I belong to two quilt guilds and they both ran challenges this past year. In the spirit of killing two birds with one stone, I combined the projects into one.
I'm honestly not crazy about the QUILT, but I had fun with the quilting. That argyle design took f.o.r.e.v.e.r.
I'm really not very good at those wee circles.
I had fun with the back, too! I used up some smaller pieces that were travel gifts to me from my DB and SIL (who b.t.w. are currently in England celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, and witnessing the financially devastating Brexit vote.)
The past couple of weeks we have been entertained by COCO Paving who first tore up our road, and are now PAVING our road. I knew they were paving this morning because all the racket woke me up. Clearly, those guys don't realize just how much beauty sleep I need.
I like to think that I stay on top of my housework with a scheduled list of chores. I stripped the bed and decided it was a good day to put the summer quilt on the bed. So, I washed the non-summer quilt and hung it on the solar dryer to dry. Then I realized that all I could smell in the air was liquid tar. Sigh, When I get that quilt out of the cupboard in September I will probably have fond, aromatic memories of road paving. Idiot.
STASH REPORT
Used this month 8.2 m
Used YTD 37.74 m
Added this month 2.5 m
Added YTD 73.3 m
NET YTD: +35.56 m
When I was at Quilt Canada last week I attended a lecture/trunk show by Julie Plotniko. She had lots of ideas for easy, scrappy quilts and got me a bit motivated! At Scrappy Club on Monday I started a new lap-size-ish quilt for donation. If I stay motivated maybe the stash report will get down to a red bottom line soon.
- Caledonia was a paint chip challenge, where I drew the orange, lavender and turquoise. Then I added black and white. Sadly, at the June meeting I did not win a viewers choice prize.
- Binbrook was a border challenge with a hot mess of weird instructions every month. The voting on this challenge will happen at the September meeting.
I'm honestly not crazy about the QUILT, but I had fun with the quilting. That argyle design took f.o.r.e.v.e.r.
I'm really not very good at those wee circles.
I had fun with the back, too! I used up some smaller pieces that were travel gifts to me from my DB and SIL (who b.t.w. are currently in England celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary, and witnessing the financially devastating Brexit vote.)
The past couple of weeks we have been entertained by COCO Paving who first tore up our road, and are now PAVING our road. I knew they were paving this morning because all the racket woke me up. Clearly, those guys don't realize just how much beauty sleep I need.
I like to think that I stay on top of my housework with a scheduled list of chores. I stripped the bed and decided it was a good day to put the summer quilt on the bed. So, I washed the non-summer quilt and hung it on the solar dryer to dry. Then I realized that all I could smell in the air was liquid tar. Sigh, When I get that quilt out of the cupboard in September I will probably have fond, aromatic memories of road paving. Idiot.
STASH REPORT
Used this month 8.2 m
Used YTD 37.74 m
Added this month 2.5 m
Added YTD 73.3 m
NET YTD: +35.56 m
When I was at Quilt Canada last week I attended a lecture/trunk show by Julie Plotniko. She had lots of ideas for easy, scrappy quilts and got me a bit motivated! At Scrappy Club on Monday I started a new lap-size-ish quilt for donation. If I stay motivated maybe the stash report will get down to a red bottom line soon.
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