I’m still playing along with Judy L’s stash-busting Sundays, and tracking what fabric gets used and what fabric I buy. It’s been an eye-opener for me this year. I agree with the comments I’ve had that you can have success without reaching your goal. I have to admit that it’s very unlikely that I will be anywhere near my goal of using 75 yards this year.
This week I bought a wonderful roll of Civil War reproduction fabrics. There are twenty-two 6 1/2″ x 22″ pieces. You don’t find an assortment like this very often (or ever!), and I couldn’t resist for a small scrappy project. Calculates out to be 2.25 yards of CW reproduction goodness purchased this week.
I took the .5 yard of peach I bought last week back out of stash and it’s going to be the backing and binding on the little 20″ x 16″ applique I’m doing for class. I can’t wait to show it to you tomorrow. I can applique!!! It’s turning out beautifully, and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. It was so worth taking a class I don’t have time for and doing a wall hanging I don’t need to learn Pam’s techniques. If you live in the Twin Cities, you might want to look at Quilt Cove’s classes for next quarter (Jan-Feb-Mar) and check out Achievable Applique. Picture coming on Design Wall Monday.
I also used 1.25 yards of fall fabrics to make a small table topper / candle mat for our guild’s crayon challenge (we each pulled two crayons out of a bag and the challenge is to make something with those two colors. Mine was almost too easy — orange and yellow). Photo tomorrow on the Design Wall. 1.75 total yards used this week.
I’ve learned a lot about how much fabric I actually use in a year. I would never have guessed it’s this much. Of course, I wouldn’t have guessed that I buy as much as I do either! I’ve really made an effort to use fabric in my stash, and so a good portion of what I’ve purchased this year is new stash. In that light, even though my stash is likely to stay around the same amount, it has improved! I have a lot of lovely new fabric on my shelves (in addition to some fabric that is still properly aging to perfection).
–Sue
isn’t it neat to follow your stash progress for the year? it amazes me how much I have and think I don’t have enough at times. I realize now that I have enough stash to make lots and lots of quilts without buying one piece of fabric.
You are tempting me to keep track of fabric purchases. I don’t have a “stash” any longer, as very limited space in an RV, but it still sounds tempting. Will see how it goes! And congrats to Bertha, in your project. Go get em, girl!
that looks like a very good roll of fabric. can’t wait to see what it becomes, but i know that it will be nice.
I wouldn’t be able to resist civil war repros either! You are practicing “stash rotation”–a GOOD thing. Old stash going out, some new coming in!