At the moment my design wall is empty. This past week I got the border’s on the birthday quilt and then re-attached the binding to Simply Squares so I could finish it up. Now I have Josh’s quilt on my sewing machine to be repaired.

Simply Squares, when I made the top in Oct 2007 (?) was a mystery quilt sponsored by Delaware Quilts. The mystery ran the same weekend that my friends and I gathered out at my Mom’s for a bit of quilting. The final layout of the blocks were up to the quilter. Now the pattern is available for purchase.

The quilt is quilted using Superior Omni Thread in Navy Blue top and bottom. Lots and lots of bobbins were wound. I really think most of my time was spent winding and changing the bobbin. It’s quilted using the pantograph Feather Me! by Meredith England. I love the texture it gives to the quilt.

Batting is Hobbs Bleached 80/20. After washing the quilt measures 56 1/2 “x 71 1/2”.

While I was at it I made a pillowcase to go with the quilt.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what others are working on.

This is a big week for stash usage. Sydney is making a red and black quilt and all of the black fabric came from my stash. I finished the Aiming for Accuracy Quilt top. I re-did the binding on Simply Squares so I could stitch it down my machine and I made a pillowcase to go with it.

This week I’m repairing the quilting on my nephew’s quilt, so I don’t see the numbers moving next week.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 164.037 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report:  10.674 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 104.323 yards

Net Used for the year -59.714 yards

See how others are doing with their stashes over at Patchwork Times.

Jo over at Jo’s Country Junction, along with her friend Nell have issued a challenge to all of us with multiple Bonnie Hunter projects going on. Get one finished up before Bonnie’s new mystery Celtic Solstice starts on November 29th. At this point in time I’m not planning to do the new mystery as I still haven’t finished Orca Bay from November 2011!

Between Orca Bay still in a million pieces and a few of my own projects with deadlines, I wasn’t going to participate in Jo’s challenge either. I was sure I had a BH quilt in progress – definitely have a few to quilt – but didn’t think I had anything close enough to being finished to squeeze into my schedule.

Then I saw the first linky box on Jo’s page.  It is Michelle’s Cheddar Bow Ties. Which reminded me that I knew exactly where my Spools quilt top and border fabric is since I just straightened my UFOs and quilt tops. So, my goal before the end of November will be to get the borders on this quilt.

To see what others are going to work on leading up to the start of the mystery, check out the links over at Jo’s Country Junction.

The top finishes at 81 x 91 — nearly too big to get any picture in my sewing room. Now off to V for quilting.

Now off to figure out how wide the last border is.

Another narrow white border and then a large leaf border to go.

3 1/2 borders to go. At this rate I’ll finish on Friday.

Only 4 1/2 more borders to go.

I’m posting this a bit late because I was determined to get it finished!  Before going to bed last night I had all but the outer borders attached to the quilt.  This is Aiming for Accuracy a weekly quilt-along sponsored by the Quilting Gallery.

When it was first announced I wasn’t going to do this quilt — I have plenty in progress, I didn’t know what I would use for fabric and wasn’t excited by the size – 58 x 82.  A little too narrow for my taste.  But about 3 weeks into the quilt along I decided what the heck. I had found a length of pink fabric for my constant and decided I could use some of those florals sitting in my stash. I’d worry about the width when I got that far.

With the exception of the flying geese, each fabric is only used in one block/lesson. I didn’t begin to use all of the floral fabric in my stash.  For the most part the flying geese are made from fabric used in the quilt, although I suspect there are one or two which were not.

By adding the flying geese and adjusting the pink spacer borders on each side the quilt top is now 66 x 82. I just have enough of the pink fabric for binding when I finally get it quilted.

Hop over to Patchwork Times to see what other are working on.

This past week I’ve been going and going and not much time was spent in the sewing room.  I do have one of the extra borders sewn on to the Aiming for Accuracy quilt, but that’s about it. I have the day off tomorrow, so perhaps I’ll be able to finish up the quilt top so it can be counted.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards

Fabric Added to Date: 164.037 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report:  0.375 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 93.679 yards

Net Used for the year -70.388 yards

See how others are doing with their stashes over at Patchwork Times.