STASH REPORT - Week 18, 2013
Used this Week: 0 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 107.7 yards
Added Year to Date: 1.5 yards
Net Stash Decrease for 2013: 106.2 yards
Not a very inspiring report this week--no yardage used! I read a couple of fiction books from the library, did some laundry, was out-and-about a bit--and I did get some sewing done but nothing I could count. I finally got started on what I shall call my S/P (Sandi/Pat) annual challenge quilt on which I was doing a lot of thinking but not much sewing. I still couldn't find any large amount of the blue/silver Christmas fabric, but I did find about 5 squares that are 4.5 inches (enough to use for small areas of applique). And I found small amounts of a couple of blues that I can use. And I found almost 4 yards of white with silver sparkly trees scattered around. And decided that this would be a perfect opportunity to use it on a quilt that will probably only be used during the Christmas season. Will the sparkles stay through laundering? I don't know--but if they don't, it will just be a white background.
So, finally on Friday I went downstairs to see how my idea for the "snowballs" would work. I was doing one of the fabric manipulation things to give them some texture--and making them larger as I want a full-size quilt--and now I have 2 strips with 8 "snowballs" each! I'm still debating whether I want to use some blue "stars" on each to tack them down a bit more (using decorative stitches). I'll probably decide that when I blanket stitch around some of the blocks (on my Viking Diamond). On Saturday, I assembled 2 more blocks for machine applique. Today or tomorrow I will make a couple of the pieced blocks with the blues I pulled last week--I'm finally getting something done! I can't count any of the fabric yet--but at some point the BOM and this challenge quilt will give my usage numbers a boost.
This will be a very short week as I'm going to HMQS in Salt Lake City--taking a few classes, oohing & aahing over many beautiful quilts, getting inspired!
There is a significant portion of making projects that takes planning, sounds like all you did this week on that front will pay off later.
ReplyDeleteI've got some blue/silver fabrics from a leftover project. If you are interested let me know. I'll share my website where you can see the quilt I made with the fabrics. Anxious to see what your project ends up looking like. As for the sparkles staying in after washing...I usually don't wash my quilts so I can't say. I do see lots of sparkles on the fabrics when they are in bolts at the LQS sitting next to ones that have them. Might be a hint there. Sandi
ReplyDeleteHow very nice of you! I think I will be all right with what I have. I decided to put some blue in every block and the little bits I have are great for hatbands, scarves, flower petals, etc. The larger pieces will be used for the pieced blocks. I just "crinkled" some of the white/silver trees fabric for my snowman and really like the way it turned out. Do you have your quilts dry-cleaned? I used to have my cotton dresses dry-cleaned--they stayed nice for so much longer. I really appreciate your offer.
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