Almost Spring

Not a lot of action in the Sewing Room the last few months.  Once again I let Procrastination take over which meant that I didn’t do the taxes until almost the middle of March.  Which meant that, in good conscience, I couldn’t get serious about sewing/quilting.  The dumb thing is I could have done the taxes the first week of February, and the really dumb thing is it only took me about 4 hours all told.
Oh well, that’s over for another year; so now we can get down to the real deal.

I did manage to make Mr. B a tote bag for his constant companion.  He isn’t a motorcycle fan but the fabric has our hometown on it.  This item busted one yard of fabric from my stash.  Woo-hoo!

I finished steps two, three and four of Bonnie Hunter’s Roll Roll Cotton Boll mystery quilt.  Actually, step three isn’t quite finished since I still need to remove the foundation paper from about 40 of the blocks.  I’m doing a few each day as it’s tedious work.  Step five involves 600 (that’s right, six hundred) 2 inch half square triangles.  Currently I’m at about 200 sewn but not pressed and squared up.
Little by little I’ve been refolding my quilt fabric stash using 8x10 cardboard and measuring the fabric as I go.  Up until this point I just kept a running total but since then I’ve been making a note of the amount right on the cardboard.

I have now finished folding the second shelf as well as some pieces that were in baskets.  No photo yet but the new grand total is almost 300 yards.  That doesn’t include a stack of fabric that hasn’t been laundered yet plus what is with projects I’m working on or thinking of working on.

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At the beginning of 2010 I predicted that I would finish all my unfinished quilts or eat my words.  Well, pass the ketchup because I have a lot of eating to do.  I only finished two quilts, one of which is the small Halloween quilt that only needed the binding.

I also discovered several UFO’s that I had forgotten about.  Not sure of the actual count but I’m thinking of trying to finish 11 of them in 2011.  Probably a futile effort, but at least I can try.

This is made from blocks that the four Courthouse Quilters sewed and shared back in 2005 or so and was finished in July.

I started at least two quilts – the Stashbusters 2009 Sunshine Sampler and Bonnie Hunter’s RRCB.  Most of my quilt stash used was on tote bags and pillow cases.

I did make a kitchen smock for myself, aprons for GD1 and GD2, several tote bags- some from sewing fabric and some from my quilt stash.  I also cut some larger pieces of fashion fabric into oval tablecloths to fit my dining room table.  I used a rolled hem edge on some of them and just left the edge unfinished on the ones made from double knits.

The grand totals are:

Sewing Fabric used 2010:  14 yards

Quilting Fabric used 2010:   14.75 yards

Thread spools emptied 2010:  17, of which 4 were wooden spools.

Books used 2010:  I think only one, Martin & McCloskey’s Pieced Borders which I used to design a border for the Sunshine Sampler quilt.

Not saying how much quilt fabric I bought but it probably didn’t equal what I used.  I don’t think I bought any fashion fabric; however there is still quite a bit not originally counted.  When I use any of that, I don’t count it as used.