What bliss! I’ve been sewing every single day this week! I have now finished 58 patriotic blocks, and I made a second recycled bath mat. I also did some mending, cut out a pair of pyjamas for my little girl and started basting a lap quilt that’s been waiting in my stack of UFO tops.
My Grandmother’s Flower Garden blocks have also seen the light of day this week. There are many more flowers than I remembered!
When I was playing with all the little flowers yesterday, I fell in love with this project all over again. It really would be nice to finish it into something useful and/or decorative instead of smushing it back into that shoebox for another 14 years. 😉
I’ve been having difficulty doing hand sewing lately because of arthritis in my thumb, but I despair at abandoning this project, so I’ve come up with a plan! If I work on it for 15 minutes at a time just a few days a week, I could probably make fairly good progress over the course of a year. I’ll put this at the top of my Goals List for 2011.
For my Stash Report, here is some new fabric from America. I bought this set of 7 hand-dyed fat quarters from my Internet friend Vicki. Aren’t the colours pretty?
Here are my totals:
Bought this week: 1.75
Bought year-to-date: 24 yards
Gift fabric received: 30 yards
Total fabric in: 54 yards
Used this week: .75 yards
Used year-to-date: 34.5 yards
Total (net): -19.50
Please visit Judy’s blog to see how other quilters are getting along with their stashbusting this week.
Happy Quilting!
Your Grandmother’s Flower Garden blocks are so beautiful! The hand-dyes are gorgeous. I like your plan for accomplishing your goals by breaking it down into manageable moments. I have arthritis in my right hand so tend to switch from cutting, to sewing by machine, to knitting and then back again to give myself a rest. Aren’t we lucky to have so many interests and ways to get them done! Have a great week.
I love those hand dyed fabrics. Now you have to make something with them or have them languish in your stash for several years. I can’t wait to see what you’re going to make with them.
I hope they don’t go into your “too good to cut” category…. Speaking of that, I need to get back on my TGTC project. It is in the flimsy stage, it needs to move onto the quiling stage!
You’ve been really busy this week! I love Vicky’s fabric too!
I want to start a hexagon project too but I haven’t been working on my applecore very much so I’m holding off a while. I’d really like to finish one before starting another!
I’ve got a couple of Vicki’s fat quarter sets too…they’re very nice aren’t they?
I like the idea of recycling the bath mat. Keep up the great job with the Grandmother flower garden, mine is waiting to be hand quilted.