More buying this week than busting. I didn’t sew at all until Saturday when I sewed all day with my girlfriends in my bee.
Week 6
Purchased:
Home for the Holidays – Backing 1 yard
Borders for Jelly Roll Mystery 2 yards
Background for Pineapples 3 yards
Week Total 6 yards
YTD Total 23.5 yards
Used:
Neptune Quilt – inner borders 0.5 yard
Neptune Quilt – piano key border 0.25 yard
Week Total 0.75 yards
YTD Total 26.25 yards
There was nothing in or out this week. The fabric I ordered last week still hasn’t arrived. The whole house was down with a cold, so no sewing this week really. I did go to a guild workshop yesterday for making fabric postcards for our quilt show to sell.
So on to the numbers:
Used: 0 yards
Used YTD: 25.5 yards
Purchased: 0 yards
Purchased YTD: 17.5 yards
Net: – 8 yards YTD
(AKA – State of the Stash, Week 4)
This week I didn’t purchase anything (well, I did, but it hasn’t arrived yet to the stash, so it doesn’t count until it gets here – it was also 1 yard so that I could finish the backing of a quilt). I have also had a gift certificate to one of my LQS’s and it hasn’t been used yet – I am so proud of myself.
This week, I busted 16.5 yards. Yep… you read that right, 16.5 yards!
Here is a summary:
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That brings my year-to-date total up to:
Purchased: 17.5 yards
Used: 25.5 yards
Net: – 8 yards
WOOT!!!
Oh- I added a new page – “State of the Stash” – it embeds my Google Spreadsheet for my Stash accountability sheet.
Um… yea. No sewing going on this week. I did cut out several BOM blocks on Tuesday, but they are not sewn together, so they don’t count as being busted yet.
I did get 3 charm packs of Eden in the mail so I do have additions to report.
Purchased:
Total Purchased This Week – 2 yards
Total Purchased Year to Date – 17.5 yards
Used:
Total Used This Week – 0 yards
Total Used Year to Date – 9 yards
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