2020 Fabric Moratorium
05-03-2020, 05:55 AM
#541
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Between the dashes of a tombstone
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Cat..two great finishes! I especially like the "plus" one, the black makes a nice contrast for all those pretty brights. And way to use up stash.
Teen, call your panel a CoVid exemption...for we've had to stay "Home". I've seen that panel with Iowa outline for the "o" here.
I'm sewing a little quilt with 2" squares; have the blocks done. It will measure 42 x 48 when done and uses over 2 yards of fabric before adding a border, binding or backing, mostly from gifted fabrics...sounds like a win for me and the donation recipient.
Welcome Deb...the more the merrier.
Teen, call your panel a CoVid exemption...for we've had to stay "Home". I've seen that panel with Iowa outline for the "o" here.
I'm sewing a little quilt with 2" squares; have the blocks done. It will measure 42 x 48 when done and uses over 2 yards of fabric before adding a border, binding or backing, mostly from gifted fabrics...sounds like a win for me and the donation recipient.
Welcome Deb...the more the merrier.
Last edited by oksewglad; 05-03-2020 at 06:03 AM.
05-03-2020, 08:29 AM
#542
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
Posts: 12,861
I sent my son another 10 yards of fabric, then my brother came up to fix a leaky shower for us, we were talking, I asked if his wife is sewing ( she’s a very gifted seamstress) he said her sewing machine was broke, they had no way to get it fixed....I sent a sewing machine home with him, I had inherited it from an aunt, really didn’t need it, very nice machine, it has sat in a cupboard for 4 years, waiting for someone to need it and it’s staying in the family. She has 3 fairly new grand babies and hasn’t been able to make things for them, I sent probably 15-20 yards of fabric, fleece, Minky, Terry, chenille, and flannel along with some patterns. Stuff that’s been taking up space that I never seem to get around to using. I still have lots, but maybe not a couple lifetimes worth anymore. I seem able to use more the more I give away- at some point maybe I won’t be embarrassed to have someone come into my sewing room. I’ve also made 95 masks now- I know there are people making thousands but I make 5-10 when ever someone I know asks for some, I’m going to start working on another scrap quilt tomorrow.
05-03-2020, 11:06 AM
#543
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,060
Good going ckcowl!
Through a chance encounter here on the forums, I'm going to be sending someone a couple of my donation/thrift store projects to practice long arm quilting on -- ones not even admitted to on my unfinished top album because, well, I didn't make them. Need to put on a couple borders/put together a couple backs before they are truly ready to go but I'm giving myself a week to do it. Isn't all that much really, will fill my hour or so a day of fabric playing needs in a way not involving masks and I am moving yardage!
Yesterday was wash day, had been given two rather large pieces of yardage of unstable dark green hand dye/batiks by my Tuesday group ladies and so boiled them a bit first. Then it was a washer full of stuff, so today it was dryer morning and I'm taking an ironing break. Blech. Hate ironing.
So saying good-bye today to this top that I bought last year/earlier this year. It was two pieces that I put together to make a twin sized project. I still need to square it up, and I might end up chopping off about 6” in length to have it better fit the border/backing and still have enough back for the long arm. I love the elephant stripe I'm using in the border but it has been very hard to use. It was a thrift store purchase and has been in the stash maybe 5 years? I think it holds together all this bright chaos well and I'm so glad it has a project to be used in. I'm having to be a bit fussy about cutting the stripes and will have to piece it together for proper length but then it will just be a plain fabric border.
The large scale bicycle I'm using for the back was another one of those “less than $5 for a back!” buys and I think goes better with this than anything else I can imagine. It has only been in my stash for less than a year, is a Shamash and Sons print, don't run across those very often any more so don't know how long it had been unused in some other stash.
Through a chance encounter here on the forums, I'm going to be sending someone a couple of my donation/thrift store projects to practice long arm quilting on -- ones not even admitted to on my unfinished top album because, well, I didn't make them. Need to put on a couple borders/put together a couple backs before they are truly ready to go but I'm giving myself a week to do it. Isn't all that much really, will fill my hour or so a day of fabric playing needs in a way not involving masks and I am moving yardage!
Yesterday was wash day, had been given two rather large pieces of yardage of unstable dark green hand dye/batiks by my Tuesday group ladies and so boiled them a bit first. Then it was a washer full of stuff, so today it was dryer morning and I'm taking an ironing break. Blech. Hate ironing.
So saying good-bye today to this top that I bought last year/earlier this year. It was two pieces that I put together to make a twin sized project. I still need to square it up, and I might end up chopping off about 6” in length to have it better fit the border/backing and still have enough back for the long arm. I love the elephant stripe I'm using in the border but it has been very hard to use. It was a thrift store purchase and has been in the stash maybe 5 years? I think it holds together all this bright chaos well and I'm so glad it has a project to be used in. I'm having to be a bit fussy about cutting the stripes and will have to piece it together for proper length but then it will just be a plain fabric border.
The large scale bicycle I'm using for the back was another one of those “less than $5 for a back!” buys and I think goes better with this than anything else I can imagine. It has only been in my stash for less than a year, is a Shamash and Sons print, don't run across those very often any more so don't know how long it had been unused in some other stash.
05-03-2020, 05:48 PM
#545
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Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Southwest Idaho
Posts: 5,999
Originally Posted by ckcowl
I sent my son another 10 yards of fabric, then my brother came up to fix a leaky shower for us, we were talking, I asked if his wife is sewing ( she’s a very gifted seamstress) he said her sewing machine was broke, they had no way to get it fixed....I sent a sewing machine home with him, I had inherited it from an aunt, really didn’t need it, very nice machine, it has sat in a cupboard for 4 years, waiting for someone to need it and it’s staying in the family. She has 3 fairly new grand babies and hasn’t been able to make things for them, I sent probably 15-20 yards of fabric, fleece, Minky, Terry, chenille, and flannel along with some patterns. Stuff that’s been taking up space that I never seem to get around to using. I still have lots, but maybe not a couple lifetimes worth anymore. I seem able to use more the more I give away- at some point maybe I won’t be embarrassed to have someone come into my sewing room. I’ve also made 95 masks now- I know there are people making thousands but I make 5-10 when ever someone I know asks for some, I’m going to start working on another scrap quilt tomorrow.
05-05-2020, 02:59 AM
#547
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Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,060
Ok, those borders turned out to be a bit more effort than I had supposed, it's a good thing I had a lot of that elephant fabric because the repeat was something like 11". Following the lines in the fabric, what I used was something like 7.25" cut, my crumb quilter is going to get lots of 4" strips. I had a long talk with myself to start with, that the pattern wasn't that obvious and that I could just cut across the grain and not worry about any of it. There is a deliberate about 1" drift that the strips slant on across the width of the fabric.
Anyway, plenty of fabric and OCD tendencies meant I fussy cut the seams for the borders as well as the cutting line, that's the picture -- just me giving in to my obsessive tendencies.
The Turtle Panel is another thrift store find from last year, again under my price point of $5. The only thing I did was add the realistic rock borders which came from another thrift store scrap. Originally I was going to piece a back using a turtle fabric that has been in the stash for a long time, but for this I decided to use another large scale fish print for the back. It is two different makers, the colors are a bit brighter on the back but that's the nice thing when you are doing realism -- the fish are the same!
Today I have another thrift store piece to put together, it's a simple rail fence. When I bought it, it had a miserable little 2" wide poly blend flimsy green broadcloth border which I took off. I think it needs one more row of blocks for a better size -- even though this is a thrift store find, I have many of the fabrics (or close enough) in my stash and think my row won't be noticeable. Then I will border it with a calico that will also be used for the back but I can't make the back until I know how big the front will be.
edit: I did take off one row of the quilt to make it fit better on the back, with that off I have exactly 4" top and bottom for the long armer! Plenty of extra width on the sides.
Anyway, plenty of fabric and OCD tendencies meant I fussy cut the seams for the borders as well as the cutting line, that's the picture -- just me giving in to my obsessive tendencies.
The Turtle Panel is another thrift store find from last year, again under my price point of $5. The only thing I did was add the realistic rock borders which came from another thrift store scrap. Originally I was going to piece a back using a turtle fabric that has been in the stash for a long time, but for this I decided to use another large scale fish print for the back. It is two different makers, the colors are a bit brighter on the back but that's the nice thing when you are doing realism -- the fish are the same!
Today I have another thrift store piece to put together, it's a simple rail fence. When I bought it, it had a miserable little 2" wide poly blend flimsy green broadcloth border which I took off. I think it needs one more row of blocks for a better size -- even though this is a thrift store find, I have many of the fabrics (or close enough) in my stash and think my row won't be noticeable. Then I will border it with a calico that will also be used for the back but I can't make the back until I know how big the front will be.
edit: I did take off one row of the quilt to make it fit better on the back, with that off I have exactly 4" top and bottom for the long armer! Plenty of extra width on the sides.
Last edited by Iceblossom; 05-05-2020 at 03:04 AM. Reason: Add picture with border on
05-06-2020, 08:38 AM
#550
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Ontario
Posts: 309
ckcowl....nice going. Your SIL must have been ecstatic!
Ice....I love your colorful projects. So cheerful, just what everyone needs right now.
Yesterday I was working on a throw size scrappy. I required 128 each of mirror image 2-1/2” x 4-1/2” snowballed units. As you know it’s pretty tedious running all those units through the machine and I was day dreaming. 30 units into the second set my brain switched off and I switched back to the opposite corner.....(I need a head-slap emoji).
Looks like I am making a bed size now.
Also I received the second shipment of my order for fabrics I need to finish up other projects. The shop threw in a yard of freebie fabric. Normally I would be pleased and appreciative however I am so into using up my stash that I was annoyed! It’s in the donation pile right now but it might make a cute tote....on the fence right now.
Ice....I love your colorful projects. So cheerful, just what everyone needs right now.
Yesterday I was working on a throw size scrappy. I required 128 each of mirror image 2-1/2” x 4-1/2” snowballed units. As you know it’s pretty tedious running all those units through the machine and I was day dreaming. 30 units into the second set my brain switched off and I switched back to the opposite corner.....(I need a head-slap emoji).
Looks like I am making a bed size now.
Also I received the second shipment of my order for fabrics I need to finish up other projects. The shop threw in a yard of freebie fabric. Normally I would be pleased and appreciative however I am so into using up my stash that I was annoyed! It’s in the donation pile right now but it might make a cute tote....on the fence right now.
