STASH REPORT - Week 27, 2014 (7/5/14)

Used this Period: 2.8 yards
Added this Period: 0 yards

Used year to Date: 117.01 yards
Added Year to Date: 46.19 yards 

Net Stash Decrease for 2014: 70.82 yards  

 

Another small step forward.  My usage this week was:  1) .75 yard for machine embroidered shoes, 2) 2.05 yards for a Christmas panel made into a lap quilt.  I finally finished embroidering all the Sally King shoe designs I have purchased; now I have embroidered blocks for 3 quilts.  One is embroidered on a pink background (12 blocks), one on an aqua background (18 blocks), and one on a green background (13 blocks--one for the backing).  The embroidered blocks are 8.5 inches.  I will have to decide on a setting for each--in the past I've used a log cabin setting, a sawtooth star setting, etc. to incorporate embroidered blocks.  I'm very pleased with them--these shoes have such detail!--and even more pleased to take the embroidery arm off my machine for awhile!  

 

While I was doing the last shoe design, I looked in my basket of quilt panels--why did I listen to that siren song calling "buy me" when I saw them on sale after Christmas' past?  I pulled four flannel panels that I decided needed to be finished soon.  Then I got out that container of leftover flannel pieces and pieced together 4 borders around one panel--and added another lap quilt to the LongarmUFO stack!  I will need to purchase flannel for backings and borders for these 4 when we go to the big city.  Remind me at Christmas--DON'T buy any more Christmas panels until all panels in the basket have become quilts!!  It doesn't matter how cute they are!  I used Bonnie Hunter's system of cutting the remaining flannel scraps into various sized blocks for future use.  I have one piece that is large enough to become a pillowcase; I hope to get it finished this week.