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Sunday Stash Report

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Terri | 3 comments

Before I get to the down and dirty, and yeah, it’s sort of bad, this was a great week for me. Still not up to 100% but I had to really think about it to see how I’m doing. Almost there.

The only bad part of my week is the flat tire I ended up with Thursday after work. Mister thinks I got the screw in the parking lot at work since it wasn’t all the way in my tire, nor was it dented up very much. Of course this created the need to search for a new tire on Friday and the closest one we could find is in Louisiana. I ended up getting the tire patched and we’re waiting to see what’s happening with a new tire. This led me to cancel my trip to California in a couple of weeks. The deadline to get my deposit back – and to mail the balance due – was Friday and I just couldn’t take the chance that the new tire would make it here, or to chance driving there and back on my patch. I’d already dodged one bullet on my last trip (as a friend so eloquently reminded me) and didn’t feel comfortable taking that chance right now.

On the stitching front, I did work on Elizabeth Sheffield 2-3 times this week. I’ve been lazy though and haven’t taken a new progress photo. Need to remedy that before next weekend.

On the quilting front:

* Son’s Tumbling charms – still waiting on black batting. I need to pick out what quilting design I want to do and see if my friend already has a similar pattern.

* Tumbler quilt – didn’t touch it this week.

* Civil War Club – tablerunner – didn’t touch it. That will be remedied after this posts.

* Celtic Solstice – As mentioned in my last post, I’m participating in Bonnie Hunter’s Celtic Solstice mystery quilt (starts Friday after Thanksgiving). I pulled my stash out and hauled my choices into work since I had 3 oranges and 3 yellows I thought would work. I bought 1 blue, and several yellow and orange FQs and am happy with what I have to work with. I’m excited to see how I’m going to be cutting it up. Many of the blues I’ve had in my stash forever and what I don’t use in this quilt will be cut up for a future nephew quilt, from one of Bonnie’s books.

* Future DIL’s quilt – bought an 8-yard bolt of fabric this week for background (and possibly backing).

* Scrappy Irish Chain – for me. Bought 5 yards of the background fabric.

* Camille Bag – this is one of the classes that I’ve signed up for. I found the perfect focus fabric but am waiting a bit for the lining and straps.

In addition to the project purchases I also added a couple of cuts of neutrals, one cut of red, and – woooo boy! – 1/2-yard cuts of all of Pam Buda’s American Gothic fabrics (link is to her blog post).

Fabric added this week : 29 1/8
Fabric out this week : 0
Fabric added this year (April – present): 178 7/8
Fabric out this year (April – present): 51 1/2

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Move along, nothing to see here

Posted on October 27, 2013 by Terri | 1 comment

My life has been blessedly boring of late!

My first half-day back to work about killed me, but not near as much as my first full-day back. I was so tired that night I almost cried. But the next morning when I got up I was fine, so I knew I was going to eventually get over it. The second full-day back I realized about 2 hours from closing that I was just then getting tired. Next day, no problems at all. Yay for recovery! I still have a couple of sore “spots” but they’re slowly going away.

The only purchase I’ve made the past couple of weeks was a new-to-me book. Scrap-Basket Surprises by Kim Brackett. I was at the shop yesterday looking over the upcoming classes list and meeting a friend for lunch. A new quilt had been put up since I worked on Thursday and it was from this book. There are 18 quilts in it and they’re all from 2 1/2″ strips.

So the numbers from my last Sunday Stash Report remain the same.

Fabric added this week : 0
Fabric out this week : 0
Fabric added this year (April – present): 149 3/4
Fabric out this year (April – present): 51 1/2

I’m waiting on backordered black batting for Son’s Quilt. I added one more row to Niece’s tumbler quilt. I got the hourglass blocks sewn together last Saturday, but discovered, while looking at a photo I took, that one row is wrong so I’ll be unsewing and fixing that. I still haven’t cut the fabric for future-DIL’s quilt, or my own! I do have fabric on hold for the background of my quilt, so next week I’ll be adding fabric to my stash report.

But I’ll also be pulling fabric since I’ve decided to participate in Bonnie Hunter’s upcoming mystery. I went to Lowe’s Friday and pulled her paint chips but I also pulled some in the same colorway but darker in tone since that’s more me. I’m keeping her orange, though. Nothing dreary. I figure this will probably be a perfect quilt for one of the nephews.

I need to get busy! I’m headed back to Cali in a couple of weeks for a needlework retreat and trying to decide whether or not I want to bring my machine, the tumbler quilt, and maybe a JMLW project or 3. Decisions, decisions. I’ll be visiting with Son for 3 days prior to that so everything would be in the trunk of my car during then and I don’t know if I feel safe leaving it there. LOL

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Sunday Sewing and Stash Report

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Terri | 3 comments

I had my post-op appointment with the surgeon this week. I’ve pretty much been released to do whatever I want as long as I listen to my body and rest during the day. Woohoo! There won’t be any problem with the listening portion since I can tell when it’s time to rest and have had no problem taking a nap. I sort of immediately nod off when it’s time 😉 Tomorrow is another doctor appointment and hopefully I’ll be on the track to normal again after that one. I do get to start back to work, part-time, on Tuesday.

I also sewed this past week. I had a Tumbler Quilt class on Thursday evening and went in early to buy the fleece for my design wall and get it cut and sewn together. I used it that evening too, and it’s currently rolled up with the beginnings of the Tumbler Quilt. I was exhausted when I got home since it’s the first time I’ve bent over that much (it was all spread out on the floor and the shop owner did the majority of the moving around for me since I still can’t get down that far. LOL). Mister is out of school Monday and Tuesday and I’m hoping he can help me get it hung up. Here’s what the quilt looks like so far (it will be going to my niece):

I also attended my first Civil War Club meeting on Friday morning. We are working on the majority of the items in The Blue and The Grey and our first project is a tablerunner. Most of the other ladies left after noon, but since I had my machine set up (still there from Thursday evening) I finished sewing all my hourglass blocks together. I was worn out when I got home.

This weekend is my Virtual Quilting Retreat (email me if you’re interested) and I have so far spent the time squaring up the hourglass blocks and have started sewing them into rows, and then those rows being pieced together.

Here are a few of the blocks on one of the border fabrics.

If this gets finished I’ll be working more on the tumblers.

I did purchase fabric this week, but only the border fabric for the tablerunner 😀

Fabric added this week : 1/3
Fabric out this week : 7 3/8
Fabric added this year (April – present): 149 3/4
Fabric out this year (April – present): 51 1/2

Last, but not least, here’s a progress photo of my Elizabeth Sheffield reproduction sampler. Still loving her, and working on her most evenings.