Stash Report week 9

I have worked on my color challenge quilt this week but it is not finished so I won't count it until next week .  My stash report for this week is pretty boring.  I hope to sew this afternoon and finish the color challenge quilt.   I have to go to the fairgrounds and pick up all the quilts that I entered in the creative arts division of the San Angelo Stock Show and after that I have to go to a house warming of a co-worker and then I can sew!  The weather is beautiful here with the birds singing, I think spring is just around the corner.  " Sew" long for now.

Week number- 9

Used this week- 0 yards

Used this year- 15.75 yards

Purchased this week- 0 yards

Purchased this year- 23 Yards

Gifted to others-0

Gifted to me- 7 yards

Recycled clothes- 5 yards

Total  Stash  - 19.75 Yards

Design Wall Monday 2-20-2012

I am still trying to recover, unpack and do the laundry after being gone for 4 days to the Brownwood quilt retreat.  My design wall actually has the same thing on it that I posted last week so I am showing a quilt that I made at the retreat that just needs the outside border and then it will be ready to quilt.

 Today is a school holiday so I get to spend the day with my 9 year old niece.   She went with me to quilt this morning followed by a trip to Hancock.  This afternoon I need to clean and she is going to work on scrapbooks.  She is so creative and it is fun to see what she comes up with.  The weather in West Texas is beautiful today so there may be a walk in our afternoon plans.  Sew long for now.

Stash Report week 8

I just got home from a retreat in Brownwood sponsored by Judy of Patchwork Times.com.  We had a wonderful time and did lot of sewing so my stash was going down some until.... we went to the quilt store in Santa Anna ( twice) and saw the wonderful sales she was having.  Who can pass up quilting fabric for $4.00 a yard?  Not me!! I finished 3 quilt tops and have only counted the fabric in the top I will count the back after I get them quilted.  I have to go unpack and start my laundry, "sew" long for now.

Week number- 8

Used this week- 12.75 yards

Used this year- 15.75 yards

Purchased this week- 20yards

Purchased this year- 23 Yards

Gifted to others-0

Gifted to me- 7 yards

Recycled clothes- 5 yards

Total  Stash  - 19.75 Yards

Design wall Monday

Oh my goodness has this been a Monday!  Usually I start Monday out by hand quilting at the church and then go to Weight Watchers and have the afternoon to do what I want to do.  Well, today I had to work until 12:30 so that I can be off on Thursday and Friday to go to Brownwood for a quilt retreat put on by Judy Laquidara.  I texted my sweet Husband and suggested that we go eat lunch out today since tomorrow and Wednesday would be crazy days for us.  If I was going to eat , I would have to go to Weight Watchers and weigh in first.  I went in weighed came back out and my car wouldn't start.  So after 4 hours of working on the car and going to lunch my car is back home and I am just getting around to do my design wall report.  I worked on my color challenge blocks which is also Judy's Rolling Along quilt.  I take pictures with my phone so the color is not true.  Time to upgrade my camera.... too late now, money went to a new battery for my car! 

We have a winner!

The results for our local Rodeo and Stock Show Creative Arts division were announced this week and I am proud to be among the winners.  I will have to post pictures when I get all of the quilts back, for some reason I don't have pictures of some of them.  I won a 1st  in men's clothing, I made my husband a bright orange Hawaiian shirt from  fabric I  bought  when we were in Hawaii last summer.  I won a 3rd place on a Christmas table runner in the holiday decorations category, a 2nd in the baby quilts, 2nd in  machine pieced -hand quilted, a 2nd and 3rd in the machine pieced-machine quilted category ( funny story, I got my sister in law into quilting a few years back and she beat me with a first.... maybe I am a better teacher than a quilter!). I had 7 entries and won 6 ribbons!!  In addition to my ribbons and the ribbon my sister in law won, my 9 year old niece entered 4 Lego displays and won a ribbon on each one ( 2nd,  2 3rds and a 4th and she is getting a special award for creativity).  I would say we are a pretty creative bunch, now if we can only get my brother and nephew to enter the cooking competition , no telling how many ribbons we would have!

Stash Report Week 7

I have been working on my color challenge this week but nothing is finished so I will not count it yet.  I am getting ready to go to the quilting retreat in Brownwood that Judy Laquidara of Patchwork Times is putting on.  My sister-in-law, 2 friends and I will be going Thursday - Sunday.  I should have lots of changes in my post next week.  This week all my counts have stayed the same.  I have to do some cleaning this afternoon, finish knitting a prayer shawl and will work on my color challenge blocks so I can have something to show on my design wall tomorrow.  "Sew" long for now.

Week number- 7

Used this week- 0 yards

Used this year- 3 yards

Purchased this week- 0 yards

Purchased this year- 3 Yards

Gifted to others-0

Gifted to me- 7 yards

Recycled clothes- 5 yards

Total  Stash  - 12 Yards

No Waste Flying Geese

 Jo at  Jo's Country Junction  is starting a new feature on Tuesday, Try it Tuesday.  She is encouraging you to try something new whether it be in sewing, a restaurant or a book.  I tried a new way to make flying geese this week.  I am making the Rolling Along quilt on Judy's Patchwork Times blog.  It calls for flying geese that are finished at 1 1/4 X 2 1/2 .  Judy did not give measurements, she just said use your favorite method.  My favorite method is using the Eleanor Burns rulers but there was not a ruler fitting these measurements.  So I went to my best friend... Google for help.  I found this site http://schools.utah.gov/cte/documents/facs/conference/S04/CT_FlyingGeese.pdf  and what I liked about her geese was the chart with the measurements but I also like the way she made the geese.  I had very little trimming to square up the geese.  I was very pleased.  Look at my block in my post yesterday, I used the flying geese there.  " Sew" long for now.