It wasn’t that I didn’t realize that yesterday was Sunday. I just couldn’t get these pictures off my phone. Sure enough, there they are today.
No, this is not one of my low-volume projects. I had made a leader-and-enders kit with old scraps (maybe twelve years old), and the blocks were ready to be sewn together and quilted. I backed it with the last of a very bright stripe from a line of road construction fabric. I used the last smidges of the stripe for the binding, but didn’t have enough, so I used my last strip of bar code stripe. It all used about three yards of fabric. I quilted it diagonally in both directions with yellow Sulky thread. I’ll be donating this to Project Linus.
This week: + 0 yards, – 3 yards
This year: + 55.50 yards, – 75.25 yards
Net destashed added in 2018: 19.75 yards
Hope you are well, and finding time to sew your stash.
I took advantage of the Australia Day Sew In yesterday to finish up the second of the elephant baby quilts. Then I washed them both up for photos.
The batting is Warm and Plush. It really is nice and plush-y, and fine for quilting. One drawback is that it shrinks more than the regular Warm battings. I put minimal quilting in the version of Pink Pinwheels that I made for Etsy, and it shrank two inches in each direction, which wasn’t a problem, since it was a little large anyway. I made an effort to add more quilting to these two (roughly every inch or two inches), and it shrank 1.5 inches in each direction (on a 36″ x 42″ quilt). It is nice and poofy, just be aware.
The binding is the last of a Riley Blake one inch charcoal stripe.
Thank you for all the encouragement. These are really fun fabrics, and the aqua ones have been in my stash for a while, so I was glad to use them. These are in my 
Last week I made two baby quilts that are very different from each other. While waiting for the sports fabric to arrive, I found this elephant fabric in my stash.
I rooted around and found the lavender and rick rack and lace fabrics, as well as the pink.
The backing fabric I pieced in is lavender with a large crocheted pattern.
And, in case it wasn’t sweet enough, I bound it with pink rainbow stripe.
The second quilt was for a shower for a friend’s first baby. My information about the nursery was “navy blue and sports”, so I worked from there. 
Mom is a champion softball player and Dad has played and coached lots of sports and is currently into golf, so all those made an appearance, along with the nice graphic prints. I decided on a Disappearing Four Patch design. First, I cut all the 5.5″ patched and sewed them into four-patches. I really liked the quilt just like that, but the squares were awfully large and didn’t really look very crafted or intentional. Still, the prints were very busy, so I decided to only “disappear” half of them. I really like the result.
And I love the sporty sock monkeys on the backing.
I quilted it with a variegated navy and white thread. I’m not sure if I really like it, but it’s okay. I think the thread would look better in a stipple.
I was also pleased by how the quilt matched many of the other items they received at the shower. I know it will be used.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 