FABRIC STASH - WEEK 2-4, 2017 (1/15-29/17)

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

Used year to Date:  0 yards
Added Year to Date:  0 yards

Net Stash Decrease for 2017:   0 yards

 

What a dismal stash report!  If I don't start putting in some time soon, I won't even reach 100 net yards used for 2017! I finally got serious about working on this month's quilt (see Judy Laquidara's blog) the latter part of last week and then worked on it this week.  For such a small quilt (I'm making it for a twin bed), it sure is taking lots of time to finish.  This is the quilt Sandi (my long-distance quilting partner) and I are making as our challenge this year--applique pattern called Country Cottages.  We're both feeling a bit blah about sewing/quilting right now so we chose a pattern that doesn't have too many pieces, or so we thought.  We were supposed to be adding a bit of dimension to each block, which she is doing.  I decided I didn't really like the quilt and did not add any dimension to mine.  These two quilts will look sooooo different, as our quilts usually do.  I decided to go with a monthly holiday theme, but had no specific quilt fabric for the months of May, June, or August.  Oh, well.  The block I like best is November--the colors are so bright and beautiful.  If I were making the quilt again (which I'm not!), I would use jewel-tones for all the months and would not use holiday themed fabrics.  Today I worked on sashing and the first border (matches the sashing)--and it took all day to do that and get the rows together.  I still have a couple of borders to put on, but not tonight.  Unfortunately, that means my stash numbers will not move again this week.

We got more snow the first part of the week--it's really stacking up!  Our road is one vehicle wide now.  Now we are in a deep-freeze with single-digit and below zero temperatures, with snow predicted to start again on Tuesday.  We truly are living in a winter wonderland here--so beautiful.  Roads--well, that's another story.

 

While I haven't been quilting, I have been working on my yarn stash.  I started a baby quilt--and then started a ripple quilt with yarn I've had for a long, long time.  I will have to get more yarn to finish the baby quilt--maybe tomorrow if we go to the nearby big city.  The ripple afghan is all single crochet so it is progressing, but slowly.  The good news is that I will only have 2 skeins of off-white yarn left in the yarn stash, plus small leftovers from prior projects.  Soon, I should be able to work on embroidery projects and painting projects--in addition to quilting, of course!