STASH REPORT - Week 47, 2012

Used this Week: 0 yards
Added this Week: 5 yards

Used year to Date: 178 1/2 yards
Added Year to Date: 103 3/4 yards 

Net Stash Decrease for 2012: 74 3/4 yards

Well,  I'm going to use Excuse #512 (it was Thanksgiving!), just like Judy did!!  However, I added yardage--Judy didn't!  So, here's what happened...

 

I have 2 beautiful little granddaughters in Hawaii, and they both love Dora, the Explorer.  (Dora came as a surprise to me about two and a half years ago--I was still in the Sesame Street era!) I made my older granddaughter a Dora pillowcase a couple of years ago--she takes turns using it with the younger granddaughter.  Now Dora shares the scene with princesses, so...2 yards of different princess fabrics and 1 yard of Dora fabric which will become pillowcases, hopefully this week.  And then, because Grandma loves angels, there are also 2 yards of different angel fabrics!  (When I worked at the library, I told an aspiring writer of children's books that if she wrote about princesses and used pink on the cover, her books would be a success!)

 

We don't have family close, so my husband and I helped with the community Thanksgiving dinner at the civic center, for our second year.  It was wonderful--we gain so much more from it than we contribute.  The roads were clear of snow/ice, which we think contributed to lower numbers.  But those who ate with us spent time visiting--and that's one of the goals of the dinner.  

 

I guess I have my work cut out for me this week--getting pillowcases made and getting my stash used number up to 200 yards.  As I look out the window, the trees are frosted with new snow and big flakes are floating gently to the ground. 

STASH REPORT - Week 46, 2012

Used this Week: 0 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards

Used year to Date: 178 1/2 yards
Added Year to Date: 98 3/4 yards 

Net Stash Decrease for 2012:  79 3/4 yards

This is getting too easy--I don't even have to go downstairs to check my notes on amount of fabric used!  Another week of "nothing used, nothing added."  My only time in the sewing room this past week was to embroider monograms on some lime green fabric.  My daughter-in-law will incorporate them on "art aprons" she is making for the two granddaughters.

 I hope I'll have better numbers to report next week!

STASH REPORT - Week 45, 2012

Used this Week: 2 1/4 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards

Used year to Date: 178 1/2 yards
Added Year to Date: 98 3/4 yards 

Net Stash Decrease for 2012:  79 3/4 yards

I can't believe that the mid-point of November is rapidly approaching!  Where has the time gone?!  It's been awhile since I have posted a stash report or a UFO report--I think the year is slipping away too fast. 

Between my last stash report and this one I flew to Hawaii to visit my son and his "3 girls" (wife + 2).  The younger granddaughter celebrated her 2d birthday-- and I needed some "grandmother" time!  I did the usual touristy things--the USS Arizona memorial is quite sobering, beach walks at sea level are easier than walks on the mountain, the lush foliage on the caldera is beautiful--as well as celebrating a birthday and attending a couple of Halloween parties.  Every vacation should include one big "event" and for me it was the evacuation when we received the tsunami warning (been a long, long time since I've slept on the floor!) and fled to high ground.  But the vignettes I'll treasure during our snowy months on the mountain are the "tea party" with my older granddaughter (soon to be 4) and the nestling into my shoulder of the younger granddaughter!

And then home to get re-acclimated to our higher elevation and to recover from jet lag--and to reenter my usual events.  The only sewing I have done since my last stash report (weeks 40-41) was on Thursday when I made 2 pillowcases to put into the troop boxes our Auxiliary sends monthly.  At first I thought I would dust off my serger and whip them out, but decided it was really time to try the "sausage" method.  It was sooooo easy and quick--pressing the seams before enclosing them in a French seam probably took the most time!  

And this week I will try to get the borders on my October UFO and start working on the November UFO.