Here it is.  My young quilting friend’s Spongebob quilt for her little cousin.  I think the cousin is 2.  She was so excited when she saw Spongebob. At 43″ square, the quilt is almost twice as long as she is tall so she’ll have it for a while.

During DWTS I sandwiched the Checkerboard Plaid quilt. I turned off Castle (which I enjoy) and put the quilt under the needle to get started.  I must be crazy. I’ve decided to stitch on either side of all the seams. That’s 10 seams a block and the quilt has 30 blocks — so that’s 50 lines vertically and 60 across the width.  When I took this picture had stitched  6 1/2 horizontal lines.

I wonder which will happen first — I finish the quilting or the new book I started listening to will finish.  I’m listening to A Proper Pursuit by Lynn Austin.  One CD = 16 horizontal lines of stitching, 1 + bobbins and cleaning the bobbin area out once.

The muslin and shirts are generating a lot of fuzz. (I’m using Superior’s Omni Thread in Light Tan on the top and in the bobbin – Warm and Natural batting).

There is nothing on the wall this morning.  This past week my young quilting friend spent most of her spring break with us and she finally got her quilt top finished and quilted.  It’s still in the binding stage – I ended up working for 2 hours late last night instead of getting the binding finished.

The middle picture is what my sister is working on.  This is her first traditional quilt and half of the blocks.  She spent a couple of hours over here Saturday cutting orange rectangles for the rest of the quilt.

Finally something I did (and I think the only thing I did all week).  I made the backing and cut the batting for Checkerboard Plaid.

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This letting others use my stash is working well for me.  Yesterday my sister was over cutting 2″ x 3 1/2″ rectangles from my orange collection.  She ended up cutting more than she needed.  I told her to keep the rest.  So, I’m counting that fabric as out, along with the blue and yellow she cut the week before.

Then my young quilting friend finished her Spongebob top. Most of the top fabric came from my stash.  The backing is from her stash — which fortunately still fits in a “shirt box”.

But their usage offset my purchases from yesterday.  Also helping is the fact that I finished the Stacked Posies quilt.

Well — this is interesting.  My numbers last week were “weird”.  It’s because I have a separate column for my recycled fabrics in.  Last week I must have only grabbed the purchased # for my report.  These number are correct.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 4.0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 66.11 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 8.687 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 16.778  yards

Net Used for the year -49.333 yards

Other stash reports can be seen over at Patchwork Times.

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The other day I stumbled upon a cool looking quilt or block  — not that I can remember where. But it lead me to Phillips Fiber Art and the Squedge 18° ruler.  I asked at my LQS if they carried it or if they could get it for me and it came in this week.  I made a run to pick it up and naturally fabric jumped into my arms.

The stripe was on the clearance rack at 70% off.  I bought two yard of it and then a yard each of the gold and blue — one yard I got free with my punch card.  Now to decide if I’m smart enough to figure this ruler out.

This week’s ingredient was a squash you normally don’t use.  That left out zucchini and yellow squash and if I thought about it pumpkin.  Although I only eat pumpkin in pies.  I did a recipe search and had it narrowed down to either butternut squash or spaghetti squash and suspected the butternut would go over better.

I picked Butternut Squash Fries from Tasty Kitchen. The flavor wasn’t bad, but they didn’t crisp up like I thought they would.  DH wasn’t a fan, but the 12 year old liked them.

To see what others did with their squash, check out the links over at Patchwork Times.  Now to figure out what to do with pinto beans.

I finished the backdrop earlier today.  Doesn’t look like much here, so I hung it on my quilt rack.

It’s so big, I can’t get back far enough to take a full picture of it.   I didn’t measure, but I’m guessing it ended up 156″ wide and  153″ long.  Even at an angle I couldn’t get a picture of the whole thing.

So why did I make this?  My brother asked me to. 🙂

Pretend that my Tonka Beetle is a Pinewood Derby Car.  There is a big regional(?) race that my nephew’s troop/pack is sponsoring and my brother is taking photos of all the boys with their cars.

Now here’s a show off picture.  The black block I’m pointing to is the block to the left of the seam.  There are a couple of bobbles, but you have to look close or enlarge the picture to see them.

Now, to figure out how to get it to my brother.

A few weeks ago my brother called me.  Would I be willing to make a backdrop for him? He didn’t need it until April 5th.

No problem — how hard can it be?  Cut the fabric in to three lengths and sew two seams.  Fold over the top and make a hanging pocket.  Maybe hem it.

13 yards of fabric cut into thirds.  Check

Matching the pattern?  The left selvage is not the same as the right selvage, so this is going to take me longer than I thought (don’t all our projects).  Good think I didn’t leave it until the last minute.

The Wildflower Serenade II 4-Patch Stacked Posies is a top. It measures 60 x 67. The current plan (it’s changed 3 or 4 times) is to bind it in the border fabric. For the backing, I’m considering the same windowpane plaid that I used on my DWR — I had the top tossed on the basket w/the DWR in it and couldn’t help but notice the colors are similar.  All I have to do now is figure out how to quilt it.  Any suggestions?

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I had high hopes for my stash report this week. But then I spent the day with my young quilting friend, sister and niece wandering in a couple of quilt shops on National Quilting Day.

There was fabric in:

And fabric out:

It was enough fabric to cancel out my fabric yardage purchases, but the fabric from my shirts are included in my yardage.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 3.75 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 6.667

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 6.16 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 8.091 yards

Net Used for the year -54.02 yards

Other stash reports can be seen over at Patchwork Times.