Thread: 2013 Fabric Moratorium

OK, Ladies and Gents. I promised to not buy any more fabric but this week..... I had a former colleague give me yards and yards of the most beautiful fabric. She married a widower who's wife was a quilter. He doesn't know what to do with all of her stash. Now, isn't that a silly comment! I jumped in line and volunteered to take it off their hands. I have already picked out the choices of pattern and fabric for two quilts. Since this will be a long week-end for me, Martin Luther King day off, I plan on finishing the top for at least one of those two new projects! Lucky me and I did not have to pay a dime!

Earthwalker, you are to be commended - velvets and brocades must have been hard to pass on.

Paula, I assume you bought only the fabric needed for the quilt and none for your stash. Not quite stashbusting, but at least not stash adding.

Kay, JoAnn's has some darling prints in their flannels and you do have a use for yours, so you get a star, too.

I've started decluttering my bedroom. I keep finding more fabric I don't remember buying. In the bedroom??? Two sewing roms are full. Yikes!!!

craftiladi - thank you for your words of encouragement!! Tomorrow I promise the finished top comes off the design wall and then I tackle 1 UFO. Can't start something new until something old is finished!

I defrosted the upright freezer in the lower level today and needed another heavy duty laundry basket in which to temporarily store frozen food outdoors. I think today's high temp was 19 degrees F. without any wind.

Long story short: emptied the basket of fabric to sort and handle. This is another example of how I do not need to purchase my fabric. The scraps will be cut up and yardage will be folded and put away. I will begin this project in twenty minutes when my TV program has finished. :-) Thanks for being here to courage members and lurkers. Tomorrow, I will sew on some burp cloths and try to do some piecing of the paintmejudy mystery train ride for 9 patch scrappy. Progress being made, fun happening, and satisfaction increasing.

How far are you on the mystery train? I'm on step 2. I had a problem choosing fabric A because I didn't know who the recipient of this quilt would be.