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Stash-Busting Report

21 June 2009, 1:40 pm

No change this week:

  • YTD 123.5 yards out
  • YTD 139.00 yards in
  • YTD Net:  15.5 yards IN   (booo!)
  • YTD Goal:  75 yards out (still 90.5 yards away from my goal)

    • A customer quilt was delivered this week; Pat & Patrick’s wedding quilt was delivered to them, so I can show a couple of pictures of their Irish Chain quilt.  It’s an extra-long queen — 98 x 118 (actually that was before quilting, so I’m sure it quilted up a little smaller).  I made it from Eleanor Burns’ book.  She offers two options for borders:  an easy border and a seminole pieced border.  In one of those what-was-I-thinking moments, I chose the seminole border.  I love the look, but the borders were pretty much like making another whole quilt.  I like it though, and I think it was worth the extra time.  I decided to do an all-over panto, and I like the look of Jodi Beamish’s (Willow Creek Studio Designs) Daisy Swirl on large open spaces.  It has a nice distribution of quilting vs spaces, not too open/not too tight.

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    I’m trying to be more organized in my blog posts and do specific reports or subject matters for each day of the week.  My plan is as follows:

    1. Sunday — Stash Report (Judy L at Patchwork Times hosts)
    2. Monday — Design Wall Report (Judy hosts this one too)
    3. Tuesday — Bird Photos (my best bird photos from the past week, if I have any; otherwise, I will “wing” it!)
    4. Wednesday — Photo Puzzle Day (I may be the only one that likes these, but since it’s my blog, they stay)
    5. Thursday — UFO Thursday (something new starting Thursday – a support group for those of us that have waaaaay too many UnFinished Objects or PhDs (Projects half Done) of the quilting sort languishing in boxes, bags, and closets.  You know who you are!!!  If you felt the least pang of guilt reading about it, come back Thursday.)
    6. Friday — Photo Friday (I’ll keep this going until I exhaust my limited bag of tricks)
    7. Saturday — Week in Review (both quilty and non-quilty topics)

    That’s my plan!  I hope there is something there that is interesting to you, because I would love to have you stop back again! 

    Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.  Missing my own dad today, who was taken from us much too soon, ten years ago last month. 

    –Sue

    Filed under Quilting, Stash Busting Sunday.
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