Stash Busting 2009 - Week 13

Things have been rather hectic in my life lately. I found out a few weeks ago that I would be losing my job, which was quite a shock to me. The company that I work for is completely restructuring, and all of the operational and most administrative jobs are going away next month. I did have some time to look for a new job while still working, so I put out some feelers. Also, my boss told me about an opening at his friend's company. After a couple of interviews, I did get the job at this company. However, my other job hasn't ended yet. So we worked it out that I would work both jobs until the original one ended. On top of two jobs, I've had extensive dental work and an ear infection! Needless to say, no sewing has gone on for a while. But then, no buying either!

Here's a picture of my nephew Max with my dad from this weekend. They were busy reading (and apparently writing in) a magazine and it was very cute!

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Fabric in this year: 11.75 yards
Fabric out this year: 9.75 yards

Stash Busting 2009 - Week 12

Lots going on in my life right now, but that news is for another post. Right now I only have the energy for a quick stash busting report. I must have been busy -- I totally forgot that it was National Quilting Day yesterday! I was finally able to finish a quilt in class that came completely from my stash!!! So exciting. I counted out some of the fabric a week or two ago even thought it didn't have borders then. So I'll count the borders out this week. I was able to get that done in class on Monday night, but I didn't do any other sewing for the rest of the week. I'm hoping to get some done this week, but this things don't really look any lighter for me, so we'll see...

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Fabric out this week: 1 yard

Fabric in this year: 11.75 yards
Fabric out this year: 9.75 yards

Stash Busting 2009 - Week 11

Well if the spring flowers don't want to come out, I'll just have to make some of my own! I finished a small quilt that I designed for the next class, which has a bunch of these fused applique flowers. It is a very happy and springy quilt and I really like how it turned out, however, I'm thinking I want to add some borders now. We'll let it lie right now and I'll decide later. Really, it will probably come down to how much time I have before class starts. I think I only have three weeks left!

On the stashbusting front, despite all of the sewing I did, I didn't buy any fabric this week (yay!). I did finish the flower quilt, but I might still add borders. I think I'll count it out later -- mainly because it's late and I haven't calculated how much fabric I used. So we'll say no fabric in, no fabric out.

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Fabric in this year: 11.75 yards
Fabric out this year: 8.75 yards

Stash Busting 2009 - Week 10

This weekend my mom, sister and I went to the San Francisco Quilt Guild's quilt show. The featured guest was the incredibly talented Judy Mathieson. She was there, as well as a wonderful showing of her quilts. Below are two of the ones featured (click to enlarge). It's always great to see famous quilts that you've only seen in pictures in person. We had a really nice day, and I only bought one fat quarter! (I had to -- it had monkeys on it!)

I also got a scrap/stash quilt top finished (minus the borders) this week. I'm estimating the amount of stash used, because a lot of it was smaller scraps that I had cut up into squares. I'm counting out the yardage this week, and I'll count out the borders (from stash) next week, as I'll be putting those on tomorrow night in class. I've got others in progress right now, so hopefully I'll be counting that out soon.

Fabric in this week: .25 yards

Fabric out this week: 5 yards

Fabric in this year: 11.75 yards

Fabric out this year: 8.75 yards

Stash Busting 2009 - Week 9

Above is the sewing area that I have set up in the dining room. We finally had a break in the rain this week, so I was able to get a little sunny sewing time.

Of course today I stood up for just a moment, and my chair became instantly occupied. He always wants the best seat in the house!

Yesterday I took my "know how" class on how to use my new Bernina. It was a long day (6 hours), but I did learn quite a lot of the finer points of the Bernina. And as a bonus, Annie Smith was teaching in the classroom next to ours. Annie is a wonderful quilt teacher and designer from San Jose. She is also the creator of the Quilting Stash, first podcast for quilters. I listen to all of her shows and am a big fan. I popped in after the two classes had ended and introduced myself. It was reallly great to meet her in person -- I feel like I know her already through her podcasts!

I am on the verge of finishing three different projects, but none are completed yet, so I can't count out the stash. So frustrating!! Hopefully this week! When they are finally done, I will hopefully have more out than in for the year so far. Also, I am very proud of myself, because this week I went to THREE quilt shops for various reasons, and did not buy one bit of fabric! Yay me!!! I had my eye on some Simpsons fabric that I had never seen before, but I was strong and didn't buy it. However, I did end up with a store credit at Eddie's Quilting Bee, so it may come home with me yet.

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Fabric in this year: 11.5 yards
Fabric out this year: 3.75 yard