Sunday Stash Report, October 19, 2014

My fabric stash statistics took a little plunge this week to have the right fabrics to finish Scrap Crystals (yet to be named...).  I've been busy with Bonnie Hunter as my house guest as well as the Sunshine Guild Meeting, and two workshops through Sunshine Quilt Guild that I attended.  Since my workshop blocks are on my "wall" you will need to return tomorrow to hear all about them.

The commotion of the week concluded on Thursday evening after a fond farewell to my friend.  She was sure happy to be returning home from a hectic week of lectures and workshops.  Three lectures and five workshops; all of which were pretty much back to back to back.  Bonnie is such a pleasure to be around. Her next lecture and workshops are in Texas and then it's off on a working cruise with five other teachers on the Caribbean.  What a life!

Kolumbia

Kaktus

Early on in the week I finished Kolumbia and Saturday I finished Kaktus.  Don't you just love the quilting?  No matter the quilting design Kerry has a way with her quilting that I'm never disappointed with.  I can't wait for the next one to finish...bring on the binding!

Thursday evening brought the first Midnight Flight Swap package.  Elizabeth takes the honor of being first this swap.  The turn in date isn't until November 30th, but sending them in when you finish is just fine.

Return for Design Wall Monday...my "wall" awaits you!  Check out other quilters through the links at Patchwork Times.

Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD: 176.75 yards
Purchased this week:  6.75 yards
Purchased YTD: 154.75 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  22 yards

Design Wall Monday, October 13, 2014

Kadence

Another complete finish!  This is a FREE pattern on Bonnie Hunter's website.  It is called Fourth of July.  I will be donating this one to a Veterans Home in Southern Maryland.  Next one to bind is Kolumbia and then the big one Kaktus.  

Kaktus and Kolumbia

So my wall still has Buggy Barn birds on it.  I am anxious to get back to it, but other quilting priorities have come above it.

Krazy Kookoos

I have been getting ready for my two workshops with Bonnie Hunter.  Winston Ways and Scrap Crystals are this week at Memory Lane Quilt Shop.  There is going to be a wonderful trunk show at the Sunshine's Guild meeting tomorrow evening.  I have all my "Bonnie" quilts made since January 2012 ready to present.  As everyone at the meeting will expect I have quite a lot to share =^.^=

Winston Ways and Scrap Crystals

I am also working on my Midnight Flight Swap units.  I have one of the two neutral squares sewn on each of the 144 Unit 1s and 144 Unit 2s.  Next will be the trimming and then sewing on the remaining neutral square.  This swap isn't due until around Thanksgiving time, but that's when the new "Bonnie" mystery starts...  If you are interested in those details you can find them on her website.

Midnight Flight Swap

Now if that is not enough after this week I will be scrambling on my October UFO.  At the suggestion of my DH there has been a change of names.  Koncenteric Konnection is at the very beginning stages of assembly.  There is a lot of work yet to go...it pretty much looks like an impossibility that it will finish...but I will certainly give it a go.

Koncenteric Konnection

 Until next time have a great week.  Start it off with a cup of your favorite warm beverage and see lots of other wonderful projects through the links at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, July 20, 2014

Beverly's 13.75 yards on Friday 7/18.  

Paradise Sewing 3.75 yards on Saturday 7/19.

Did damage to my stash statistics!  Every piece has a place right now...believe it?  From Beveryly's on the top on the left 8 yards that backs two quilts Kolumbia and Kootenay Kabins (this name may change yet).  Center fabrics are for my July UFO Kurly Kats that you can see I am way behind on starting.  On the right, red for the binding of Kranberries and the dot may end up being the outside border for the San Diego Humane Society Fur Ball donation (another one that I am behind on, but it is started).  From Paradise Sewing the brown is also for the San Diego Humane Society Fur Ball donation and the Black print will be the background for Kurly Kats.  


Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD:  132.75 yards
Purchased this week:  17.5 yards
Purchased YTD:  114 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  18.75 yards

I assembled the Bible Blocks into a top over the weekend.  These blocks were made at the retreat we did in June.  The setting works out well.  Not sure if I'll finish out the stars in the outer border or leave it a is.  There is enough of the light blue to use for the binding.  Thinking ahead I have come up with a label that shows the block names and maker.

Thanks for a Great Place for Us to Sew!

June 2014

David & Goliath – Sue

Joseph’s Coat- Shelly

Solomon’s Puzzle – Jeanne

Job’s Tears – Sandi

Jacob’s Ladder – Kristy

Garden of Eden – Betty

Wings of Eagles – Bonnie

Walls of Jericho – Kerry

Children of Israel – Lynne

Quilt from An Old Testament Bible Block Series

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Sunday Stash Report, June 29, 2014

#10 June UFO
Kolumbia

My June UFO Kolumbia is finished!  Love that all fabrics came from my stash...even the backing that is pieced from leftovers of the same fabrics used in the front.  I made a change to the design by adding pieced corner units that compliment the three borders.  Kolumbia is a design called Scrappy Star by Wendy Gilbert.  It was nice sewing something red, white, and blue through Flag Day.  I'll probably keep it on my design wall through the 4th of July.

So there is a change, finally, to this week's stash stats.  There are more using their stash; see who through the links of Patchwork Times...  

Used this week:  10.25 yards
Used YTD:  129.5 yards
Purchased this week:  0 yards
Purchased YTD:  92 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  37.5 yards

Sunday Stash Report, June 22, 2014

I have nothing more to share than what's been on my design wall for a week.  I've been doing all sorts of things with my Mom.  This is Kolumbia a design called Scrappy Star by Wendy Gilbert. My June UFO project.  I'll be back to sewing this all too soon. :(!  Mom leaves on Tuesday bright and early.

Nothing to change this weeks stats!  There are more using their stash better than I have this past week.  See who through the links of Patchwork Times...  


Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD:  119.25 yards
Purchased this week:  0 yards
Purchased YTD:  92 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  27.25 yards

Design Wall Monday, June 16, 2014

 Didn't get much further on Kolumbia yesterday.  I did add the setting triangles and corners to the design wall.  I should be putting this together the first few days of this week.  

 These scraps are blue, brown, and neutral that I plan to use for Smith Morning Mountain.  I will need to do a second sort to match up the right shades of all the colors...but this is a start.

 Finally I get to show Kontimplate.  This is the project that I created for the Whisper Challenge.  If you follow the yellow cards below you'll see where my group started.  Boy was I way off!  The purple cards follow a photograph that didn't make it into the picture :(.

 Then there is the green, pink, and blue groups.  Everyone enjoyed the experience even if they didn't end up coming anywhere close to the beginning.  

There is a retreat in my week's itinerary.  More on that the next time.  Enjoy your week and see what everyone else is sewing at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, June 15, 2014

Isn't this a great quilt carry bag?  Mom made it from 2 1/2" strips.  It has Velcro closure and draw string sides with web strapping.  It folds out flat, pull in the sides to fit the contents and close the bag with the Velcro.  It's a great bag that will see lots of use from me.  Thanks Mom!

Here is Mom and DH over our Friday night meal.  At Bulls' Smokin BBQ you don't leave hungry!

Kolumbia is my June UFO.  I cut the setting triangles and corners out of a gold fabric.  All these fabrics are pulled from my stash.  Can't count anything as used yet, but next Sunday will see a change =^.^=!

This is the project I'll be working on at the retreat next weekend.  I have been wanting to make this project for the longest time.  Smith Mountain Morning by Bonnie Hunter.  I will be sorting through my scraps during the next few days for all the blues, browns and neutrals for this one.

For this week no change in the stash.  Enjoy other projects and how everyone is using their stash at Patchwork Times.

Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD:  119.25 yards
Purchased this week:  0 yards
Purchased YTD:  92 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  27.25 yards

Design Wall Monday, June 9, 2014

Kolumbia
#10 June 2014 UFO

 I have a busy sewing room...  I have been working on my June UFO.  The design is Scrappy Star Quilt by Wendy Gilbert.  These are the fabrics I plan to use along with a gold for the setting triangles that I have yet to discover in my stash.  

 The first cuts were made on Saturday night.  The small red square will be consistent through each of the stars.

 These are the rest of the blues that are ready for a background rectangle.  I hope I haven't made a mistake by using the red/blue argyle print as one of the blues... 

 These are the reds just getting started.

 The first five blocks of 25 are complete.  There are lots just stitches away from becoming stars.  Sashing will be after that.

You can see Mom and I are quite busy.  The project on the far left is a design called Crazy Eights.  Yellow Brick Road is in the center.  Both of these Mom is putting together.  We have a fun day planned for today.  A Buggy Barn house will be attempted!

Hope you are having a wonderful day.  Find time to check out other projects through the links at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report, June 1, 2014

Krackerjack and Kooter Klan

I am still busy working on Krackerjack.  It is Star Fusion by BlocLoc.com.  It seems to be a little difficult to find, but it is available online and maybe your local quilt shop if they are selling the fabulous rulers they manufacture.  I've started sewing each row together...notice how much the seams draw the project together?  That top row looks like something is drastically wrong!  I did run out of two fabrics while putting this project together.  I've been able to bounce back with my stash and the ability to do it is made easier since the fabrics were both black and white designs.  Besides the background that I purchased in January all of this is from my stash.  There is one more border that is predominately white that may or may not be added...we'll see.  Oh in case you are wondering that's Kooter Klan on the top right waiting for applique time.  It is a design by Karen Brow of javahousequilts.com called Newly Hatched.   

For June Sunshine Quilters BOM Sherri has coordinated a calendar quilt project.  It is designed by Jennifer Bosworth of ShabbyFabrics.com.  You can see I have July to sew up.  The doily (outside border) is accomplished with a single hole puncher.  Do you have one of these? DeLinda says she has one that I can borrow.  I hope she remembers to bring it with her tomorrow.  Sunshine meets in just over a week and I haven't even started.  Oh, Bonnie Sue...I'm finished with my Whisper Challenge...ready for the big reveal!

 

Today is the 52Quilts.com UFO Parade.  I have Koliding Krosses as my May finish.  If you have time, check out the parade Aunt Marti puts together on the first day of the month.  Aunt Marti also pulls the next month's project to work on (#10) and mine is the miniature Scrappy Star Quilt shown on the bottom right.  I have already figured out it's name!  How about Kolumbia?  It finishes at 48" square and was designed by Wendy Gilbert of Morning Star Designs.  Fabrics haven't been chosen yet, so who knows what will come out of my stash!

Konqueror

Last to share is Konqueror complete.  This project came from a workshop I took in September of last year from Joyce Weeks of geoffsmompatterns.com.  Joyce calls her design Survivors.  It seems I don't usually select feathers as a quilting design, but this time I did.  The photograph doesn't do this quilt justice.  It is in grays, blacks, purples, and a grayish neutral.  The quilting thread is purple.  You'd see it very differently if you had it in your hands.

Lot's of projects going on, but no yardage came in or left my sewing room.  Maybe next week Krackerjack will be a finish...certainly the BOM and the Whisper Challenge fabrics will take something off.  Enjoy the month of June!

Used this week:  0 yards
Used YTD:  119.25 yards
Purchased this week:  0 yards
Purchased YTD:  88 yards
Net Fabric Used in 2014:  31.25 yards