Stasbusting Week - October 31, 2010

Not as much to report as I would like.

Fabric Added - 9.5 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 55.25 yards

Fabric Used - 4.75 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 148.125 yards

YEAR TO DATE STASH USED: 92.875 yards

Retreat StashbustingThe Rossville BOM packages contained pieces and not necessarily yardage, so they weren't counted coming in and won't be counted as used.

The leftover Storyteller blocks were just that...leftovers, so they have already been counted, long ago.

I bought 7.5 yards at Yoders Basement to make placemats for Julie, but haven't finished them yet, so they'll get counted next week.

Friday Night Sew-In

Yep, I'm sewing tonight.



First the BOM blocks for tomorrow morning. I don't know how it got to be the end of October already, but they will be done for show n tell.

TA-DA....

Then Julie's placemats I started in Shipshe. I DIDN'T GET TO THESE TONIGHT :(

But, I did get these treat bags made. One for Andrew and one for Elizabeth.





Both have the same lining fabric.



Finished the outside applique on a dresden plate block.

Back From Shipshewana

What a wonderful retreat! I can't believe it's here and gone already. I so enjoyed meeting everyone and am simply amazed by the talents of our group. Show and Tell was a treat and Jane's idea of laying everything out in the lounge area and walking around to see all the wonderful projects made it great. We could ask questions if we wanted more info and those that wanted to get back to sewing could browse quickly and get right back to work. We did show and tell on Friday and I'll bet if we had waited another day, there would have been twice a much.

The Farmstead Inn was the perfect setting with clean spacious guest rooms and an ample sewing room. Next year we will try to get an even larger sewing area so we have more room to lay out those works in progress.

To the Retreaters:
Thanks so much for the wonderful gift and I really appreciate your kind words on the postcards. It really was a fun event to plan and I have already been talking to the group coordinator about 2011.

Here is a link to some photos. Not all of them have captions yet. If you know who the owners of the show and tell items are, please leave a comment on the photo.

Here's a link to Karen's photos.

Leftover Storyteller blocks

I can't believe that the retreat is almost over. It has been wonderful and we will be having this retreat again next year!

Rossville 2009 BOM

Having a great time and now I'm putting together my 2009 rossville quilts BOM.

Another quilt from the shirts

Made from the same shirts from last weeks qUilt

The early bird quilters

All set up and ready to sew.