happylab

too bad it's see through. That is pretty fabric.

Red, a great organized stash. It would take me months to organize my fabric. If not years, I so get distracted when I do. LOL

tkhooper

I was told I could use the see through to practice my fmq'ing. I love that idea. I need all the practice I can get and this way I'm not wasting anything I could have used. fmq on small scraps and on large pieces seems to be entirely different.

rryder

Definitely use for FMQ practice. Those prints would be great substitutes for marking designs to practice on--just quilt around the motifs. Have fun!

Rob

quiltmouse

I have only posted on here a time or two. I come in, say I'm in, then before the cat licks its whiskers, I'm online & fabrics are on the porch.

Last week, I looked online at fabric. Connecting Threads & Fabric.com. I had a general idea of what I had in mind, what I wanted for what projects are in the works. (umm, anyone else working on a list of 30 current quilts?)

Please pat me on my ole pointy: I BOUGHT NOTHING. WooHoo!!!!! If it isn't a first for me, it is pretty close to it.

and, about those 30...I'm thinking it's entirely possible I'm ADHD. I LOVE to hop around on different projects. But in my defense, I started a cut-down list for my fabric stash, and about 22 quilts to cut them down for... striped chisel, hashtag, a planned Kite, Bonnie H's florabunda, flower basket, Log Cabin dark/light, Square in a Square, a brick Chevron, Plus quilt, divided square, on point granny squares, applecore, tumbler

prior on-going quilts are a stamps quilt, Judy Hopkins Nov 2009 Mystery, yellow/pink Birch Branches

The cut down plan is to deal with all the 12", FQ, Half Yard, onsie-twosie yards I have accumulated in forty years of quilting, er, um, stash-building.

oksewglad

Good for you quiltmouse...I have to stop saying yes to those clearing out their sewing rooms..got another's today...yikes...scary thought is I see what I can make out of those pieces...

happylab

. (umm, anyone else working on a list of 30 current quilts?)

i wouldn't call my 30+'quilt current projects, many are on average from 30+ years to current. I try to finish a UFO for every other project I start. Sometimes that works. Right now I want to start 3-5 new projects. My 2 1/2" log cabin, Judy's MQ #14, meadows MQ, they are on step #3, I'm behind. Work on a few small projects for my quild. Make a block for my quilting bee partner and work on some row by row rows. I figure I will start and finish 3 of the projects. The other 2 will go on my wish list. It least I have' the bought any new fabric for a few weeks. I do want to buy fabric for my royals quilt. Hopefully I can buy it tomorrow. Or next week. Then that project will be done.

I hope everyone had had an enjoyable Labor Day.

retiredteacher09

I delivered 2 rolls of batting and a batting in a big zippered bag along with a quilt top to my church group today. 2 of the battings had been donated to me and I decided I like to piece more than make the entire quilt. It feels good to have finally make the decision to pass them on.

Connie

tkhooper

i'd rather quilt.

rryder

Well, I went to Marshall's the other day to buy backing fabric for a UFO quilt top (to go to eldest granddaughter for Christmas) since I didn't have any and I would have had to do more piecing than I wanted to do for the back of the quilt if I was going to use from my stash. I was patting myself on the back at how good I'd been, to just buy the backing fabric I needed when I realized that I'd used up just about all the fabric in my stash from one of my favorite fabric designers. So I did a search and found that equilter.com had her fabrics, along with some others I just fell in love with. I bought 10.5 yards. I'm not counting the backing fabric since it will be used up as soon as it gets here. And then a photographer friend decided to retire and close up his studio so I was given a whole bunch of fabrics that he had used for backdrops. Not sure how many yards that came to... I did use up a bunch of stash getting the top finished for GD #1's quilt, and I have to do the same to finish another UFO which I will do later this month, but I think I'll still end up having more yardage than I started the month with...

ooooops.....

Rob

Krisb

Haven't bought anything except for two panels that I couldn't resist--one for the cabin at Lake Vermilion and one that will become a Christmas present for someone. But today when I go to play bridge one of the other women who play is bringing her stash to gift me. Very nice of her, but the last thing I really need is 5 more bins of fabric.