Wow — this is the first time in a while when I haven’t used any reportable fabric.  True, I finished the Christmas Row Quilt, but the border fabric was counted the previous week.  Although I’ll store the backing and binding fabric with the quilt top, I haven’t cut it, so I’m not counting it.

I’ve nearly finished another Le Moyne Star block to go in the Compass Lone Star quilt, but I was working from pieces, so it’s not really from my stash.

On the other hand, I found a thrift shop where all clothes are on sale for 25 cents or 5 for $1.

The dark paisley is a skirt someone made from a Cranston Print Works fabric, the plaid on the left is a pair of pants.  I have not idea how much fabric I’ll get from these, but when I cut them up I’ll report it.  Once I get them washed, I’ll put them with the rest of clothes I’m planning to cut up one day.

Now the numbers:

Fabric Added Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 99.634 yards

Fabric Used Last Week: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 136.906 yards

Net Used for 2011: 37.272 yards

See how others are doing with their stash by following the links over at Patchwork Times.

Last night I added the rest of the green borders to my Christmas Row Quilt.  My original intent was to add a wider red border, but I think I’m calling it a Top.  The quilt measures 86 1/2″ square – plenty big enough for a bed topper which will only be used for few weeks each year.

The good news is I won’t have to buy a king size batt when I get ready to quilt it.

This Christmas fabric by Cranston Print Works came from my Mom’s stash.   There’s no date on the selvage, but I seem to remember her buying it when I worked at Northwest Fabrics & Crafts — that was between Aug 1990 – Sept 1991.  I’m going to use it for the backing — when I get that far.

BTW — This was June’s UFO off my ‘Get it to a Top’ list.

The August UFO # was 7.  That was Mom’s Chain of Star (on the left) to be made into a top,  and the Red, White and Blue baby quilt to be quilted.  I finished them both in August.  I also finished the other July quilt – True Friends.  definitely a good month for UFOs.

Judy pulled #11 for September.  That is my Compass Lone Star.

This is a quilt-as-you-go project that I’ve been working on for a while.  The center is pieced and partially quilted.  I’ve got some of the LeMoyne Stars made.  The quilt has been through many design changes since I started it.  I knew this quilt was coming up soon (there were only 4 quilts left) so off and on I’ve been thinking about it.  As a result there may still be another design change – especially if I’m going to get this done this month!

Follow the links over on Judy’s page to see what everyone got done this past month.

Yesterday I asked if I had too much white space before my green border.  The consensus is no.  Which is good — that means I don’t have to frog the borders.  I’ve set the blocks this way to fool the eye into believing all the blocks are the same size – which they are since I added white coping strips to the smaller blocks.  Anyway, since I know the measurement of the ‘coping strip’ I added before the green border I can’t tell if I added to much. It’s not like I needed the quilt to be an exact measure to fit a pieced border — I just needed that red cornerstone square to not butt up against the green border.

There was no quilting last night as my husband and I attended a concert – The Low Anthem.  At least this time when we walked into the bar they didn’t ask us if we were the parents.  That happened a few weeks ago when we saw My First Born.

This evening no concerts, but I’ve been on a mission to finish cutting the fabric for the log cabin quilt I’m working on as a leader/ender project.

I started sewing the red and neutral squares together June 1st, or there about.  Now I have less than 60 light logs to make the block square.  I’ve cut fabric for 180 – 7 ” blocks, but I think I’m only going to need 168 blocks for an 84″ x 98″ inch quilt.

So, if I’m using this as my leader/ender quilt, why the push to get it all cut?

Well — I now have a completely contained project that I can take to work on the next time my quilting buddies get together to sew.   We are over due for a sewing weekend, but our schedules simply haven’t meshed.

Yesterday I debated my choices on how to piece the border.  4-patches or Seminole piecing.  Mary suggested square in a square – I did say not too long ago I found away to make them nearly perfect.

I opted for the 4-patches with the setting triangles for a couple of reasons. Seminole piecing would result in a bias edge and I’ll have enough trouble with the border without adding a bias edge into the mix.  Square in a Square blocks would be difficult to line the points up.  That leaves the 4-patches with setting triangles.  I’ll cut them with the Companion Angle Ruler and since they’ll be 4 1/2 inches on one side they wont’ be too bad.

So why the title of the post?

I grabbed a hunk of white/off white fabric from my stash that I had enough of and made nearly all of my 4-patches.  Oops, the quilt center lean creamy instead of bright white.  So now I have to make a decision – do I remake these — meaning I tear these apart — I don’t think I have enough brown fabric to red0 them or do I leave well enough alone.

kwiltnkats asked if a pieced borer was in the works for Candy Sunflower Seeds.  There wasn’t, but admittedly I wasn’t excited by what I was planning on doing or the finished size the quilt was going to be (approx 54 x 71).  So, I started playing with borders in EQ.  This is what I’ve come up with now:

I don’t like the big cornerstones — but I just had a flash of inspiration and if I go with this option I’ll make those the same size squares as the rest of them – 2 1/2″ finished.   The pieced border also makes the quilt a bit larger – approx 63 x 80 and more inline with the size I frequently  make.

Now I’m off to figure out exactly how I’m going to piece that border — 4-patches or Seminole piecing….