Archive for July, 2009
July 28th, 2009 - I’m Back
And I bought soooo much fabric but none of it is for the stash. Well maybe a little bit. I found lots of great deals and some not so great deals. The only stash fabric is 8Â yards of flannel that I like to keep on hand for comfort quilts. I can never seem to find any nice flannels here.
Fabric added this week:38.65 yds
Fabric added ytd: 172.11 yds
Fabric used this week: 10.6 yds
Fabric used ytd: 133.68 yds
Net fabric busted: -38.43 yds
I managed to make a few things when I was at my sister’s house. I bought some projects but only worked on one of them. I made 2 quilt tops and a table runner. I will post some pics in the next post.
Happy stitching
Mary-Kay
July 19th, 2009 - Stash Report Week #29
This is going to be a fast report. I’m about to leave for the week  to visit family in Charlevoix, MI.
Fabric added this week: 00000000
Fabric added ytd: 133.46 yds
Fabric used this week: 8.48 yds
Fabric used ytd: 123.08 yds
Net fabric busted: -10.38 yds
 I hope that I don’t buy too much fabric this week. I know that there is a quilt shop in town and I know that I’m going to buy something. Maybe I’ll just buy it for gifts. I don’t think so!
Have a great week and I’ll see you all next week. There will be lots of catching up to do. Lucky for me I’m off for 4 weeks.Yeah!!!
Mary-Kay
July 13th, 2009 - What I Bought
…was a lot of fabric. None was really for the stash except the bolt of black.
 A new pattern, “Strip Search”. I saw this and I thought it would make some great comfort quilts from the 2.5″ strips that I have been saving.
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     A vintage Halloween stitchery that has a ball fringe. It seems kind of retro rather than vintage but I love all the Crab-apple Hill patterns.
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 So I had to buy this one too. “Twas The Night Before Christmas” I’m going to have quite a collection of their patterns and when they are all completed, they will be so beautiful. Of course, it might take me a few years. But at least I can look at the pattern and imagine them all finished.
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 And here’s some blah looking flannel for the back of 3 comfort quilts. The reason I say it’s blah is the colour of it. I am not a brown person. I like black way better so I bought a bolt of it!
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This is a really nice fish print that I’m going to use for a comfort quilt. I have some homespuns that will match up nicely with this and I think the intended recipient is going to love it.
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 And finally this tan coloured fabric. I am making a comfort quilt for a scout leader who is ill and I thought that I could get all the kids in his scout troup to sign a block and somehow arrange them around this campy panel. The other scout leaders in this group thought it was a great idea. Now all I have to do is cut it into 6.5″ squares and send it off to camp. I guess the kids are going to do it as part of their scout trip. I think the leader is going to love it.
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  Well I’m off to cut up fabric and use up some of this newly acquired fabric so it doesn’t go in my stash.
Happy quilting.
Mary-Kay
July 12th, 2009 - Stash Report Week #28
 Okay, so I’m now in the negatives. I feel like I cheated on a diet. But of the 34.25 yards that I purchased, 12 yards are for 3 comfort quilt backings, 2 yards are for a signature quilt, 3 yards are for a themed quilt and .25 yards is a BOM. The biggie purchase was the bolt of black that I got for 25% off and then I had a $25 coupon that I was itching to use. I do use a lot of plain black in my quilts so it’s not really “just because I liked it” buy. I’m sure I’ll be using that up and purchasing more before the year end. Now if only I could finish the roman shades for my mother and get them off my cutting table I would be really happy.
Fabric added this week: 34.25 yds
Fabric added ytd: 133.46 yds
Fabric used this week: 0 yds
Fabric used ytd: 114.6 yds
Net fabric busted: -18.86 yds
Have a great sewing week.
Mary-Kay
July 7th, 2009 - Wendy, It’s For You
Yup, that’s right. Wendy from Truly Materialistic commented that she didn’t see the finished quilt “Mum’s The Word”. I have the backing but I have to think about the way I would like to quilt it. It’s not a gift or anything like that so time is not an issue. Here it is…..
 I was thinking of quilting in the half-square setting triangles a feathered wreath ( boy, the spelling of that seems weird) and then outline quilting around the plates and something around the yo-yo in the center of the plate and I don’t know what else.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 I have a few comfort quilts to quilt and a few more to make. Then I can possibly start on this quilt. Maybe I’ll win some moolah and I won’t have to work and I can be a stay-at-home quilter. Yeah right!
Have a great week.
Mary-Kay
July 5th, 2009 - Stash Report Week #27
 I finally started on my Mother’s blinds. I only have the center sections cut out but have had no time to lay it out and start sewing it all together. Hopefully this week I won’t be sew busy and I’ll actually get something done.
Fabric added this week: 0 yds
Fabric added ytd: 99.21 yds
Fabric used this week: 3.44 yds
Fabric used ytd: 114.6 yds
Net fabric busted: 15.39 yds
Now if I can manage to not buy any fabric this week, I’ll be very happy. But I do have a BOM that I might go and get this week. And hopefully I can walk out of the store with only the BOM but I also have a $25 coupon that I can’t seem to spend. I’m always thinking fabric when I can spend on anything in the store….books, magazines or the latest gadgets. Hmmm……….
Have a great week.
Mary-Kay