Fabric, fabric everywhere!

 

Wow, I see this year is 

really slipping away from us!

I am finally ready to make a sash report.

My goal was to not buy any fabric,

but I did end up with 2 m purchased for

donation into a raffle basket for the quilt show.

Does that even count?

I also ended up with about 2 m of free fabric

 from the give and take table at retreat.

It's teally ambiance was just too much for me to resist.

So my total for the year so far:

Fabric Purchased: 2 m

Fabric In to date: 4 m

Used to date 2024 : 2 m donation

                                           6 m twin log cabin

Scraps in : .5 m

Scraps out : 0   m

Net Fabric In:  -1.5 m

I've more stash than I can actually count 

so this year's goal is to:

Sew it up, quilt it down or pass it on.

Sure sounds good to me!

Now, what to do with these buttons!

Stay safe and so on!

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Sea Glass is Rolling

 This found quilt is taking up a lot 

room on the design wall.

Last week's layering created a big wind and

took most of my laid out design down. 

Back up and working, it is about at the halfway mark.

The first corner finished up was

really a boost in enthusiasm!

It was lost in the archives for years

so any bit of progress is a finish!

Getting back to it after the Log Cabin finish,

 brought to light a few variations,

and you know how I love variations!

It turns out that I started my rows with the 

wrong colour squares. That calls for just a little bit of reworking

of the layout for other rows. It also makes it difficult to 

work from the lower right corner, 

without making the same mistake again.

It  seems that there are a different number

of rows across the quilt from one side to the other! 

That will result in either another added or 

one taken away somewhere. This is definitely turning to

 a little bit of an adventure.

I guess that's a bit predictable because 

sea glass rolls all over the ocean before it 

ends up on a beach to be admired.

Wish me luck and calm currents

while I finish up this greeny-blue beauty.

Updated!

Here it is all finished and ready!

It is in Scrap Basket Beauties by Kim Brackett

Stay safe and sew on !

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Tower of Power

Organization is so empowering!
I was gifted a big tower of drawers.

            It precipitated a reorganizing of the sewing room. 

           The question for now is to what to put in the drawers.

               I think I will reevaluate the chunk piles

       that I have in my stash closet. My BB

recently took all her chunks and

cut them into workable strips,

and I think that might be the direction I am headed.

To start off, though, I'm getting projects ready for a retreat.

The chunks will move to the top of the list

if I get done with that.

My most popular size of scrap is 2 1/2".

I used up a goodly supply last year making

the stash buster Irish Chains.

There are still copious amounts of strips remaining.

Organization is great, but I feel that being

organized won't help you get anything done if

you don't spend time in the sewing room.

One particular blogger I follow, Kate over at

Life in Pieces

encourages us to track how much time we spend sewing.

A small goal will encourage us

all to make some time to get some stitching done. 

When we do that we often find that getting a little

stitching is good for our soul and ours psyche.

I think I will sort some more chunks

by color to ease up some of the stress

in my sewing room.

The center section is already color sorted,

but the two sections to the sides are

a jumble of recently acquired chunks from various sources.

I'll also may start storing 2 1/2 inch strips by color.

It would make for easier and

tidier set up when I'm ready to sew.

I will let it happen organically when

I'm working on projects.

Stay safe and sew on

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