Busy Quilty Weekend!

The weekend started off with a bang!

I have some fun new items!

First I was gifted with a box of beautiful scraps!

She'd saved them just for me!  

Even more  fun is I had a visiting friend!  Yay! 

We spent a lovely quilty afternoon looking at 

projects, organizing them, sewing a chatting, 

so great. Then off to hang a quilt show!  It was a 

great way to get up close and personal with some 

beautiful work and get inspired. So many talented

quilters willing to share their work.

To our delight, our friend of many years,

 got to hang her Dutch Treat.

Many, many finely hand pieced blocks, 

a real  "Treat" to see!

The vendors market was another stop on the day and I found this

lovely case for my traveling feather weight! 

I have tried many generic bags and I always

 ended up holding both the 

case and the bag as I didn't trust the straps. Now I can go off 

to classes and sew days safely and confident 

nothing will crash to the ground!

 The small but mighty scrap ruler was 

my second purchase and really handy for trimming. 

As for the stash, it was well served also! 

1 box of scraps in for 2 meters, (lots of chunks) 

but I had finished up 

a twin sized binding so that is 6m out so 

I am still on the good side for now!

2023 STASH TOTALS

            Used last week:     6 m 1 quilt softer granny squares

Used year to date:       29  m

                                      Scraps out               0 m    

                                   (1 bag=/.5 k=.5m)  

                                      Scraps In                  2  m chunky box full

Added last week:          2 m

                                  Year to date:            43 m bolt 27m bucket batiks 15m

Net added in 2023          19.5 meter

Will I get to net zero this year ?  We shall see!

Till then stay safe and sew on!

Linking up with :

Friday Nite with Friends

Sunday Stash report 

Stashbusters

Midweek Makers

To Do Here Already!?

Tuesday again!  So soon!

I got a bit done over the week and 

had a lot of fun when I wasn't getting things done!

Great big quilt show with shopping, 

lots of ideas cooking, guild wind up and 

visiting friends!  Last week's plan was here, 

let's see what I completed!

~Finish up the green log blocks Done!

    ~ Assemble 2 green log cabin tops To Do

              ~Trim out the work box of orange scraps To do

               ~ Make up 2 - 5x5 blocks: 1 orange 1 green To do

            ~ Plant the last pumpkins in the big tub Done!

I did get a few off the list!  

Here are some beautiful pumpkin plants. I don't do

a garden since my yard is over shadowed by pines and they 

produce too much acid for good veggie gardening.  The pumpkins 

are an experiment. We will see if or what we get!

They certainly love the sunlight!

Here is my big stack of greens!

Enough to stitch up into 2 nice twin sized tops,

130 blocks total . 

Lots of catch up for this week and lots of new

ideas to try!  Summer sewing room is going into play

too so up to the kitchen  I sew!

Oh look , an extra, green log cabin block!

Stay safe and sew on !

Linking up with :

To Do Tuesday!

15 Minutes to Stitch