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What I’m Working on Wednesday – 10/1/25

October 1, 2025 4:46 pm ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

It’s Wednesday and the 1st of the month so this will be a 2 for 1 post – What I’m Working On and the Stash Report.

First up binding.  On the machine is Sheryl. The binding is attached to 2 sides.  Waiting in the wings are Monterrey Medallions and Cascades.  The binding for the last two are sewn together and need pressing.

I’m also trying to decide what fabric to use in the Twirling Leaves class I’m taking later this month through the Gulf States Quilt Association. I plan to pull from my stash and am leaning towards batiks.  The question is a light background or a dark background.

I’m leaning towards the purple.

add 37.615

used 33.33

 

The Stash Report

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 37.615 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  232.057 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 33.33 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 180.469 yards

Net Fabric Stash: 51.588 yards

I suppose I should also report on my September goals and list my October goals, but I’ll save that for another post.

Posted in: binding, Cascade, designwall, Gulf States Quilt Association, Monterry Medallion, Sheryl, Stash, Stash Busting Report, Twirling Leaves

What I’m Working on Wednesday – 9/10/25

September 10, 2025 8:33 am ⋅ 1 Comment ⋅

Cascades is a top!

It always amazes me how frequently I delay getting borders on a quilt, even when it is just “slab o’borders”.  This quilt is 3rd in line to be quilted.  I need to finish the quilt on the frame, then quilt my SILs Vintage Christmas Sampler, then I’ll be able to quilt this one.  My deadline for this quilt is November 16th, so who knows what else may get worked in before then.

Saturday a new quilt shop opened in town called Delta Threadz. It’s their second location, the first is in Cleveland, Mississippi. I missed the grand opening Saturday, but ran over there yesterday for a few minutes. They are a Bernina Dealer, they don’t have a whole lot of fabric, but what they had was cute. My plan was to buy something, but I was given the hard sell on a sewing machine when I asked about repairing the little Bernette I picked up at an estate sale I left without buying anything.  Later in the afternoon I ran over to Cotton Blossom which is about 1/2 mile further in the other direction from my house, simply because it’s been a while since I’ve been in there.

They had the new Tilda Christmas line by the front of the store.  I love the soft colors and some of the fabrics could be used year round  The price however, well, lets just say I won’t be buying any of that fabric anytime soon.  I did find some red, white, and blue fabrics which spoke to me and picked up some half yard cuts — not that I need these at the moment.

Posted in: Cascade, designwall, Stash

Cacophony is a Top

June 6, 2025 10:33 am ⋅

After pulling a a dozen fabrics to audition for the borders, I ultimately went with my first choice that I picked when I first started working on the top.  It’s a vintage Robert Kaufman print of musical instruments.  It currently measures 73″ x 92″, so it will fit beautifully on a twin bed with a 15″ drop on 3 sides of the bed after quilting and washing.

I have a bin of backings and leftover backing pieces.  Since this is a stash quilt, I thought I would have to piece a backing together, but I found this backing fabric which is 82″ x 108″ — the exact size I need – in the bin without a quilt name attached to it.  Guess what I’m using.

This weekend is the Mississippi Quilt Association Summer Gathering – if I get home early enough, I’ll press the backing and get the quilt loaded so I can quilt it over the weekend.

 

Posted in: Cacophony, Orphan Blocks, Stash

Stash Busting Report – April 11, 2025

April 11, 2025 8:44 am ⋅

Wow, it’s been nearly 7 weeks since my last stash busting report – prior to my trip to AQS Branson!  I brought home these batiks to make the Cascade quilt larger.  I’ve since discovered I do not have to, so I may just make 2 quilts.

I also picked up this panel.  Then there was the 3 yards of fabric I purchased to make the GSQA lotto blocks — the ones which only took 1/4 to make all three.  What can I say — I bought 1/2 yard of 6 different fabrics.

I have started another quilt completely from my stash, but between the guild meeting, trips to the hardware store and a 7 hour power outage yesterday, not a whole lot of quilting was done this week.  On the other hand, I did pull fabric and precuts from my stash to use for prizes at the guild. At the last minute I pulled 4 more charm packs to add to the prize bucket, so they are not pictured.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 11.5 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  54.5 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 25.291 yards – “used” in this instance is removed from the stash
Fabric Used to Date: 36.116 yards

Net Fabric Stash: 18.384 yards

 

Posted in: Stash

Stash Enhancing

September 11, 2023 9:38 am ⋅

Saturday morning I had the opportunity to add to my stash from the estate of a local quilter. There was so much to chose from and as I understand it by the time I got there there was a ton of stuff which had already been hauled out. There was still plenty left, but I didn’t know where I would put it and I just didn’t know what I’d make.

From the haul, I’ve pulled these fabrics.  That flower is 8″ wide, so it makes it challenging.  But I think I’ve found the pattern.

Garden Lattice.  I’m planning on using the green fabric in place of the yellow, the peachy orange in place of the blue and the stripe in the cornerstones and for binding.  I’ll probably use the floral for the backing as well, as I have at least 10 yards of the fabric.

When I got home I finally finished the binding on Halloween Whimsy.

This is a Riley Blake kit that I purchased from The Quilted Cow last fall. It took no time at all to make.  It’s quilted in a spiderweb pattern using Strawberry Blond Glide thread.

Posted in: Garden Lattice, Halloween Whimsy, Stash

Chilhowie is Ready to Quilt

March 18, 2023 12:09 pm ⋅

I’m ready to load Chilhowie on the longarm. I just need to figure out how I’m going to quilt it. It is one row longer than Bonnie’s quilt as I want to put it on a bed. After attaching the last border, I put away all of the fabric processing the bits and pieces into my Scrap Users System. The only fabric left out is yardage for the binding and a matching pillowcase.

 

My leader/ender project this year is Rivanna. Started in August, I’m about 2/5 of from finishing all of the HST I need.

 

Meanwhile, last weekend I decided to go on a road trip to Monroe, Louisiana.  I went specifically to look at the Husqvarna sewing machines. But of course that was in a quilt shop, so a few FQ came home with me.  Eight of those pictured above are from Material Things. The other 8 are from Quilt ‘n Stitch in West Monroe.

Some yardage also came home with me.

Now off to load Chilhowie.

Posted in: Chilhowie, Rivanna, Stash

July 2022 Road Trip Fabric

October 26, 2022 2:05 pm ⋅

While in Kansas City, my SIL and I did a quilt shop hop of our own making.  I knew I wanted to go to Hunters Quilt Mart in Centerview, Missouri since the batiks were on sale. I am making Bonnie Hunter’s Rivanna in batiks on black.  I picked up 18 of the batiks at Hunters and more at other shops during the week.  Since I’ve been home I’ve brought my total count up to 30.

The pictures are sorted by ‘quilt’, not shops and are not in the order I visited the shops.  The Magnolia, gold, cream and gold & green piece I found at Hunters. I think the dark green, almost black I found at Stitch On in Lawrence, Kansas and the bottom green on green was in the bucket I won at the Guild meeting! It’s going to be the backing.  As I look at this picture I think I have an extra fabric.

The stripe in the middle I found at Missouri Star, which is where I picked up the pattern Quartered Stripes. The purple fabric I bought on a whim while I was at Hunter’s. Later that week we called and ordered the rest of the bolt as we discovered it works so well with several fabrics we picked up.

The final stack of fabric is from a variety of shops and are not for specific projects.  The solids were on the clearance rack at Hunters. the FQs I bought at Mes Amis in New Orleans. The black on white I found at KC Maker Studio.

Tuesday we stopped in at Show-Me-Quilting in Raytown, MO specifically to pick up a couple of things I ordered on line — the book and blue fabric in the left picture. I picked up some cork to use in bag making and found fabric on clearance for the quilt, binding and backing. Of course now that I look at the stripe, I’m not sure it will work well for the Quarter Stripes quilt.

Purchased at Mes Amis, the tiger stripe will be the backing to the purple, yellow & white Athena I’m making. The green backing I picked up at Missouri Star to make tablecloths. I’m not sure where I found the red buttons. I purchased it for the centers of a log cabin quilt, but then opted for another fabric.

I love these waterlilies and dragonflies.  The prints I picked up at Missouri Star, there’s that purple again from Hunters. I’m not sure where I picked up the pink/lavender.

At Prairie Point Quilt and Fabric Shop in Lenexa, Kansas I picked up fabric to make a blouse and the pattern for a bag. The bag fabric came from KC Maker Studio off the clearance rack.

Notions from Mes Amis, KC Maker Studio and Missouri Star, thread from Hunter’s Quilt Mark, and the barn wood star from the grocery store in Hamilton, Missouri.

I’m happy to report that the tablecloths are made.

And I’ve started on Rivanna.  I’m using it as my leader/ender project.  Lots of HST, so I’m working on them one color at a time. 3 down and 27 to go.

Posted in: Athena, Butterscotch, Leaders & Enders, Rivanna, Road Trip, Stash

Last Week’s Haul

May 22, 2022 10:57 am ⋅

For a number of years I was able to curb my purchases, limiting them only to the essentials — absolutely only what was necessary to complete my project.  However, over the past 30 days I’ve gotten away from that.  This was last week’s haul.  Admittedly the 6 yards of batik was a steal – I think I paid $5 at the guild auction.

I am looking for peach fabrics for a quilt I’ve been asked to make, but that doesn’t explain the brown leaves or the other 2 orange fabrics above it.  In my defense, they were all on sale, a couple 25% off that price since I took the end of the bolt.

But I went to Hobby Lobby to get 1/2 yard of white fabric for quilt labels. That was my downfall.  I love the floral print. I’ve looked at it several times and walked away.  But it didn’t happen this time.  I bought it, picked the darker purple and the lighter green to go with it.  But I struggle with 3 fabric quilts, so another green, the lavender and orange dot were purchased.  I also picked up a few fun neutrals.  Aren’t those “legal”?

My justification is that I’m getting projects done. Never mind that I purchased fabric the week before and the week I went to Kansas City.

A friend asked me if I could rebind the quilt his mother made for him in 1989.  I said sure, and the last time he came through town he left it for me. It’s done is all dusty blues, many lighter than these white hearts on blue.   Interesting, the binding is done as a facing. I opted for a traditional binding and found that Winterwool in this light blue was perfect.  I simply bound over the edges, leaving his mother’s work in place. As a result, a bit the original binding is showing.

The next quilt finished is this 2008 retreat block swap quilt. The blocks are called Glenwood Avenue, although I have no idea where we got the pattern.  Since I used the Dancing Dragonflies E2E design, I’m calling it Dragonflies Dancing Over Glenwood Avenue.  I’ll take more pictures later.

As soon as I hit post, I’ll move Shimmer to the dryer then start the binding on Strip Twist.

Posted in: 2008 Retreat Block Swap, binding, Stash, Strip Twist

What’s Next

March 28, 2021 11:08 am ⋅

After a busy week in the sewing room I splurged and purchased a yard each of the Muppets and Kermit. I have no idea what I’m going to do with either print.

I briefly pulled my MQA BOM Blocks out, thinking it would be another quick finish.  Ha! The multi-colored stripe on the left was my color inspiration.  I’ve used it a couple of times, with plans for it to be the border, but in the end have gone with something else.  So I dug deep into my yardage stash looking for possible options.  I think I’m going with #5 — keep looking.

Since I was digging through the yardage, I pulled it all out and sorted it.  Stripes, floral, tone on tone (2 boxes!), paisley/leaf, cat/novelty, neutral/batik, everything else.  I’m not sure I’m going to like this, but what I had wasn’t really working.  I slid note cards both the yardage boxes and the “FQ” boxes so I know where to begin looking.  The “FQ” boxes are roughly sorted by color.   Neutral/Tan, Pink/Red, Orange/Yellow/Green, Green/Indigo/Blue, Blue/Violet,  Brown/Grey/Black, Halloween/Cat/Multi, 30’s, KTQ.  My Christmas box has both yardage and “FQ”.  There are also 2 boxes of vintage, a box of flannel, and a box of denim.  The final box is kits. The larger bits of music fabric are stored in the former thread drawers.

Up top there is a box of UFO, Misc Sewing Stuff, upholstery samples, ties (washed), and batting scraps.  Not show below the shelf are smaller batting scraps, clothes to be deconstructed and …

A box of “fabric” vs. “scraps”.  There’s the music yardage I was looking for to use on the back of the crazy quilt. It’s just as well. I think the other music fabric worked better with the black and red on the front of the quilt.

Also in this box are the red and white FQ I collected for the Winter Wonderland quilt I’m working on, some Halloween fabric, a couple pieces of yardage and a few bits and pieces.  Clearly I need to sew faster.

With all of the fabric shuffling around my sewing room is looking halfway decent.

I’ve even exposed more of the design wall.  That’s not to say there is still not more to do, but the room is in pretty good shape.  I have a pile of batting scraps I want to deal with, then I need to spend some time in the rest of the house.

Posted in: cleaning, Stash

It’s Not My Fault!

May 14, 2019 6:00 am ⋅

I received an email from JoAnn Fabrics. Yes, I saw it said 70% off, but I deleted the email off my computer – even restarted the email program so it wasn’t in my trash folder. I deleted the email off my phone. Then my sister-in-law called me. She wanted to know if she should buy some batting with her coupon.  Since she’s going to be shipping her quilt tops to my sister, I said no. But what about baby quilts?  That’s when I  pulled the email out of the trash on my phone to read it. Now if I only had been able to go to the movie.  When I got into work I was reminded that I had to work last night, so I had about 2 hours to kill between the end of my normal work day and when I needed to work on the software.

The scroll fabrics will be used for the backings of these two quilt tops.

 

There may be a border in the future of the first quilt — but I have to dig around to see if I can find the fabric I was going to use.

The red and blue fabrics will be used in Dawns Early Light, Narragansett Blues, Garden Party, and who knows what else  The black fabric on the left I bought simply because I liked it.   I’m not 100% certain why I bought the Wrap-n-Zap since I have an unopened package — I guess because the price was right.

Meanwhile, while I was waiting for my turn at work, I’ve sewn a few rows on Carolina Chain.  That last row is just stuck on the wall.

Posted in: Stash