Sunday, January 3, 2016

Year end stash report & New Years Day sewing

Hey... Happy New Year!!
I think I'm over the jet lag from my Calgary trip.  I was up at 5:30 this morning.  Apparently, just because.  My brother was posting facebook pics of their new years hike and it looks beautiful and sunny in Calgary.  Here it was gloomy, cold, windy & damp.  Even though Alberta is much colder it doesn't feel like it because it's so DRY there.  Taking Sadie for a walk yesterday was downright painful.

Enough about the weather.  New Years Day was spent sewing with a friend.  She completed two of these cute little pot mitts.  These are the foldy type that you either love or you hate.  I may have to make a few of these.

While she was working on her mitts, I was assembling the blocks I put together in July when I traveled to Maine.  The fabrics are batiks my Singapore Niece gave me for Christmas a couple years ago.  Right now this measures about 45 x 60.  At some point I will be adding a border, and eventually it will become a tablecloth for the dining room.

These are the fabrics that followed me home from Calgary.  The black boot print on the far left was a gift, but the rest of it is my own damned fault.  Honestly, the shop owner from Rumpled Quilt Skins in Okotoks, Alberta is a total fiend.  Yes, a fiend.  I kept saying "NO!!" when she offered to bring the fabrics that matched so nicely with the geometric, but she ran and got them anyways.  Then I made the mistake of mentioning that I collect 'word' fabric, so she brought over the last 2.5 meters of the postcard fabric.  I was up 13.5 m. after that little visit.  Sheesh.
STASH REPORT
Year End 2015 - down 30.25 m.

Used since last report:    2 m
Used YTD:                     87 m
Added since last report:   15.5 m
Added YTD:                56.75 m
NET YTD:             (-30.25 m) 

This is how I used up the 2 m. in December.  I made a couple of aprons for Sadie's dog sitter and her mom.  Best neighbours, ever.

1 comment:

  1. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU TOO...I ALSO AM A YES, MAYBE, BUT USUALLY CAN'T FIND DOUBLE OVEN MITT PERSON

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