Julie's Quilts and Costumes: Stack & Whack

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Stash Report and Stitching Time 6/29/2025

It has been a busy week in the sewing room, which is normal around here. The part that is unusual is the fact that I finished assembling three different quilt tops this week. One was my colorwash "Terry" blocks, with over 500 blocks in the quilt. I need to get photos of that one and write a blog post. Another was a quilt top made last summer that I thought was done, but I decided to make it larger before I quilt it. I'm hoping to get that one quilted and finished in July.

The third quilt top completed this week was a Stack & Whack project made in preparation for a recent demonstration. All that needed to be done was adding the border. The main fabric is called "Galaxy Garden" by Jason Yenter for In the Beginning, and the date on the selvage says 2000! It makes a very bright baby quilt.

Stack & Whack Galaxy Garden

41.5" square

My stash usage for the week includes 3/4 yard for the border of the Galaxy Garden quilt top, plus 1/2 yard for the binding on my most recent finish, Chinese Coins. You can see that quilt HERE. No new fabric was added to the stash.

2025 STASH TOTALS

Used last week: 1.25 yards

Used year to date: 41.375 yards

Added last week: 0.0 yards

Added year to date: 51.0 yards

Net added in 2025: 9.625 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. Finishing those three quilt tops completely filled my week, with well over 15 minutes spent on them each day.

15 Minute Challenge for 2025

6/22 - 6/28 7 of 7 days

2025 Total 178 of 179 days

Success rate 99.4 %

Since we are only a couple days from the mid-point of the year, I've been looking over my records for completions so far in 2025. I'm very happy to see that I've finished the same number of quilts so far this year (9) as the last two years combined. You can see them all on my Finished Quilts page. Granted, all of the finished quilts are on the small side, mostly baby quilts and wall hangings, but it still feels great to have them done. Four of them were UFO's, one of them dating back to 1998! I sure hope this finishing trend continues through the second half of the year.

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

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.