Cross the backing for Home for the Holidays quilt off the list. Now I have to sandwich it.
I took a bunch of different fabrics from the line of fabrics that it was made from and cut them into 8″ squares to make the back. Nothing too fancy. You can see where I even messed up. I am not worried… it is for the back of the quilt.
Though I am not really “stashbusting”, just trying to get projects done I am going to try to keep track of what I buy this year. My guidelines for my stash report is as follows:
In: pretty simple, if I buy it or acquire it, it is “in” . I will round to the nearest 1/2 yard to make my life simpler. This will be mainly for kits, charm squares and BOM blocks – purchased yardage I will calculate what I actually buy.
Out: this is where it gets complicated. Because I have several projects in multiple stages, what should I consider used and what not? I am going to say if I cut the yardage and it gets used to make a backing , then it is out of my stash and into the WIP pile. If it is made into completed blocks, then it is busted (ie BOM blocks). But if I cut yardage for prep to making a quilt, it is not counted until the blocks or top is made. If the blocks are previously made prior to starting this stash report and not into tops yet, this is tricky. I am going to say only those don’t count and only things that are used to finish the quilt will be counted.
That being explained, on to the State of the Stash.
Purchased:
Total Purchased: 15.5 yards
Used
Total Used: 9 yards
Net Total for Weeks 1 & 2 : 6.5 yards
Nothing much going on in the quilting area lately. My dad has been in the hospital so I have been dealing with that (even though he is in Houston) and family drama. He is stable right now, but still in ICU.
I hope to get back to sewing tomorrow – today is for getting my house back in order since the kids went back to school on Tuesday. Saturday, my bee has a get-together and I need to get stuff together for that.
I am still waiting on the rest of my backing fabric to get here from ordering it so I can work on my Home for the Holidays quilt. I am anxious to get my plastic clothes pins so that I can finish cutting out my Frosted Windowpanes quilt.
Yes. I did it. I started another project.
I got my Frosted Windowpanes quilt kit in the mail yesterday and couldn’t even pause long enough to take a picture of the kit before I broke into it. I told myself I was just going to look at the pattern to see how difficult it was. I would just look at all the different fabrics to make sure they were all there. Then I would just sort them into colors instead of being mixed up.
Yea. Ok.
At 5pm I was cutting into it. By 8 pm (and had to pause to cook dinner and eat) – I have 40 3″ 9-patch blocks.
Nancy has chosen a number for the UFO Challenge – Number 4.
That one for me is my “Home for the Holidays” quilt.
Home for the Holidays was a quilt that was started from the 2007 Fall Patchwork Party. I didn’t like any of the finishing kits, so I was going to design my own when I bought additional fabrics. I never got around to it and thought all was lost because you couldn’t find the fabrics any longer. They then came out with an additional line of fabric which matched the original line. I bought some of it and then did a simple setting.
This quilt has to have the backing pieced – I have some fatquarters that I bought as an “oops kit” to finish in case I made a mistake. I will cut large squares out and piece them together randomly to make the back. I already have the batting cut out. I have to sandwich, quilt and bind the quilt to finish it.