Success & Progress!

 A busy week past and another to begin!

Remember my deadline a few weeks ago?

Well, I finished with days to spare!! Yay me!

It turned out beautifully and the label is a copy 

of the wedding invitation.  

I like to add it to wedding quilts, 

since the invites are beautiful and we usually either don't 

keep them or look at them after the big day. 

Angling the corners of labels has been 

working out very well and decrease the frustration

felt when I tried to push out the corners. 

It makes the labels a bit more interesting too!

This could be the beginning of something, 

duplicate quilts every time?  Two for the price of one? 

Twins?  I think not!!! It was almost the same amount of work 

but the scrap piles only had to be com-piled  

(see what I did there) once!

There were piles everywhere!

This did instigate a little organizing of bits and 

squares of the rainbow colors. The separated colors worked

 

very well for finishing up the stash buster quilt tops!

So the stash report had a big boost today !!

I managed to finish up binding on a third quilt so I 

can adjust my numbers!

Here is how I count my progress:

baby size-  3 meters

twin size- 6 meters

Queen size- 11

So, since I finished 1 twin sized quilt, 

and 2 queen sized quilts, I can add 27 meters to 

my fabric used this year!!! Woot woot for me!

So that will make the stash report this week :

Fabric Purchased: 0 m

Used since last report  27 m 

Fabric In to date: 25.5 m

Use to date 2024 : 69 m

Scraps in : 2 m

Scraps out : 0 m

Big Batch donation : 60 m (June) 

Net Fabric in YTD:  3 m

I did have a lovely lunch date today and 

as often happens, I received a nice bag of 

scraps !  That will add a bit to the total in 

but wowzer, I do love scraps!

They are all ready cut into strips and ready for stitching! 

Have a great week!

Linking up with : 

Stash Report

Design Wall Monday

Sew & Tell

Monday Musing 

Salon Pit Stop

To Do Tuesday 

Midweek Makers

Wait Loss Wednesday

Put Your Foot Down

Needle & Thread Thursday

Free Motion Mavericks

Finished or Not Friday

Design Wall Friday 

Friday Nite Sew In

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Patchwork & Quilts

Quilts and My History

 Labels, labels, labels.  We get reminded 

always to label our quilts but lately I 

find I only label who receives the quilts,

not who made the quilt ,where ,why ,basically 

the five w s that provide the whole history.

Everyone has their own way of recording 

progress thru life and on our quilting road. 

My BB has a detailed sheet on each of 

her creations.  A newly minted quilter

was so ambitious, he was labeling each 

of his with a lifetime number!!

My most prolific quilting buddy and also 

my morning walking partner, sends her 

many donation quilt out to spread joy by 

labeling them "Love From" with her name

written on a corner triangle. 

My quilts get a label when they are given, 

no real label when they are donated and 

the ones I keep are labeled when I am forced 

to label them for a show.  

Recently on the Stash Buster page, I saw one

that had a number for this year,  "Quilt 16".

I think that might be doable for me. 

Little iron on labels are now going 

on my donation quilts:

My excel tracking sheet is getting to seem like just 

another chore and I'd much rather be sewing than 

tracking which quilts need what.  My UFO s should be

moving, or aging and becoming delightful surprise to 

be discovered as a treasure on a snowy winter day. 

A rethink has made me come up with a few more small 

iron labels of my own. 

Here is a starter list:

a quilt name, maker, year and location made.

a small iron on when the quilt is in a show,

 

maybe even a label if displayed at a guild 

(could prevent the opps I showed it again  problem!)

Have great week and label everything!