Sunday, May 4, 2025

Stash Report and Stitching Time 5/4/2025

I missed writing a Stash Report post last week because we were traveling, so this post covers two weeks. It's time for a little bit of True Confessions regarding my stash report. Remember back in March when I wrote about starting work on a Jane Stickle sampler quilt? (If not, you can read my post HERE.) I had started out by buying 1/2 yard cuts of a variety of teal/turquoise/blue Grunge fabrics. I narrowed down my choices to six colors plus a cream background. After prepping several blocks from one color, I figured out that 1.5 additional yards of each color should be enough for my quilt. I also threw in another color of teal. To top it all off, I bought a bolt (15 yards) of the cream background Grunge, my first time ever to buy a whole bolt of quilting fabric. Total additions to the stash: 26.5 yards. Ouch! It's going to be hard to get back in the black after an addition like that.

Fabrics for Jane Stickle sampler quilt

My usage over the past two weeks has been minimal, partly due to being out of town for a week. I did use 1/2 yard for the purple blocks made to round out the collection for my Terry Rowland colorwash quilt (read about it HERE.)


2025 STASH TOTALS
Used last week:                  0.5 yards
Used year to date:           29.25 yards
Added last week:               26.5 yards
Added year to date:         50.25 yards
Net added in 2025:        21.0 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. For the first time all year, I missed a day of quilting. We had gone to Wisconsin for a niece's wedding, and I never found any time to stitch on the wedding day. We had a great time at the wedding and visiting family, so it was definitely worth missing one day.

15 Minute Challenge for 2025
4/20 - 5/3              13 of 14 days
2025 Total          122 of 123 days
Success rate                99.2 %     


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

2 comments:

  1. Hopefully you'll end up using most of what you purchased, but I get with a Dear Jane that might take a couple of years. You aren't so badly in the hole that you can't get back to the black before the end of the year. Missing one day when we are more than a third into the year is really good metrics on the stitching front. Happy stitching this week.

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  2. Pretty fabrics. I've never seen a Dear Jane done is those colors. It will be stunning. Whatever you don't use on the front you can use on the back.

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