Stash Report #7

My favorite bird in our forrest are the woodpeckers. Every morning I throw a couple of cups of peanuts out for them. Of course all the other birds come for the treat, but I do it just for the chance of seeing the woodpeckers. Try as I might to get pictures, they are gone by the time I can zoom in and focus. Here are the woodpeckers I saw on Thursday morning - pictures from the internet....

  

red bellied                           downey                               pileated

Even though the Nuthatch isn't a woodpecker, he does go up and down the trees just like a woodpecker does and they are fun to watch.

I am joining in with Judy's Stash Report..

Best as I can remember these blocks were made about 4-6 years ago.

I don't remember what I was going to do with these. It appears that I planned some sort of coin quilt. They must have been in really long rows and I had already taken them apart into six strips.  Decided it was time to get them out of the drawer and into a quilt. I had 80 blocks and needed 81, luckily a friend recently made a quilt with this type of fabrics and she sent me 6 strips so I could make the last block. It took me longer to come up with a pattern and do the math than it did to sew all the blocks together! I paired the blocks with this light purple color

I am keeping this quilt. It is about 99 inches square. It kinda reminds me of Easter eggs, bright and happy.

Read more about this week's baby quilt here...

This week's Tula Pink's blocks - this is going to be one interesting quilt! Such fun blocks to make.

This is the setting Bill likes. To make this quilt big enough for our bed - abt 100 inches square - I will need to make 120 blocks. This pattern only uses 64 of the blocks.

I also like this pattern as it focuses on each unique block. Not sure what color I will use in place of the green...maybe green!

Added this week - .12

Added YTD - 14.12 yards

Used this week - 21.42 yards

Used YTD - 132.31 yards

Net Used - 118.19 yards 

fabric not counted until quilt is 100% finished

Quilts finished in 2014 - 16

UFO - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

QOV - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

RMH - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

Baby Quilts - 7 of 52 quilts 

Rainbow (Angela)/Block (Judy) Challenge - 1 out of 12 months 

Fat Quarter Shop - 4 out of 24 blocks 

Tula Pink - 76 of 120 blocks - making 20 additional blocks

Stash Report #3

You can read more about this week's baby quilt here...


Our woods are filled with Cardinals - so beautiful.

I went to the bank and drove around the corner to go to the quilt store and discovered that it has closed. I didn't visit the shop in 2013 and in 2012 I learned that the owner had cancer. She started her shop in a tiny space with less than 40 bolts of fabric, she moved twice, added more fabric, had classes and bought a long arm. The sign on the door  - "thanks for 10 great years".

Another UFO is finished.

I had pieced these stacked coin blocks years ago. Thought about what I could do with them and decided they would make a great quilt to keep in the car. I added some sashing and the border is from left over backing fabric.

I used some really cheap muslin for the foundation for the blocks. I didn't have to tear away any paper, plus it added another layer of warmth to the quilt.

I am so enjoying making these blocks from Tula Pink's book.

I will probably use this layout for my quilt -

Linking with Judy's Stash Busting Reports....

Added this week - 0 yards

Added YTD - 10 yards

Used this week - 15.83 yards

Used YTD - 50.63 yards

Net Used - 40.63 yards

fabric not counted until quilt is 100% finished

Quilts finished in 2014 - 7

UFO - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

QOV - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

RMH - Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - June - July - Aug - Sept - Oct - Nov - Dec

Baby Quilts - 3 of 52 quilts 

Rainbow (Angela)/Block (Judy) Challenge - 0 out of 12 months 

Fat Quarter Shop - 0 out of 12 blocks 

Tula Pink - 28 of 100 blocks