ibex94

Snooze -- great sewing area!!! I will stay away from Bus Tours.

BitsnPieces -- I see a great quilt of valor quilt option with those beautiful log cabins. Here's a pattern I have decided I will have to try. Perhaps your blue and reds can play nicely on this kind of a quilt. Your orphans are going to be a great quilt, too. Wait and see!

Sewingpup -- Are you loving the new machine? If so, it will help you use up your stash. And get that Bonnie Hunter quilt to finished status. If your buyer's remorse is too great, give it back. (I'm an enabler -- Pick out some bungee cords to put on the machine to keep it on the wagon with you).

sewingpup

I am loving that new machine. I made some simple nine patches out of my 2.5-inch square scraps, and also took some little hourglass units (2 inch finished) and stitched them together to see how it went. Oh, my goodness, no fuss, no fiddling, it just stitched them together and I have points! I am now thinking I will be neglecting my two 9mm machines! However, I am also thinking, I just may try and do some fancy stitches and embroidery with those two. I really don't spend a lot of money on things like travel, clothes, dining out and I did do my income tax yesterday. I will have enough coming back to pay for this machine and most of my property taxes. Yep, I live in a modest house too! OK, buyer's remorse out of the window!

retiredteacher09

sewingpup: Enjoy that new machine! 🙂

I finished a top for my church quilting group. It’s all from my stash. 60” by 80”.

The pattern is Strippy Stairways by GE Quilt Designs. The second picture is the border. I think it adds another dimension to the pattern.

Sync

Whew ...... it's February and I still haven't bought any fabric. I did just get my grandson's quilt back from the quilter and I am thrilled with how the quilting turned out. Now I can take the next few days and sew down the binding. BTW, my 4 year old grandson is obsesssed with spiderman and Elmo.

retiredteacher09

Sync: Very nice quilt! Your grandson will be so thrilled with it!

Julienm1

Oh I am SO SO scred. Project Linus tomorrow and still haven't organized fab from last meeting. So much fab in my sewing area. So many ideas in my head to sew. So little time. I am donating 9 quilts...most are 45*55 but not a dent in my stash.

MosquitoBait

Plan to join the Moratorium this year. Haven't bought any fabric since last Fall (2022) since I haven't been sewing much. My sewing space is too cold in the midst of winter, but now it's fine. The only thing I'm perhaps short on are fabrics that work for sashings, but I'll try to make do. Now that my fabric is all on bookshelves or in bins in my sewing space, I can see what I have. I'm selling some of it that I will never use. That is the only money that will be available to buy fabric to finish projects for this year.

Snooze2978

MosquitoBait, my sewing area is also in the basement and in the midwest so can relate to being cold in the winter time. It's 2 basic rooms with only 1 having the baseboard heat in it and it's on the far side of the space. When I know I'll be doing some actual sewing/quilting and it's downright frigid, I'll plug in my space heater that looks like a radiator as I can adjust the heat on it. It seems to do the trick for me plus I keep a fleece lightweight jacket down there when I need just a little bit of warmth.

As for sashings, I like using mini striped fabrics so I keep an abundance of that on hand. If I don't have what I need, I might make my own by using 2 of the colors I want cutting them fairly thin, sewing the strips together as either light/dark/light or dark/light/dark. There's so many ways to make your own sashings by how you cut them either on the straight or more tedious, on the slant, depending on how wide you want the sashing to end up as.

sewingpup

My long arm lives in the basement, during colder periods, I use my rotating space heater. I have it up off the floor a bit and it blows the heat on my legs and feet. Feels good! I usually do dress a bit warmer, and I have some of those wool gloves with just finger holes which keeps my hands warm. During the snowier parts of the year, the two basement windows will be covered by snow and yep, it really is a quilting cave then. I do sometimes call it the quilting dungeon too.

Rff1010

TIL (today I learned)
2 half yards of fabric + 1.5 yard fabric.
Cut 3" strips, make 6 strip sets.Subcut into 8" blocks. - should end up with 30 blocks. Very little waste assuming 42" WOF
Arrange into Rail Fence. 5 x 6.
center is 38x 45.5. Use remaining of larger piece for border and binding. I'm going with 4" cut. Final size should be 45 x 52.
3 days after work -
Day1 - cut and make strip setsDay 2 - subcut and make centerDay 3 - add bordersThis leaves day 4 & 5 to baste, quilt and machine bind. (I respect y'all who handstitch bindings, but that's not me)

So if you have medium sized bits and need a quilt fast.