Geometric Stash Buster

at least one of these rugs

is on my to do list for next year


I'd like to empty the worm baskets

once and for all!

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Check back tomorrow

for my latest punched piece...

sneak peek

to the right on the ebay image

Mom's Stashbusting !

Great fabric

from Mom's stash!

Just dumped two small bags

worth on the table...

still another two bags

to sort through

I'm keeping the small stack

in the front row

and a few

of the larger pieces

on the left

as for the rest...

Quilt Blocks and No Buy

the nine patch blocks are going together nicely with the alternating blocks...one more row to stitch before they go together then a narrow red border and a pieced wide one...other than a handful of the smaller squares this quilt has been made from my stash of fabrics that's been around here for years...and of course it hasn't made a dent...

in the past month or so I've been buying books and fabric again and have added to the stash...so I set today as the date for a 6 month No Buy on supplies for of things handmade...I think books are going to be the hardest to resist...

and if I happen to fall off the No Buy wagon then I'll make a donation equal to my purchase to this wonderful organization:

www.modestneeds.typepad.com

Chester hopped on the footstool to see what I was doing and got distracted by a bird flying by outside...if it was a chipmunk out there we'd be seeing his tail in the picture...

Stashbusting

Remember that basket of scraps I posted a bit ago...here it is in the new form of assorted squares...might not impress you gals who love the rotary cutter but these were hand cut by tracing around plastic templates...one of the joys of making quilts is handling the fabric...this book arrived yesterday and the cover looks perfect for using up these squares

The book is from my friend Rosemary who is selling a bunch of great books and patterns on eBay (http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZturkeyridgeprimitivesQQhtZ-1 )
I'd had my eye on it for a while and never got around to buying it...couldn't pass up her great deals and bought 3 books...if you love prims she has one of my all time favorite books available, Snowbound by Red Wagon...there is a photo of the Snowbound quilt in one of my early posts on this blog...

Don't forget about the Pieced giveaway ending soon...leave a comment if you'd like a chance to win...

Basket of Scraps

Went upstairs this morning to look for something and of course, forgot by the time I got up there...did find this scrap basket hiding under a stack of wool...so I brought it down to cut the pieces into stash busting sizes...am doing assorted size squares and rectangles and putting them in containers by size...they will be used for machine piecing one of these days...

Looked through my remaining quilt books upstairs too...brought these four down to enjoy all over again...each one is full of gorgeous inspirational photos of antique quilts (where I find ideas for hooked rugs too) and Pieces of the Past has some of the best patterns...

Nine Patch Scrappy Quilt

One block in progress with some pieces of fabric and plastic template...hand cut and hand piece my blocks...it's the process of stitching rather than the completed project I prefer...

After I cut out a bunch of squares I pin them to pieces of freezer paper in blocks to stitch...All the fabrics were carefully chosen from my stash...this is not a scrap basket quilt...just used a few rules when picking colors...

A bunch of finished blocks...over thirty right now...these will probably end up making two quilts by the time I'm done with the blocks...keeping them stored in a pizza box for now...just took the design wall down in the old sewing room today and am not putting one up in the studio so it will be interesting deciding which block goes where...