Stashbusting Report 3/10/08

Woo-Hoo............I'm over 100!

Fabric Added This Week - 0 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 2.875 yards

Fabric Used This Week - 20 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 103.875 yards

Net year to date: 101 yards used

One of my online friends, May is working on a project to make pillowcases and this is the message she posted to our group:

I'm co-chair of my Guild's latest community project, Project Pillowcases, Cases for Children's Smiles. We are making cheerful pillowcases for kids ages 2 - 17 who are in hospitals with life changing illnesses. Tomorrow the Chair and I will be delivering our first 100 pillowcases to the NJ coordinator of ConKerr Cancer. She will be distributing them to kids in NJ Hospitals. We've had 2 Sew Ins so far and will continue to have them throughout the years to come. Biggest problem we've had so far is finding suitable fabrics for the older kids, especially the boys.

If your are interested in this nationwide project, their site is ConKerrCancer.org. You don't have to send large numbers of cases like our Guild is, any cases are more than welcomed.
May in Jersey

I sent her 9 yards to use for the pillowcases.

Pineapple Blossoms

Thanks again to Sossity's kit idea, I finished putting together another quilt kit. I saw on Susie's blog last week a Pineapple Blossom Quilt done in greens.
I couldn't remember where I saw it, but found it now. I knew that my green scrap tote was overflowing, so I started cutting greens into 2" pieces in 3 lengths. Then I got out my white/tan scrap tote.

I had all the 3.5" squares cut before I thought to take a picture. Here's the pile of white/cream scraps waiting to be pressed and cut.

Here is the after photo of that tote. Notice all the nice squares all cut up for the next project and the strips eady for string quilts.

The March Challenge Quilt

I'm not sure when exactly I cut the fabric for my online March Challenge, Catch a Spinning Star, one of JulyL's free patterns, but I would guess it was late at night. I cut 6 squares that were supposed to be 5.25 x 5.25 like this:

They were cut 5 x 5.25 instead.
Which wouldn't be a bad thing except............ when I was clearing off my cutting table I cut all those 2" black squares so I wouldn't have to put any back into my scrap totes.

I said a few choice words to myself last night and then went in search of more black solid, which I found, luckily, in my black scrap tote. It's not the same fabric, but at least it's a solid black.

So, I continued on, making the blocks for this quilt. I finished putting together 12 blocks and still had these left over:

I must have been really tired when I cut this one out.


I sewed the sashing strips together and put 8 of the 12 up on the design wall. I really like this one and may make more blocks, since I already have half of them sewn, and make this a queen size.

Stashbusting Report - 3/4/08

This past week wasn't such a good week for me. I still used more than I bought.

4.25 yards this week!!

Fabric Added This Week - 1 yard
Fabric Added Year to Date - 2.875 yards

Fabric Used This Week - 4.25 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 83.875 yards

Net year to date: 81 yards used


This is what I purchased at the Quilt show. An activity kit to make for Andrew. I believe that it has about a yard of fabric in it.

T-shirt Quilts & Pottery Barn Baby Quilt

I did these 2 last week for a customer and used Colorburst LAVA thread. One of them has batting and flannel backing and the other has minkee backing and no batting. She did a great job piecing them and was happy with the quilting.




This same customer purchased a Pottery Barn bumper pad at Goodwill for $2. She took it apart and sewed it back together for a quilt. I echoed the shapes and did a squiggle around the blocks instead of SID due to the difference in fabrics.

Sunday Stitchers

My friends Janet and Denise came over on Sunday and Janet quilted one of her UFOs. It is really cute dogs with floppy ears, all flannel. She meandered while Denise and I lifted the ears.



I loaded a wheelchair lap quilt and tried my hand as some free-motion flowers, leaves and loops.

Catching Up

It feels like I haven't posted in days - which, actually, I haven't!

Bloomington Quilt Show
The quilt show on Saturday was wonderful even though I didn't win a ribbon, it was so exciting to see my quilts hanging there among the winners. There is SO MUCH QUILTING on most of the winning quilts. I think there should be a category for quilts with no micro-stitching. But, bottom line - THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL!

It was a pretty crowded show and the isles are quite narrow, so taking a straight on photo of my quilts was impossible. I did get a couple shots just to prove that they were there.