Sunday, June 22, 2025

Stash Report & Stitching Time 6/22/2025

A great deal of my quilting time this week was spent preparing to do a demonstration at our quilt guild meeting. I had volunteered to demonstrate how to do "Stack & Whack" quilting, and needed a few new samples to share. I used a large-scale vegetable print fabric for the first set of blocks.


I still have more of the same fabric stacked and ready to be turned into blocks, but I'm not sure I want to make a whole quilt from them. I'm currently thinking they'd be great for placemats.

The other set of blocks I made this week had already been cut out several years ago and were just waiting in my bin of Stack & Whack samples and fabrics. These blocks have already been joined together with the red-orange setting fabric, and I'm planning to add a border of the main print to turn this into a baby quilt.


Total fabric used for the week was 2 yards, and no new fabric was added to the stash.

2025 STASH TOTALS
Used last week:                  2.0 yards
Used year to date:         40.125 yards
Added last week:                0.0 yards
Added year to date:           51.0 yards
Net added in 2025:    10.875 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. Besides all the prep for the Stack & Whack demo, I also caught up on the blocks for my Temperature Quilt, plus continued joining together the "Terry" blocks. 

15 Minute Challenge for 2025
6/15 - 6/21              7 of 7 days
2025 Total         171 of 172 days
Success rate                99.4 %   


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

1 comment:

  1. I used that vegetable fabric about 30 years ago to back a signature quilt for my father when he turned 60. We asked the extended family to create a 10" square however they wanted and then I joined them all with sashing and backed it with veggies since he was a gardener. It resides in my closet now. Your stack and whack blocks gave me an idea of how to use an "ugly" piece of fabric from my mother's stash. Thank you for a good trip down memory lane today!

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