Stashbusting Stats and a Finish

 I never seem to get my stashbusting statistics figured very quickly.  Here we are a third of the way through December and I'm just figured out the fabric ins and outs.  And I'm very happy with the results!  I guess I did a good job of not buying fabric last month. Take a look: 

2021	Fabric In Month	Fabric In Year	Fabric Out  Month	Fabric Out Year	Total In or Out Year
Nov	4.000	109.250	9.750	133.375	24.125

I did put an order in to Connecting Threads during their big sale but I haven't received it yet. It took a long time for me to get notification that the items had shipped and now I'm waiting for them to come.  (Sad, but true, I don't remember all that I ordered. I'll be surprised when it shows up.) 

Here's the last finish from November month. 

This was started in a class in 2015 (I think.  That's when I first found some pictures of it.)  It is a Studio 180 Design called Galaxy. You can read more about it here.  I didn't take many pictures of the finished project so I did a bit of searching to find pictures of it as I worked on it. You can see it on this blog.  But here are a few more that I never showed. 

I was getting the inner border on in this picture.  It is cool that the pattern extends into the inner border. 

I was lucky to find this cool fabric to use as the outside border.  It doesn't show up well in the first picture but looks more like the fabric in this one. 

I'll try to remember to take more pictures when it gets hung in the bedroom.  Pat made me a new quilt hanger for it. 

That's it for me tonight. I'm linking up with the following linky parties. 

Midweek Makers 

Needle and Thread Thursday 

Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop? 

Finished or Not Friday

Beauties Pageant

I'm going to do some surfing between sewing time.  I hope you can find some fun blogs to read too. 

Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie 

Retreat Review

Within 24 hours of getting home from retreat we were off to the beach house -- the first time I've been there since May!  Here are some more photos and commentary about retreat.  It was a great time despite 4 days of rain.  At least the hurricane didn't add more excitement! 

Quilters are in the building! (mine is the one farthest away. But it didn't stay the last one as more were added.) 

Mary brought a finished scrap quilt to show to the group.  Yummy!  I love the half square triangle borders. Nice job Mary! 






And now some of the finishes folks had while at the 3 and a half day retreat. 

This is Michelle's quilt top.  I can't remember what she said the name of the block was.  I believe a lot of the units were done before she go here.  Nice job getting the whole quilt top together.  I wonder if she will put borders on it or not?   Behind to the left is Mary's quilt that we had hanging the entire weekend.

Michelle also finished her galaxy quilt top.  She made the medium size.  She doesn't live in state so she did this one on her own.  It looks great. (Can I say she is incredibly fast and she stays up really late?)

MaryBeth finished another t shirt quilt. You can see another one she made at the FCQ June retreat here. Scroll down to see it. 

Sharon got her FCQ Cuddly Critter Challenge quilt top done.  Anyone who wanted to participate was given a bag of fabric to use. The guild was given a lot of fabrics to put to use -- thus the challenge.  Sharon will get this quilted at home and then turn it in.  I need to check out my bag more thoroughly as I have hardly even looked at it since I got it in June.  The quilts will be donated to Project Linus after the FCQ Quilt Show in April. 

Here's my set up.  We have narrow tables that can get exceedingly messy.  Or, maybe that's just my table! I did a fairly good job keeping the mess more controlled this year.  Behind me you can see half of Dorothy, my Row by Row buddy, and Kay.  We get together every few months to embroider or sew.  Lots of fun. 

I'll end this with a photo I took the last night we were in Nags Head. There was a rocket launch from Wallops Island Wednesday night.  We had tried to watch an earlier one but the rocket blew up.  (Seems to me we actually saw the flash of the explosion.)  This time the launch went well but we sure didn't see much.  Just one dot of light traveling up really quickly.  I tried to get a picture of the dot but, hey, this is a cell phone camera... what did I expect?  

This is what is waiting for me.  It is time to unpack, put the sewing machine back in place, unpack the bags.  And, get back to work.  Halloween is creeping up on me and I have several shirts to make for some cute little girls!  I'll share more photos from Nags Head soon.  The ocean was amazing!  Food was fabulous, although I doubt if I took any food pictures.  And, best of all I did some cross stitch and sweater knitting. 

I'm connecting up with Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop? and Let's Make Baby Quilts. 

Happy Quilting All! 

Design Wall Monday 7 - 6 - 2015

Once again Pat got soaked trying to cook hamburgers on the Fourth of July!  And, I really mean totally wet.  I can't tell you how many July 4ths it has rained buckets. I can remember at least 3 of them including one where we lost power and had a houseful of neighbors.  

I finished the borders on my Galaxy quilt. It will be stashed in the closet as soon as I get the backing made.  I keep dithering about the type of quilting I'd like to do on it.  Who knows what I'll decide.  I've got other things to quilt before I get to it. (This photo just happened to be perfectly placed in front of a hutch at Dorothy's house... it wasn't planned at all!) 

I did work on a little dress for Natalie.  I need to get it done so it can be in the mail in time for her birthday.  Just a few things left to do. 

Goals got accomplished for this week . . .  at least most of them. Here's how I did. 

Week of June 29, 2015

Plan border on Trip Around the World quilt

Cut and sew the border on Galaxy√

Quilt the Quatrefoil table runner√ almost done

Finish FCQ EQuilters blocks√

Embroider Faces on dogs√ done, photos coming soon

This week will be limited in sewing time as we are going to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to celebrate our niece's ordination as a Lutheran pastor.  Yea for Ann!

Week of July 6, 2015

Plan border on Trip Around the World Quilt

Work on a knitting project

Finish quilting Quatrefoil table runner

Drive to northern Michigan for Anne’s Ordination

Visit some quilt shops along the way

We woke up to a sad sight Saturday morning. This is the huge red bud that is shown in my header picture.  We are guessing that the heavy rain and wind we've been getting in the evenings caused it to crack.  Well, that and the decayed part!  We're sorry to see it go, but it will be coming down.  It has been a wonderful mass of blossoms every spring. I'm sorry to see it go.  

I'm linking up with Making Monday, Design Wall Monday and Main Crush Monday.

Happy Quilting All!