That Owl quilt is so doggone cute. I love all the colors, and those Eyes. Quilts like that are so fun to work on. Great finish.

Thank you, Rob & ckcowl!

I need a yard and a half of barely pink fabric to start a baby quilt. Someone is having a girl, finally. Yay!!! I love baby boys, but I have been having a lot of great grandsons and I want to make a quilt for a girl. I'm afraid to go into the LQS. Too many pretties. The one out in the country has Moda Grunge, but I don't know if it comes pale enough. It helps if I know what I'm after. I also don't know if they are open, but I can call first. Wish me luck.

I also need 5 yards of backing for a patriotic quilt, but I can find something in clearance for that. I see a LQS trip for Monday - they both close early on Saturday.

Irishrose2: Wishing you luck in finding what you want.

Nothing finished to show off, but I did dive into my bin of blue and cut a "gajillion" 2.5" squares for a new mystery quilt. I have background, white on white, on hand and have made no decisions on the back because I don't know how big it will be.https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/shock.png
Still working on my stash and making progress pairing it down this year.

Did you realize that we have used 5 months of our year of moratorium already! Yikes. Two quits waiting for binding, one waiting for sandwiching and quilting and three mystery quilts in progress, all from stash. Whoo-Hoo!

Happy Quilting, all.

Re; Turning Twenty, Again. Got the 18 x 22 pieces cut. Need to peruse them for variety, etc. This is more than 5 yrds used because no fabric was 44" wide. And the 1/2 yd pieces were not always 18" long. Post washing. Looking at the pattern, <18" long will probably be OK. But of the 20 origional fabrics, had to eliminate ~5. Cut more than 1 of several fabrics. Next step is more cutting for all the pieces. Then it's assembly line piecing.

I have been doing very well for the most part of the year. I had to only purchase a few smaller pieces for a class I will be taking after the pandemic concerns are better and our guild gets back in gear. I have been sewing up a storm since March and am now working on a King Size quilt. I have make a full size Drunkard's path an Apple Core quilt and tumbling blocks quilt all from my stash. There is one more that I am forgetting for the moment and will remember after I finish after I write this post. Oh! I found two more, The Ohio Star and a 9 patch made from batik fabrics, this one I only have the binding left to complete I have tops finished and and ready for sandwiching and quilting. First things first I need the finish putting the pieces together for the Drunkard's Path quilt done is an alternative pattern. I will post the latest pic of this one. It is changing by the day. I only have 2 more rows of the blocks to complete before I can then sew it all together. I am taking my time with this one.

juliasb- That's a neat version of Drunkard's path!

Rob

I'm not buying fabric, but I'm also not using any. My time is now spent on painting inside my new home & planting things in the yard. It's 0.61 acre, so I'm mowing too. I have to admit, I prefer to work on my house at the present time.

WMUTeach: Great job on cutting 2.5” squares.

petthefabric: I’m looking forward to seeing your Turning Twenty quilt.

Conchalea: I’m excited for you. Making your new house into your home is your priority now,

juliasb: You are making great progress.

I finished another top. The center of the quilt was from Pat Sloan’s May Challenge. I needed it bigger for my church quilting group so I added borders instead of more HSTs. 3.9 yards gone from my stash. It’s 69.5” by 80.5”. It may sit in a box for a long while since we can’t meet yet. The group will sandwich, finish, and donate.

Some really nice finishes using stash have been shown. I did do some FMQ on a butterfly pillow print last night. Now to find fabric for the back. I have the pillow form waiting, so all I need is the back. My dilemma-which piece from stash will look the best?

Thank you for the kind words on the drunkard's path. I finished another 5 blocks this morning already. I hope to get a few more make yet today. I am going really slow making this quilt. I have made one other Drunkard's path that I felt was "right". The curves have always challenged me. The recent purchase of my Accuquilt Go! made the difference on perfect cuts and notches for placement on the curves. Some say you don't need pins with this system but I am old school on that and need to pin things. Thank you again.

Beautiful finish, retiredteacher! I love that electric blue border.

Julie ... Love the DP! I'm old school, too, and still pin. I'm pretty fast at it now that I've made lots of blocks with curves over time....but I still take my time, too. Will be awesome when finished.

Connie....fantastic finish! Really vibrant and bright!

I'm working on attacking some precuts I've had awhile. Right now, I'm on a layer cake and just need to do borders. I believe I found the pattern I want to do for the gazillion 2 1-2" squares I have been cutting. I'll do leader/ender and get that going...

Turning 20, Again is moving along. Everything is cut. Blocks are about 1/2 assembled. Expect to finish that assembly today. Then laying them out. It'll be 64x80" and presently don't have a space that big. Hum.....

Great quilts, folks! Thanks for sharing.
I accepted another bag of scraps Saturday...oh dear...They were the cut offs from a strip assemble quilt; a cream, a red, and 2 blues. I have 500+ of the cream and the same of the the other 3 altogether. I should be able to get 500 HST squares finishing at 2"..now what?

Thanks for the compliments. The electric blue fabric gives me fits because if I put it with the blues, it looks purple and by the purple, it looks blue. I was so happy to use more of it on this quilt top.

oksewglad: I’m chuckling that you got another bag of scraps. Since my church nor my baby charity have been open for 3 months, no bags of scraps have come my way. 👏.

The quilt top I’m working on now is using 6” squares that I brought home quite a few years ago to work on. Totally scrappy although I am using some white/cream squares with bold flowers on the rail fence part of the design. I was planning to get through all of the 6” squares by the end of the month but I had a ‘not interested in sewing’ spell. I hope I’m out of it now.

Pretty quilt top, Connie. Good job using that electric blue fabric in the border.

Rob

As some of you may know from other threads, I've been having a tough time mentally the last couple of weeks. Things are getting better, sometimes once you know and accept and than ask for help that's a big start. So yes, I'm back on track and making progress -- but I don't think so much fabric wise!

I've joined one of the round robin groups and will be using all stash for that. And then I'm going to finish up a Frolic UFO for a board member and for now at least, I'm just going to push my quilting/fabric use goals for 2020 into 2021.

I will still be oohing and aahing over the various projects everyone does and to help keep me away from retail therapy. Thanks always for the ideas and creative energy.

I have a couple of medium boxes left to finish up before sending along with my next round robin mailing, one for my crumb quilter, another with selvedges and such, and then I got connected with a good cause that could use that collection I've been eyeballing that I named "The 80s called and they want their fabrics back" -- that's going to be a large box stuffed full.

I finished up 8 UFOs to the point of ready to quilt and am using all stash fabric for backing so I can get them quilted. I used 6 yards for one today and 5 for another. The next 2 I Quilt I will probably be using 6 yards each for their backs . Then the last 4 I have wide backs for on my shelves. It is so nice to see exactly what I have and be able to use it. Yesterday I used 4 yards of stash fabric making a couple sets of new pillow cases too.
im making dents but still have plenty
here is all I have left of regular cottons. I do have a large tote of all kids prints and a tote of flannel
the bottom shelf is all wide backs
ok, I don’t know why that loaded sideways- the shelf on the right is the bottom shelf.

Squares are made for Turning 20.

Great use of stash, ckcowl!

I managed to quilt 3 more quilts today- 2 of them used 4 yards each of backing fabric and one I used 2 yards of wide backing. So, 10 more yards of stash gone.

Ckcowl....you are blasting through your stash! Great job!

I've used about 3 yards and one of my layer cakes this week. Not done yet but I think I have something for backing, too. Hopefully!

I finished another top. It measures 70.5” by 81” so close to 4 yards used. This will go in my church quilting box for them to finish when they meet again.

The quilts made by our group have traditionally been made from squares. No design but often alternating light/dark or patterned/plain squares. Many 5, 6,7,9, and 10.5” squares have been cut and assembled over the years. We are around 7000 donated quilts. I am the person that gets the orphan blocks because I like working with them. I also like making tops from different sizes and units and from a variety of designers. However, it’s time to get the small tubs of cut fabric squares out of my house. They have been here for too many years. Lol! Every summer, I plan to get it done. Thanks to the virus and a great niece getting her driver’s license (I will miss my time with those girls though), I have plenty of time to get at least the 6” and 7” squares into quilt tops this summer. 🤞

Used 5 yds for the front and another 5 for the back of Turning 20.
Used 4 yds for the BOW front. Need to pull fab for the back. And enjoyed it enough to make a second. Got 3 of 4 fabs from stash. Will need to buy the 4th.

good fabric online shop
 

I buy online many years at www.equilter.com in USA they have good quilt fabric and is only 1/2 yard fabric was a bit thin from 130+ yrds in over 13 yrs shopping from them. I am in Europe.

RetiredTeacher, you must have a very active group of sewing gals at church. You so often mention your quilts going to them for quilting or tying. . What a marvelous ministry to your community.!

You are busting through your stash ckcowl- good job.

good work getting into those smaller squares, Connie.

I just finished sandwiching a UFO using fabric from stash. Only 54” x 64”, but every little bit helps.

Rob

pettthefabric: Congratulations on getting fabric used.

WMUTeach: Our immediate group is around 8 but we have a lady that sews tops like mad during the winter that doesn’t attend our group and there is a group that meets at a local library but I only have met a few of them. Their quilts go into our counts though. I am the second youngest at 67 and our leader, who uses the industrial machine to sew the backing to the front, is 20 years older than me. When I have the chance to work in person with them, I admire how they work like a well-oiled machine. ❤️

Way to go, Rob!

An inspiration for all!

I'm in awe of the productivity of this group! It's great to read about all the stash busting going on. I'm working on my Unity quilt, using quite a few older fabrics, which feels good.

I'm going to be diving into my boxes this week, pulling out various things I hope to use for my round robin project. If there is any weird sort of thing I should be keeping my eye out to send to you as the perfect thing, this is a good time to tell me.

Already have 3 boxes (one each large, medium, small) ready to go to the post office -- and that doesn't include the round robin mail out which will be next week. Apparently it's been just about a year since I sent off my last crumb quilter package, and she got the large box this time, once I combined the partial boxes, bags and piles of small bits. There must be an inch deep of the leftover bits from the hand dyes leftover from my Frolic project alone. It always amuses me, the strata in the box as I'm working on whatever project it is.

Conchalea, the western/Texan fabrics I gathered have semi-scattered. But I'm figuring you are still getting yourself set up and reacquainting yourself with your stash and fabrics and projects on-going, put on hold, or future. Let me know when/if you are ready for those.

Thank you, Iceblossom. I havent sewn a lot on my projects lately. However, my friend here dug through a closet & found 20+ tops her.daughter pieces about 20 years ago. Daughter lives away now, so I'm helping her finish them for donations. I put binding on 1, which is all it lacked. We've finished another & given 1 away. I go back tomorrow to continue working on them. It may be a while before I get to my western-themed quilt :(

And this is why it takes me so long to get through my stash

https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...i-t311568.html

Conchalea, I figured you were happily settling down with other things. If/when you get back to the idea, most likely it will all still be here or at least I should still have some things, especially once you know more of what you want instead of the general idea. I pushed off all my planned projects for this year until next year. It's not that I don't want to do them, just that I am having a hard time getting them started now. So I'm going to do other things, hopefully things that translate into fun as well as stash usage.

I'm getting deep enough into my stash that a lot of my small/last bits have gone and I'm doing just fine with that. Sometimes I think of a piece I want and realize I already sent that one out -- but that's ok because there are a lot of other options that can now get used.

Oksewglad, it's like the old song... inch by inch, row by row that's the way our (quilts do) grow :) That's fantastic.

Thanks, IceB...you know I have more in a seam allowance on a 1/4" square finished that other sizes, so proportionately I'm using more fabrichttps://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images...es/biggrin.png.

Little triangles, drat them, can have as much/more on the back as the front. I've just never understood how a .25" seam allowance meant you had to add 7/8ths to the desired size!

There are whole disciplines about geometry and folding and such -- a lot of which are used in the space program! I took a lot of math and have played with a lot of origami but the the science is amazing.
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/nasa-i...pired-origami/

Interestiing, IceB. My son enjoyed origami as a kid and has an Mechanical Engineering degree. Fascinating article.

In sewing there is always that bit of fabric which gets "lost" in the fold. When sewing my minis I like to press seams open as less fabric gets lost and there is greater accuracy in piecing as well as less initial bulk.

Ta-Da! This evening I finished an exchange block quilt from 2011. I used fabric from my stash for the backing, the batting and the sashing. I didn't calculate the yardage but I will guess about two and a half yards of backing/sashing. A small amount, but it is no longer in my stash!