Stitching and Stashing--Week 50, 2021

My stash report for the past week includes 2.25 yards used for the mixer cover that I finished last weekend. That project took less than a week, from the day I bought the fabric until the day it was finished!

Mixer cover pattern from Sew Can She

I'm going to have fabric additions to count soon because I did some Black Friday  shopping. The first order should arrive tomorrow, and I have no idea where the other order is or when to expect it to arrive.

2021 STASH TOTALS

Used last week:                             2.25 yards

Used year to date:                    175.375 yards

Added last week:                              0.0 yards

Added year to date:                     136.25 yards

Net used year to date              39.125 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 stitching time. I got back to my usual 7 for 7 week, with plenty of stitching time every day.

15 Minute Challenge for 2021: 

12/5 - 12/11              7 of 7 days

2021 Total          342 of 345 days

Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch challenge at Life in Pieces. 

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA

Design Wall Monday 12/6/2021

The weekend turned into a good time for finishing a new project. Yesterday's post included a photo of two fabrics that I bought last week to make a quilted cover for our KitchenAid mixer, and later in the day that cover was finished!

The pattern that I used to make this cover came from Caroline at Sew Can She. Check out her website for lots of fun, free sewing and quilting patterns.

The mixer cover can be made from home decor weight fabric, prequilted fabric, or you can quilt two fabrics together yourself, and that's what I did. I used a Kona solid for the inside and the binding. My quilting was done free motion, just wandering around the different shapes in the fabric print. The seam allowances on the inside were zigzagged together to finish them off.

There were a couple of changes I made to Caroline's pattern. One was to eliminate the pockets on the two ends. I was afraid my machine wouldn't want to stitch through all those layers. Instead I copied the large pocket on the front and did a second one on the back. I also made the whole cover smaller to better fit our mixer.

Thanks to Caroline for this great pattern! I'm thinking about adapting it for other appliances like our food processor.

Check out what other quilters are working on this week:

Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA