Quilt-a-thon progress has been minimal on my part since Thursday.  Believe it or not this is all I’ve personally accomplished.  Finished 9 chain blocks to my Scrappy Irish Chain and 6 partial blocks.

But, we’ve had a guest this weekend.  And I’m happy to report that she finished her first quilt top yesterday afternoon.

This is the top she’s been working for since the beginning of August.  The center just needed the borders.  Now to get it quilted.  She started a stash the last time she was here, so the backing is coming from her stash.

This week I get to count my young friend’s quilt top in my total.  Last night she put the border on the quilt top and it’s now ready to quilt.  The top came from my stash, but the backing is coming from her stash — the one she started the last time she visited.

Additionally I swapped some Halloween fabric with a friend — I sent her more than she sent me so it’s not a complete wash on my numbers.

Finally, I made 3 of the Just Takes 2 blocks.

Here are my numbers:

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 1 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  91.802 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 3.879  yards
Fabric Used to Date: 74277 yards

Net Used for the year -19.525 yards

Judy pointed out that there’s 15 more weeks left in the year and asked if we will make headway in our stash busting efforts.    If I get everything accomplished which is on my list by the end of the year I might just break even – so that’s my goal.  We’ll see what really happens by the end of the year.

I suppose technically, it’s not day 2 since I started the 4-patches back in July 2008 and repurposed them this past March. However, it is the 2nd day I’ve focused on this quilt.

Each stack contains 10 units, so I have enough for 50 blocks.  Tonight I listened to 3 CDs of my book, so about 3 hours of sewing.  I guess that means I am participating in the Quiltathon that Judy is hosting. I wonder if I can carve out another 3 hours tomorrow evening?

Earlier this year I pulled out my scrappy 4-patches and a length of neutral fabric to make Scrappy Irish Chain from Adventures with Leaders & Enders by Bonnie Hunter.  Sewing the connector units was my leader/ender project this past spring and summer.  The project got put away when I realized I had sewn about 20 4-patches turned wrong and I needed more focus.

Why did I pull it out tonight?  Well, the past couple of weeks I’ve focused on sampler blocks needing a lot of focus.  The past couple of days I’ve avoided my sewing machine and I figured out why (other than I’ve been reading 9 of Mary Balogh‘s books since the first of the month – I was off work for 5 days).  I needed something mindless to work on and something which might just become a top sooner than later (JT2, SBS and the Christmas BOM are those later projects).

So, I loaded the first CD of Steve Berry’s The Columbus Affair and started sewing.  Two CDs later I have half of the 4-patches sewn to connector units – admittedly I started with the connector units already sewn to one of the 4-patches.

I’m looking forward to working on this quilt and listening to the book.  Who know how much I’ll get done by the end of the book or how many 3″ spools blocks I’ll make as leader/enders.

This Halloween fabric came in the mail today from a friend.  She does not like spiders – so much so that she reported that she threw the whole bundle in the trash.  When I heard that I asked her to send it to me.

I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this yet.  I don’t have a whole lot of Halloween fabric.  I think I’m going to send her some of this Disney Halloween fabric in exchange.

I purchased it to make a Stack-n-Wack quilt, but I think the motifs are too far apart.

Since I put away my JT2 blocks, all that is left on my design wall are my leader/ender spool blocks and my Tetris quilt top.  There should be no reason at all why the top has not been quilted — except I couldn’t figure out how to quilt it.  My original plan went out the window when I changed the design.

The good news is late last night I figured it out — sort of.  At least enough to attempt to work on it after I get off from work tonight.  You can see what others have on their design wall over at Patchwork Times.

I forgot to take pictures before I started sewing the blocks together.  Bear Paw (43) and Aeroplane (44 & 45).  This gives me the 3 blocks for Sept 1st, plus 6 make up blocks.  That give me one week to do something else before the next set is released.

Last week I worked primarily on my Just Takes Two blocks.  Six were made — 3 from the Sept 1st release plus 3 blocks toward catch up.  I have three more blocks cut out, but those will go in next week’s report.  I almost forgot about the fabric I used for the Christmas Star.   Even though I’ve been off work all week, I’ve avoided all places to shop for fabric.

Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date:  92.802 yards

Fabric Used Since Last Report: 1.049  yards
Fabric Used to Date: 70.398 yards

Net Used for the year -22.404

yards

Don’t forget to check out other stash reports over at Patchwork Times.

This is Block 29 of Just Takes 2.  It’s called Cathedral Window.  I used paper piecing, traditional piecing and the Quilt in a Day flying geese rulers.

There’s 93 pieces in this 15″ block.  I thought I’d never get it finished.