This week, in addition to playing with the treadle machine, I cut 2 1/2″ strips into 16″ lengths to make Scrappy Trips, a Bonnie Hunter pattern. I have no idea how many strips I’ve crammed in to the shoe box. My original intent was to use a 40 strip set, but then realized the resulting quilt would only be 30″ x 40″ and I want a larger quilt — closer to 60″ x 80″.
So, I pulled the 2 1/2″ strip box out, and started cutting 16″ strips of fabrics I thought would play nicely with the original strips. I kept cutting until I was out of strips, then pulled out the “scraps” my friends gave me a week ago since those colors play nicely with the original fabrics.
I’ll count this fabric when I get the quilt made. So, nothing out, and nothing in either. Although it was tempting to run back to JoAnn’s yesterday afternoon. My sister and I ran over there to get border and backing fabric for the quilt she’s working on and when we got it home I thought the purple she bought would be a great border for the floral quilt I made a couple of weeks ago. I tell myself it’s big enough for a child (it’s 48 x 60), but then at the same time, I know I prefer to make quilts in the 60 x 70/80 range. I could pull more florals from my stash and make another 10 blocks and the quilt would by 60 x 72.
So, the numbers:
Fabric Added Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Added to Date: 80.11 yards
Fabric Used Since Last Report: 0 yards
Fabric Used to Date: 23.141 yards
Net Used for the year -56.97 yards
To see how others are doing check out the links over at Patchwork Times.
That Scrappy Trips block is on my to do list. Looking forward to seeing how yours works out.
You and I are in about the same place on our stash reports. I’m trying to impose a quilt shop ban on myself for a few months.
But the fabric is so tempting! Sounds like you have some great projects in progress.