JAWS, Scraps, Garden, Stash Report

I am a very organized person, cutting all my leftover scraps into strips and storing them neatly.

Sometimes I just don't have time so I fold them neatly and store them in this little post-officey box that Jean gave me years ago.  I'm going to cut these later.  Really.

It appears that my little post-officey box thing is crammed full and fabric is falling all over the shelf, so I had to resort to a cardboard box.  Out of sight, out of mind.  (somebody's out of their mind, but we won't go there today)

I am not the only one with the problem, though.  The Caledonia Guild has started a new Scrappy club, and we've picked a pattern from Quiltville as our first project.  Boxy Stars uses 2 1/2" strips so I put JAWS to work.  These muslin strips had all been cut in years gone by, and were hanging neatly in the first pic.

I laid them out on the 2 1/2" strip die in the opposite direction and hacked up over 400 squares in no time flat.  I love you JAWS.  I am going with a palette of blues & greens, although I don't have the greens cut yet so that might change.  Maybe I won't have enough green scraps.  insert me laughing maniacally.  I actually have so much fabric I could probably hide the Titanic. In my basement.  No one would ever find it.

STASH REPORT
Used this month 9.4 m - this was the Calgary quilt.
Used YTD 47.75 m
Added this month 0
Added YTD 24 m
Net YTD (- 23.75 m) Yay.  The next reported numbers may be bad... Grand Rapids quilt show is this week and I already know I'm bringing home wide backing.  But when I get the scrappy BOXY quilt done I will have more 'used' to report.

Here is this year's garden.  From the top down...

• flowers in the cutting garden with the asparagus on right side of the phlox
• potatoes on the right hand side 
• butternut squash - I planted 2 hills of 3 seeds per hill.  It's a good thing we are digging the potatoes because the squash is getting very, um, NEEDY about space and is encroaching on the sweet potatoes and the cabbage.  Every day I fling the vines over my shoulder and relocate them.  I feel very 'you tarzan, me jane'.
• the bottom corner contains zinnias, peppers, beets that the rabbit missed (the little bastard), cilantro, cabbage, and more zinnias.

At the other end of the garden I have the onions, the beans (sewing number three.  Damned rabbit!!!), and oh, look:  volunteer butternut squash - three of them taking over this side of the garden, encroaching on my tomatoes.  And some volunteer sunflowers in the bottom left corner.  Geez.  Somebody should straighten those fence posts.

We are going to have a BUMPER crop of butternut squash.  Because the zucchini is being very manageable this year I may have to change tactics and quit with the zucchini report - and start a BS report.  Ha ha, I could include lots of BS tidbits.  Like, I could tell you that I'm organized.  Oh, I've already pulled that one on you? Right.

Anyhow.  Here's the zucchini minding it's own business, living in the grass compost.  Sitting very cozy with the rabbit trap (empty, as you can see).

ZUCCHINI REPORT
Picked this week: 5 (gave away 1)
Picked YTD 26
I have a couple in the fridge, but mostly I've been cutting them up and putting them in my salad.  DH sliced one really thin and put it in my panini the other night.  Somehow  he did not get any in HIS panini.  Odd, don't ya think?