Here are this week’s stars. The turquoise stripe and the neutrals came from my stash. The rest from the Craigslist scraps.
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Still Goofing Off
This mess can only mean one thing. I’m digging for fabrics for my Star-A-Day quilt — the one that’s apparently going to take at least 2 years to piece if I don’t get a move on it. I’m digging through the scraps I got off Craigslist for the prints and my stash for the neutrals. fortunately I’m finding some neutrals in the scraps as well.
How One Quilt Top Becomes Two
4 or 5 years ago I made this quilt top from Bonnie Hunter’s free pattern Star Struck. It measures 64″ x 80″. My intention was to eventually quilt it and bind it in either red or blue when I got that far. Last night I started packing up the quilt tops I’m sending to Vicki and I thought about this one. It’s too big for the purposes of Country School Quilters, but with the removal of 4 rows it’s about right — 48″ x 64″.
But now I have 32 “orphan blocks” and there’s room in the box for one more quilt top.
I dug through my neutral stash and made this ‘Boston Commons’ layout with the rest of the stars. – 3/4 of yard of fabric from my stash, no orphan blocks and two quilt tops for the quilters to give to the veteran’s hospital.
It’s a win all the way around.
UFO Count (Quilts in Progress + Tops to Be Quilted): 63 down from 69 January 1st.
Another Red, White & Blue Sampler
These are more sampler, shop hop and test blocks. I think I see a couple of left over blocks from a mystery quilt that I made incorrectly as well. Now to package up the last three tops for Vicki.
This brings my current UFO (Quilts in Progress + Tops to Be Quilted) count to 64 from January 1st’s count of 69.
What’s On My Design Wall
As I mentioned late Saturday night, I’ve gotten distracted. Vicki at Field Trips in Fiber suggested sending smaller quilts (48″ x 60″) to her quilt club would be a win-win. A veteran’s hospital would get a quilt and the UFO count could be reduced. I checked my spreadsheet and found one quilt top which was waiting on borders, and I found two partial block sets.
From the block sets and a couple of orphan blocks, I made the quilt top pictured above. The 2nd quilt top is on the design wall waiting for the sashing.
As soon as I get these in the mail, I’ll cross them off my “To Be Quilted” list and reduce the number of my UFOs (“Quilts In Progress” + “To Be Quilted”) by three. Then it will be back to the graduation quilt.
See what others are working on over at Patchwork Times.
Stash Report
A year or so ago I picked my sister up from work and was surprised at the number of thrift shops in the neighborhood. I made a note to visit them and yesterday, with it being such a gorgeous day, I wanted out of the house and decided it was time. Except, apparently they weren’t where I thought they were – which is a good thing for my stash report.
No fabric in and no countable fabric out. Perhaps next week. I’ve been working on the graduation quilt, ok, that won’t be done next week, but I pulled out a couple of sets of blocks and I’m in the process of setting them together.
Fabric Added Since Last Report 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 18.91 yards
Fabric Used Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 16.964 yards
INCREASE in Stash to Date: 1.946 yards
See how others are doing over at Patchwork Times.
Side Tracked
This is my Blue Ridge Beauty re-worked. Previously it was two rows longer and needed borders, additional blocks or both. But I found a group who is looking for smaller quilts tops – 48″ x 60″ – so I removed a couple of rows and it now measures 48″ x 60″. I’ll move this top to the “To Be Quilted” list so I can record the ‘finish’ and then cross it off, reducing the number of UFOs. The two rows of removed blocks are now in the orphan block box.
I then pulled out the Red, White & Blue sampler blocks and the Victory Quilt blocks and found a few blocks in the orphan block box. With a bit of framing and sashing, I’ll be able to get two more of these smaller quilt tops.
As for the graduation quilt, it’s been gathered up and is now sitting in a million pieces on the corner of my desk.
What’s on My Design Wall
I’m using EQ to help me shuffle the bits and pieces of the graduation quilt, so that hopefully, the colors will be dispersed throughout the quilt and not lumped together. The pieces are scattered on various surfaces in my sewing room.
Although I did not get a star made yesterday, I did get the two sections stitched together.
Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.
