chartreuse and teal Mirror Ball Dot. The white is mainly Basic Gray Grunge, with some white, snow, and the odd bit of Fairy Frost.
The backing came from Kelly of SewmuchfunWV on Etsy (and has a different green from any on the front!).
So that’s one of my December goals finished, and I’m making good headway on another (which I won’t be showing before Christmas!) See what everyone’s finishing over at Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.
Winter greetings! It’s been good weather here to stay in and sew. I used seven yards in the Chevrons quilt, and bought six yards for Christmas sewing, so still a little ahead for the week.
This week: +6 yards, -7 yards
YTD: +141 yards, -238.75 yards
Net stash used in 2013: 97.75
How are you doing on your destashing?
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
The snow made a nice backdrop for this quilt. I seemed to plod along on it, but it was worth it.
50″ x 66″
Cotton prints, solids, and batiks.
Warm and white batting
Superior Bottom Line, Art Studio, and New Brites threads.
I try to do something more or different every time with my feathers. These have a double spine and echoing. That really gives them some definition.
Today we’re remembering Nelson Mandela, and the difference one person can make in the world.
Snow is falling rapidly here. The schools are closed, so that makes this a Sew Day, doesn’t it? Time to work on Christmas gifts. What have you finished?
I’m linking up with Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.
I’m writing to you this morning from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I have been lame and not taken any new photos of this beautiful countryside, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.
I also didn’t photograph the new fabric I bought, but it was 4 yards of batik. You’ll agree that’s necessary, won’t you?
A few Christmas gifts were purchased down here, but this pin is just for me, by local artist Sharon M. Hollar. Yes, it’s my third pin of hers, but we’re not keeping track of jewelry here, are we?
This week: +4 yards, -0.5 yards
YTD: +135 yards, -231.75 yards
Net stash used in 2013: 96.75
Just wait till next week!
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
I hope Judy does this again for next year. I suppose I could make my own list, but somehow doing it with all of you makes it matter more, and I really am getting things done!
November Goals
1. Finish quilting my throw quilt from the Oh My Stars quiltalong.
2. Finish piecing and quilting OMS throw for my shop,
3. Finish piecing scrappy red, blue, gray cabin top (Quilt of Valor?)
4. Piece aqua and gray chevron throw quilt for shop.
5. Scrapitude Mystery Quilt, Step 3.
December Goals
1. Quilt for DS (Christmas)
2. Placemats (Christmas)
3. Pillowcases (Christmas)
I can’t add links to these because they’re not started yet. The quilt is designed and I’ve pulled some scraps for it. Hopefully you’ll see it soon.
How did you do with your goals? Crazy busy time, if you got anything done you’re doing well!
I’m linking up with Getting it Done at Patchwork Times.
Nothing in and nothing out this week. I’m quilting the turquoise and gray chevrons, so that will be in next week’s report, I hope.
This week: +0 yards, -0 yards
YTD: +131 yards, -231.25 yards
Net stash used in 2013: -100.25 yards
So what’s Yuri so interested in, if it’s not the stash? His boy is home from college, and was pulling in the driveway when I took this. Sure made his ears perk up.
May you all spend this week with people who make you happy.
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
I finished this quilt and finally found a pleasant day for photographing it.
It’s a big throw, 60″ x 82″. I blogged more about making it here.
I know fabric is fabric, and the last inch costs the same as the first, but somehow a quilt made entirely out of strings seems like a dividend.
I quilted it with diagonal lines using the walking foot. I used pink and green Superior “Living Colors” and “Nature’s Colors” threads.
I’d love to see what you’ve finished.
I’m linking up with Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.
This week I’ve been playing with HSTs in grays and aqua through turquoise. I’m trying to do something interesting with the color transition, but I don’t know if I have. I sewed half of them together wrong, so I had to rip apart my nice, pressed open, unstretched blocks and sew them back together, probably all stretched out.
So it’s coming. Slowly.
Also, I completed Step 3 in the Scrapitude Mystery Quilt at Quilting for the Rest of Us. Each of these steps is pretty quick, and we’re skipping December, so you could certainly catch up if you want to join us.
What are you working on?
I’m linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced.
Before I celebrate this week’s good destashing. I’d like to explain my poor communication here in Blogland. I am, by spells, quiet and content to lurk on the sidelines, but lately I’m blaming my electronics for not getting back to you. I know I’m lucky to own several hi tech devices, and I feel a little like the quilter who complained because she had no shoes until she met one who had no feet.
However, said devices have been in a state of mutiny lately. Last month my newer tablet decided that it didn’t want to be an Android tablet anymore, but just wanted to read Nook books. I really liked reading my Feedly feed on it (and commenting), and posting to this blog from it (and answering comments). I’ve been using my old tablet that sometimes turns on and sometimes doesn’t. And now, when I get to the end of one of your blog posts, and am all revved up to comment on it, it refuses to give me a keyboard. The cursor is there. Just nothing to type on. No matter what I do.
And by the time I’m on my laptop I’ve forgotten where and on what I was so interested in commenting. I have been visiting others when I join a linky party, but I’m doing a terrible job of getting back to my commenters. After a month or so of having trouble accessing my email on the laptop, I finally deleted my account and set it all up again. Then I was getting all my email, and thought I was sending some out, but turns out they were all stuck in my outbox. Yesterday, I looked at the error message again, and noticed I had spelled “server” without an “r”. I fixed that, and a month’s worth of emails and comment answers went spewing into cyberspace. It was probably confusing to get an answer to something you said to me weeks ago. Anyway, I have been reading and appreciating your posts, as well as your comments on mine. I just haven’t been able to tell you. I’ll keep trying.
Now, thanks to my Pink and Green Cabins quilt (which I will photograph when the wind and rain stop), I have reached 100 yards!
This week: +0 yards, -10.5 yards
YTD: +131 yards, -231.25 yards
Net stash used in 2013: -100.25 yards
We’re all excited here!
I’m linking up with Sunday Stash Report at Patchwork Times.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 