I’ve hit 100 yards used!  The backing for No Blue Geese pushed me over the mark.  No new fabric was purchased in this week – even though I was in 4 different quilt shops over the week.  Oh, but the thread!  I also bought Judy’s books Weekend Quilts. Pictured above is a quilt block and two FQs I received in the mail.  There was no return address on the envelope, just a Hope Mills, NC postmark.

Here’s my report:

Fabric Added this Week: .5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 175.511 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 5.865 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 102.453 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 73.058 yards

Between now and the end of the year I don’t see much more fabric going out — maybe a binding or two — but we’ll see.

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After last Sunday’s tour of the  area fabric stores, I stayed home and quilted.  Which means I my report is not as bad as it could be.  I used 7 yards in the backing, binding and pillowcases I finished yesterday.

Fabric Added this Week: 10.5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 175.011 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 7.0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 96.588 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 78.423 yards

It looks like I’ll definitely hit 100 yards used by the end of the year.  I’ve got another backing to make before Tuesday!  Oh, and if anyone has any recommendations for how to quilt the piano key border on my flying geese quilt, I’d appreciate the suggestions.  I think I have everything else figured out.

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It’s time for another stash  report, and things aren’t looking the best.  Since I completed the four sting blocks last Tuesday,  I haven’t sat at my sewing machine – or picked up my Double Wedding Ring to quilt on.  It’s not because I’ve abandoned quilting, but because my husband and I started walking in the evenings and quite frankly we are out of shape.  This walking is about to kill us, but if we can survive another week, I think we’ll survive, and definitely be healthier for it.

So, where did the pictured fabric come in?  My friend V found a Craigslist ad of a woman selling her stash.  I had no business even looking, but a forwarded the add to my husband and he said “Go for it”.  Apparently he saw something about a long arm machine.  Anyway, Saturday morning found us at the sale.  I have very few print  “neutrals” in my stash — most are tone on tone — and not much in the way of Christmas prints, so that’s what I focused on.

The second picture is the bundle of green FQs I won as a door prize at a craft fair we went to that afternoon.  It’s kinda funny and sad at the same time.  My husband and I arrived just as they were doing the hourly drawing.  You had to be present to win.  After looking around the show, just as we were leaving they started calling ticket numbers.  I bet they called 10 numbers and no one was there.  At one point they called the ticket number after ours.  Finally the guy at the door hollered across the room and said “see that lady with the pink shirt, call her number”.  He had spotted me looking at my tickets.  I took them up to the guy calling the #s and they told me to go pick up a door prize.  I was delighted.  Our entrance fee was recouped.  My husband, I think, was a bit embarrassed.  Hey, don’t get between a quilter and a door prize of FQs.

I’d like to say I’ll make better progress this week, but later today I’m off to find some backing fabric for a quilt that has leapfrogged into the front of queue.  I thought I had backing, but when I opened up the fabric bundle, I only found fabric for the pillow case.

So, now to the numbers:

Fabric Added this Week: 9.75 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 164.511 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 1.07. yards
Fabric Used to Date: 89.588 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 74.923 yards

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It’s a simple report this week.

Nothing in. Nothing out.

I’ve been working on the Cream & Green swap block.  Hope to have a picture of the two assembled rows tomorrow for Design Wall Monday.

Fabric Added this Week: .75 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 154.761 yards

Fabric Used this Week: .342 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 88.518 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 66.243 yards

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Three quarter yard cuts followed me home after I went to the Lee’s Summit Quilters’ Guild Quilt Show Saturday afternoon. Since I was on the far side of town I drove on up to Rustic Yearning to check out their Civil War Reproduction fabrics. It’s tough to locate fabrics which will work in tiny quilt blocks. I’m not positive these will, but will give them a shot.

There were lots of great quilts at the show. I tried to take pictures w/my phone, but they didn’t turn out well. I didn’t have my camera since my DH went to the Ottawa, Kansas Veteran’s Day parade. My nephew marched with the Cub Scouts and my niece marched with the school band. I slept, as worked all night.

Not much fabric was used this week — just enough to make a cute little duffel bag early in the week. I spent my time working on Blue Ridge Beauty, the Cream and Green swap blocks and the DWR.

Here’s the report:

Fabric Added this Week: .75 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 154.761 yards

Fabric Used this Week: .342 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 88.518 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 66.243 yards

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This week there was more fabric in than out.  The week started off with quilting the Row Quilt, but both the backing and bind was counted last week.  Monday night was Guild where Sally Collins was our guest speaker.  Between seeing her exquisite quilt and the Guild auction in the spring,  I decided to try my own hand at making a mini quilt.

Mini blocks just don’t take  a whole lot of fabric.  I’ve got the fabric cut for another dozen of the 1″ stars — well into strips.  If I cut the actual pieces, they might end up in the trash they are so small!

Mini quilts also require fabric with tiny prints. This required shopping.  I have more than enough fabric to complete my mini quilt, but I want variety.  So, over the next few months I’ll need to pick up another 4 or 5 FQ.

Saturday I got to meet Mary of Quiltn’ Grandma’s Blog.

Mary was in town visiting her son last week and on Saturday while he was at work we went to the Sewing and Quilting Expo and to Peddler’s Wagon in Parkville, MO (do not trust Yahoo! Maps for this store).    That’s where I picked up the white and cream fabric for my redwork snowmen.

So, here’s this week’s damages:

Fabric Added this Week: 3.5 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 154.011 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 0.257  yards
Fabric Used to Date: 86.901 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 67.11 yards

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Saturday my quilting buddies and I had a quilting day.  We haven’t had one of those in a long time.  We had a great time and each of us accomplished a significant amount of quilting. Too bad I didn’t think about bringing a camera.  T – quilted a baby quilt, J – completed a wall hanging, sandwiched it and started the quilting on it,  S – finished the quilting on a quilt and started attaching the binding, V – finished marking the lines on her squares for her HST and flying geese (and there were tons of them!) and I got all of the Star Struck blocks sewn into rows and sewed 8 rows into 4 pairs of rows.

Before we started all of this there was the field trip to the LQS.  I was being very good and then I heard from across the store  “Pammy, have you seen this music fabric?”  I promise I tried to ignore the question — in fact I hollered back “Not interested”.  The someone tracked me down and put it in my hands.  I was lost then.    I almost made it out of the store with just the pattern on the right and the yellow music FQ, but then it was suggested that the black w/yellow dot would be a great lining fabric, so it jumped into my bag as well.

The guitar fabric was given to me.  J had a length of it she was going go make a whole cloth quilt from.  I jokingly said “I need a FQ of that”.  The next thing I knew, she handed me a FQ.  Turns out she bought one for me when she bought what she needed for her quilt. Thanks, J!

Evening in Ireland is a cool Irish Chain variation.  The pattern is available on the internet from the designer, Truddie Hughes.  I’ve always wanted to make an Irish Chain quilt, so I’ve added this to my list of possible choices for when I get that far.

Not pictured are the leaders for the HandiQuilt that arrived Friday afternoon.

Now that you know what came into the house (really it was only 3/4 of a yard countable), what did I do on the outbound side?

I continued working on my DWR — no fabric there until I get to the binding.  But I also worked on my Green & Cream swap blocks.  I’m quilting them one block at a time and I don’t have the all of the backing squares cut yet.  Used 1/2 yard.  I also finished 20 Blue Ridge Beauty blocks, that’s a bit over 1/2 yard.  Finally I started working on “the new project” using just a bit of fabric.  In the end I used more than I brought into the house, so that’s a good thing.

Fabric Added this Week: .75yards
Fabric Added to Date: 150.511 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 1.162 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 76.519 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 73.992 yards

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It’s a good thing we aren’t tracking pattern purchases.  “Foldy” Stuff  came home with me from the St Claire County Quilt Guild Show in Lawry City, Missouri.  It’s a neat technique and will make use of my shoebox full of 2″ strips.  The thread I bought at Jo-Ann’s with coupons. The yellow is for the remaining quilting in Compass Lone Star.  It’s a bit brighter than what I started with, but I don’t think it will matter. The gray I’ll use for piecing.

No fabric came in, but I used enough fabric this past week to put me over 75 yards used.  Hum…I wonder if I can use another 25 in the next 3 months?

So here are the numbers:

Fabric Added this Week: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 149.761 yards

Fabric Used this Week: 2.733 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 75.357 yards

Net Stash for 2010: 74.404 yards

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