Stash Report – Week 3, 2017

1/22/2017

Celtic Solstice
Inner Top completed
1/22/2017

The lighting is not so good and it’s so big I can’t get a full picture. But this gives you a good idea of what it looks like at the moment. After seeing the picture, I was surprised at how much I liked it. I liked it before but really liked it after seeing the full quilt from a distance. Sometimes I can’t see the full beauty of a project after working on it close up for so long. This quilt is still not finished so I can’t add it to the usage report yet. I can add the 2 project drawstring bags I made yesterday. Here they are:

Project bag #1
1/22/2017

Project Bag #2
1/22/2017

My cousin in Italy bought the flowery fabric in both the bags for me a couple of Christmases ago. It’s not quilty cotton. It’s very thick and sturdy. It reminds me of home dec fabric. I think I have about 4 yards of this and another fabric. I can’t use it on quilts so I’ve always thought that they would make great bags. And I think that’s what I’ll be using them for. These are my first two and I have ideas of how I can make them better. Each bag takes half a yard so I get to add 1 yard used for this week! 🙂

For the fabric stash:

Used this week: 1 yards
Used year to date: 1 yards
Added this week: 0 yards
Added year to Date:0 yards
Net USED for 2017: 1 yards

For the Budget:

I know last week I said I was watching my budget. Well, I decided to buy a sweater’s worth of yarn and another #2 16-inch circular. This time I got HiyaHiyas. I heard great things about them and decided to take the plunge and try them out. I’m not doing great watching my budget but at least I’m using what I bought now and it’s not sitting in stash.

Spent this week: $73.68

Spent year to date: $113.59

Slow Stitching Sunday

And for Slow Stitching Sunday with Kathy at Kathy Quilts, I plan to continue my work on A Rainbow Garden!

Here’s the pic I showed last week:

A Rainbow Garden
Block 6
…in progress…
12/12/16

Here it is! Block 6 all done!

A Rainbow Garden
Block 6
Finished!
1/22/2017

At some point on a previous post, I said I was going to do really tiny blanket stitches around the buds. I did that on the 1st bud below. I don’t like it. So on the 2nd bud I just stitched all the way around. I wanted it to have big and short stitches. I didn’t like how it looked in #2. In #3, I ended up going around doing big stitches around first then went back a second time to fill in with smaller stitches. Bingo! I love it. I know some people would pick out #1 and #2 and restitch so that all the buds will look like #3. But I don’t. I keep it as is and enjoy the process.