Stash Report and Stitching Time 10/27/2024

Placemats were my main quilting focus for the past week. Our guild had a community service sewing day to make placemats for Meals on Wheels on Thursday. The community service stash of fabric provided the blue and brown fabrics that I used for this group. None of these fabrics came from my stash, but I'm planning to pull some of my own blue and brown fabrics to make more.

After that, I finished off a set of placemat tops that had been assembled in August. The little bowtie blocks finish at 2" each, and many of them were made in 1999! The second photo shows the two different backing fabrics used to finish the placemats, and those fabrics also date back to at least 1999. I used 7/8 yard for the backings.

My other project for the week was joining the Birthday Blocks from Laundry Basket Quilts into a finished quilt top, which was shared in yesterday's post. The yardage used in making the blocks was already counted, but I used an additional 1.25 yards for framing the blocks.

Altogether, I used just over 2 yards of fabric last week, and there were no new fabric additions to the stash.

2024 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:                  2.125 yards

Used year to date:           121.625 yards

Added last week:                    0.0 yards

Added year to date:             88.75 yards

Net used in 2024:          32.875 yards

Kate's 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces has us tracking how many days each week we get in at least 15 minutes of quilting time. I've enjoyed making placemats and plan to continue with more of those, plus I need to get back to quilting one of the Rail Fence Spinners quilts.

15 Minute Challenge for 2024

10/20 - 10/26            7 of 7 days

2024 Total          295 of 300 days

Success rate               98.33 %   

Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces. Thanks so much to Donna and Kate for continuing to host these link-ups.

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA