Wednesday, January 7, 2015

2014 stash report

I did a better job this year keeping tabs of my stash additions and subtractions. I am not out to accomplish anything is particular by doing this, but I find it interesting and I may learn something about myself from knowing this info. This year the stash increased by 224 yards with 18 yards of fabric that I won and 6 yards of fabric that was given to me. In the 22 finishes for 2014 I used 173.5 yards which leaves me with a gain of 50.5 yards. On this note, here are some pictures of my stash.

This section holds my bolts of whites, music fabric, linens, stacks sorted by color, and African Dutch wax. Way up on top are boxes with patterns, interfacing, Velcro, elastic, and scraps. To the left is my brother's wool quilt and it is sitting on top of three containers of scraps.

I keep my precuts that I have won on the window sill.

Here I keep the box of Velcro and elastic I use for making covers, some clothing fabric, hand dyes, flannels, rolls of drapery lining, car cover fabric, duvetine, and vinyl. On the floor in front of the shelving unit are my three cases of Sulky rayon thread. I use to machine quilt most of my quilts with Sulky rayon - not so much anymore.

In this section are my UFO's, more hand dyes in the white box, scraps in the small Rubbermaid boxes, FQ's in the black boxes and the Rubbermaid box they are sitting on, Halloween fabric, red and yellow fabrics (for a quilt someday!), and to the right a box of vintage fabrics with backing and batting scraps sitting on top.

In the closet I have 10 yard bolts of fusible interfacing for t-shirt quilts, large yardages of fabric on hangers, my small stash of finished baby quilts, stacks of finished quilts, and the storage containers with my son's old clothes, vintage fabric, wools, and fancy fabrics like silk and tulle.

Under the desk are two more boxes of scraps with more scraps on top of the blue container and the wool batting for my brother's wool quilt.

So that is my stash. I do have other sewing related items in another closet like zippers, lace, trims, etc and my rolls of batting are in the guest bedroom.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

UFO's with Vicki

UFO2015

I work on trying to complete all my UFO's every year, but I still have a lot to do. Vicki at Field Trips in Fiber is having a UFO busting event for 2015. I spent Sunday cleaning up my fabric storage room and recording my UFO's. Vicki is counting non-quilting items as well as quilting projects so I added some sewing projects that have been needing to get done. Here is my list so far. I think I have listed the worst of it! Us participants are to post on her website once a month our progress. I will be printing out my list and hanging in my studio so if I find that I need something to do I can go look at the list. With 40 items on my list I wonder how many I will get done by Dec. 31, 2015?

1. Done 1/12/15 82.25 x 91.25My niece's t-shirt graduation quilt - in progress. This top was pin basted at the end of 2013.

2.Done 1/24/15 37.75 x 49Baby quilt 38 1/2" x 50" This top was done 4/15/2014

3. Amish diamond 42" square I made this many years ago

4. My one and only convergence quilt. 44" x 43" Done April 2015I made this a number of years ago

5. Hand dyed striped quilt 74" x 85" When I was cleaning up on 1/4/2015 I found this quilt and had forgotten that I had not finished quilting all the black stripes.

6. Done 1/26/15 35 x 46Blue & white log cabin - baby quilt

7. Drunkard Path Flannel 84" x106" Done 9/21/15

8. Small quilt 42" w x 41" from the challenge earlier this year that didn't get picked

9. Log Cabin quilt - this is the second large quilt I had pieced. I had started to hand quilt this and it kept getting pushed aside. After two moves and several home remodels, the quilt was filthy and back then I used the batting that was available - polyester. I took out the hand quilting, washed the top and back, and plan to machine quilt this. This is my oldest UFO - 30+ years - and yes, I am going to get 'er done!

10. Improv musical quilt - queen sized - I have started quilting this, but had to put is aside.

11. Log cabin hand dyed fabric - look at the date - 2010! I don't remember the challenge I made this for, but I am way pass the entry date for sure!

12. Black and white star top - queen sized

13. done 2/5/15 Improv baby quilt 42" x 57.5"

14. done 2/12/15Pinwheel baby quilt

15. Blue and tan log cabin - this is partially hand quilted and has polyester batting. I am going to remove the hand quilting, replace the batting, and machine quilt.

16. Wedding ring quilt for a friend - needs some major TLC!

17. Tea towel quilt

18. T-shirt quilt - Done 10-31-15this is my son's quilt that I took apart to repair and re-quilt.

19. Hockey flannel quilt for my son 81" x 89"

20.. Soccer boy 54 1/2 x 73" I may put a border on this one to make it a bit wider.

21. Scrap black and green 34" x 52" Done 10/27/15this one is partially hand and machine quilted. It has been in this state for years!

22. Maple leaf 78" x 102" the blocks were made by the late sister of a neighbor I had in Dover. I put together the top, because the neighbor does not sew.

23. Danks 90" x 99" this is a young fellow I work with. I made this as a housewarming gift. He and his long time girlfriend have been in their house for 3 years! Up date: they have now been in their house for 5 years and are now married! I need to get this done!

24. Red dog 54" x 65"

25. Done 4/13/15 Cobbles 38" x 49"

26. Red lips 30" x 43"

27. Done November 27, 2015floral 16 patch. I started this 4 or 5 years ago and have no particular plans on what size quilt this will be

28. Done November 2015pink zig zag strips - this could be enough for two quilts. I guess I will find out once I get these sewn together!

29. pre-cut baby quilt. Done 11-9-15I started this several years ago and I am not sure where I was going with this. I guess I will figure it out! I did at least attached a drawing of the block I was originally planning on making.

30. Art museum t-shirt piece. All I need to do is finish up the hand quilting with pearl cotton. This has been sitting around for at least 4 years.

31. Leftover flannel - see the dark green strips laying on top? I found those in my big clean up yesterday! I needed some more solid colored flannel so I am glad I found them!

32. Homespun - this is the remaining fabric from making 4 donation tops in 2014. This will be the end of the homespun in my stash.

33. wool quilt - this quilt was put on hold until my brother could get me the measurements he wanted the quilt to be to fit his bunk on the tour bus.

34. DP solid quilt

35. a pile of socks that need small holes mended Done 10/25/15

36. a pair of pj's that I need to alter for my girlfriend. They belonged to her late husband. He passed away 3 years ago Jan. 2. I need to get these done.

37. Living room drapes

38. guest room curtains

39. African fabric cut. These pieces have been sitting here for quite a while. Let's not even talk about the yardage I have!

40. Done 8/23/15hard rock/heavy metal t-shirt quilt. These are the shirts I have collected so far for this project, but I need more! I have to have a Led Zepplin, AC/DC, Ozzy, and Black Sabbath shirt for this quilt for sure!

Monday, January 5, 2015

T-shirt quilt progress

I worked on my niece's t-shirt quilt over the holidays. I have enjoyed working on this quilt! I do have to change thread colors a lot, but that keeps it interesting! It looks like I am about 3/4 the way done with the quilting on this. My first finish for 2015 will be happening soon!


I did a lot of cleaning up while I was off. I gathered up my UFO's for Vicki's of Field Trips in Fiber's UFO busting 2015 event. I put most of them on this shelving unit.


I gathered up all my Halloween fabric. I still have a lot even after making four quilts and this pile doesn't include the fabric I have hanging in the closet.

I got the desk in the fabric storage room cleared off a bit.

I found a stack of patches from my son's t-shirt quilt on a table in the studio and found another stack on the desk. So now they are all together with the quilt for when I get to fixing and quilt this quilt again.

Now that the studio and fabric storage room are vacuumed and in good order I believe I can be more productive. It is nice not to be tripping over stuff!

Working in a series

Working In A Series

I am joining Vicki's Working in a Series group. http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com/field_trips_in_fiber/page/2/ I have been collecting linen for a number of years and that is what I will be using. Here is my shelf of linen fabric. I also have a couple of pairs of men's linen pants that I will be using too.