It's been quiet around here lately and so I thought I'd share a little bit of my recent moratorium struggles and successes.
I had to take a bit of a break from sewing as "real life" suddenly got very busy and stressful. However, things are improving and I have been playing with the same stack of pink, white, yellow and blue flannels I highlighted in a recent post here. I have managed to get another quilt top planned (lots of work still to do - I made hourglasses that need to be trimmed down to a consistent size and then I need to figure out which fabrics I have enough of to make sashing and borders from). The hourglasses happened because I had a bunch of HSTs left over - I don't know that I would choose to use triangles in a flannel quilt again. I plan to piece the back of the quilt with the biggest of the leftovers and hopefully that will be the end of this pile of fabric.
I've got to admit that these flannels have been a stumbling block for me and I think I've learned some important lessons. First, I'm terribly stubborn! I decided I was going to use them up, by hook or by crook, and so I am doing that even though it's been a serious chore. I think in the future I will look more seriously at the fabrics I don't really want to use and consider donating them to the free table or our community quilts committee to avoid the frustration. After all, fabric out the door is fabric out the door, as many people have pointed out here in the past. :-)
On the "whoops" side of the moratorium, I have made some stress-induced fabric acquisitions, but have managed to keep them mostly under control. Once again, the free table at my guild meeting summoned me but I managed to keep 90% of what I picked up in the "neutrals" category (greys and blacks mostly this time). I also went thrifting this month and found a few pieces, but I'm going to call that more of a success than a tumble off the wagon because of all the fabric I saw and DIDN'T buy!
