Last Stash Report for 2018

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Used this Week:                                               0.00 yards

Used year to Date:                                       188.38 yards

Total out of stash this Month (December)      28.75 yards

Added this Week:                                             0.00 yards
Added Year to Date:                                        63.00 yards
Goal:                                                             200.00 yards

Yards to goal:                                                  17.13 yards

Net Used in quilts 2017:                                 244.21 yards 

A couple of other fun facts are:

Prairie Moon is doing a 350 blocks challenge this year:
Number of equivalent blocks:                    1305

Perimeter in inches                                  12366

Number of UFOs finished this year:              48

UFO Yardage Used                                161.69

    

Amount of yardage used in UFOs              66%

Number of Spools Used this week            0

Number of Spools Used this year            14

It's the same as last week.

I took the time and cleaned and organized.

I also got a bit of a bug and ended up sleeping a day away.

Feeling better, so I think I'll see about loading a quilt on the long arm.

Maybe I can quilt it today and bind it tomorrow to start the New Year off right.

It's cold here, and we had thought we would go out to eat this afternoon, but it is going to freeze.

Thinking we will stay home and enjoy the warmth.

Wishing you a happy 2018

Venting

I don't have a quilting business.

I have a long arm to work on my own quilts, charity quilts and sometimes when friends ask me to quilt one for them.

I will invite friends over to quilt their own quilts on my long arm.

So, I had a friend have a friend that needed a quilt quilted.

I never really had a great conversation with the quilter, just my friend.

The quilt came.

It had some problems with friendly borders.

The backing was pieced interestingly.

I loaded and quilted it to the best of my ability.

I send it back.

No response.

Finally asked and was told she is unstitching it.

That is a difficult job because of the pattern I used.

She wanted the backing centered vertically.

Not something I would do, because I don't really know how to make that happen.

Guess I should look up how to make that work.

So, she is unhappy and I'm sad because she is unhappy.

Just proves to me why I do not want to work on other people's quilts.

I think it is a lessons learned that unless I can talk to the person with the quilt, I won't be quilting it for anyone.

Off to work on my Stashbuster's UFO numbers and do some filing.

Stashbuster Random Numbers

They gave us the random numbers for January early.

So it all begins! :)

Small number = #2 

My #2 is Alphabet Panel

I have the panel partially cut out and the side pieces picked and partially cut.

This will be a fun project.

Other number = #79 

My #79 is Imperfect Squares

This one was at the bottom of the UFO cabinet.

Had to take all of one compartment out.

But, it is an older UFO, so that is a good one to actually work on.

I don't know how many squares I'll need to make, but they normally go fairly quickly and I should be able to use some scraps if I need more.

I put them up on the wall and it looks like I need one more block before assembling it.

I'm thinking to put sashing between it.

I might be able to get these going. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge

The Joyful Quilter reminded me about the Rainbow Quilt Challenge at soscrappy .

I enjoyed working with it on my Sparkling Sampler, but I'm not done with that one.

I left the pieces home I needed to work on during the last trip.
Pairing it with the Scrap Attack Challenge would allow me to participate in both and not start two new projects.

So, I think I'll do that.
What a great idea!
I get to play along with both, and that will be lots of fun.

This wall of scraps can be used in 2018 working on the RSC at soscrappy and the Scrap Attack Challenge.

Wish me Luck

6 & 6

This is a new challenge that I might as well join in on.
6 & 6 Challenge
6 UFOs and 6 New projects

LOL

I don't know that I'll be able to finish all the quilts on the challenge list, but I do hope I can make progress on the 3 each month.

1. Clemens T-shirt Quilt
2. Future Heirlooms Star
3.Hawaiian Applique Pillow (hand quilted)
4.Bloom
5. Harry Potter -A
6.Harry Potter - J

I pulled them and put them in a tote to store where they are easy to get to.

The UFO cabinet is full, so this helps.

I really would like to get about 55 UFOs done this year.
If I can limit myself to the 6 new starts, then it is possible.

Thanks for doing this challenge

WITB

I've done a few WITB, but forgot to take photos

I bought a Serger at an estate sale a few years ago.

It has sat in a box waiting to be used.

I need to read the manual on how to thread and make a pillowcase or something to try it out.

But, the first step is to set it up.

I'll move it forward when I want to use it so the trash bag (or whatever it is called) is off the table.

I am not sure if I'll actually use it much, but I know there have been times I could use it.

Part of my clean up -- find a place for everything.

My 2018 Focus Word

My 2018 Focus word is

ORDER

I think it just means I'm going to figure out a place for everything I have.

I also need to order my parent's estate.

I'm thinking I'm going to pick one area/spot/item to work on weekly.

That gives me 52 possibilities to add in some order to my life.

I'm not sure what all of them will be, but I'm beginning to make my list

If you happen to want to share along with me that would be wonderful.

We can encourage each other.

This is my crazy family that I need to help with order and peace in 2018.

What are your focus words for 2018?

Cleaning up Blog and 2017 summary

I'm not going to be quilting to the point of finishing anything, so I thought I'd clean up the blog and get rid of 2017 items and add in the 2018 items.

One Monthly Goal (OMG)
I finished something each month for this.
I like the idea that I get to pick what I want to work on at the beginning of the month.
This seems to work the best for me.

January - Quilty Fun

February - HST Quilt

March - Music Quilt

May - Gray Strip and Star quilt (EH)

April - gypsy Wife

June - Blue Star and Strip quilt (AF)

July/August - Simply Woven JMS

September - Western Sunset

October - Spring Jelly Roll

November - Door Christmas Countdown

December - Irish Star Quilt

Quilts Quilted for others in 2017

Tammy's Baby quilt

Lana Football quilt

T-shirt Quilt

QOV #10

HST Wedding Quilt

Tammy Purple Quilt

T-shirt quilt

CIL Quilt #1

CIL Quilt #2

QOV #11

QOV #12

Tammy Embroidery Quilt

Tammy orange and teal

CIL #3

CIL #4

CIL #5

QOV #13

QOV #14

CIL #6

Sandy's Halloween Quilt

QOV #15

QOV #16

QOV #17

CIL #7

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

Tammy Wall hanging

CIL #8

Lana RWB

Wendy Memory Quilt

Tracy Fink's quilt

Jan's quilt

My Quilts that I've finished

Teal Test Quilt

Test Quilt

Patriotic Star and crumb quilt

Quilty Fun

Jo's Club Blue

FROG Quilt 

Cat Swap Blocks 

P Music Quilt

S Music Quilt

Scooby baby quilt

Gray stars & strips GS Quilt

Test Quilt

Purple Stars & Strips GS quilt

W Music Quilt

Modern Maze

ABC Building Blocks

Gypsy Wife

Blue Stars and Strips GS quilt

Heart test quilt

Tammy donation quilt

Guitar

Simply Woven

Test Quilt Squares Chasing Squares

Day Lilly

Western Sunset

Orange Fall Table Runner

Orange square fall table runner

Spring Jelly Roll

Advent Calendar

African large top

Applique Table runner

Blocks that I made in 2017

I only count them if they are in a finished object.

It doesn't have to be a quilt, but it must be done done.

January................. 111

February............... 450

March................... 30

April ..................... 20

May ...................... 223

June...................... 34

July....................... 28

August................... 72

September............. 68

October.................. 57

November ..............39

December .............203

Total....................1335

UFOs completed in 2017

I am happy with what I completed this year.

I had a balance between new starts and finishes, so that makes me happy.

I am still way over the number of UFOs anyone should have.

66% of my fabric usage was from UFO finishes.

I'll be focusing on them again this year.

January
(01) Teal Test Quilt
(02) Patriotic Star & crumb Quilt

February
(03) Quilty Fun 
(04) Baxter T-shirt Quilt
(05) Jo's Club Blue Pillow
(06) HST Wedding Quilt 
(07) HST Table Topper/Pillow 

March
(08) Headphone pouch 
(09) Embroidery - Postcard 
(10) Animal Applique Pillow
(11) Applique turtles toy 
(12) Heart Ornament
(13) Frog & flowers baby quilt 
(14) Cat Swap Blocks 

April
(15) Mr P Quilt 
(16) 2017 Band T-shirt Quilt 

May
(17) Embroidered Baby Quilt 
(18) Band pillows - 3 
(19) Esther's Stars & Stripes Gray (#125) 
(20) Mackenzie's Stars & Stripes Purple(#125) 
(21) Modern Maze
(22) ABC Building Blocks

June
(23) Ashley's's Stars & Stripes Purple(#125) 
(24) GS star pillows (#125) 
(25) Bonus hst block for quiltie fun

July
(26) Apron (not part of the UFO Challenge) 

August
(27) Purple & Brown pillow
(28) Simply Woven

September
(29) heating pad 
(30) simply woven organic mug rug
(31) Day Lily
(32) 10 minute table runner from orange fall UFO
(33) Western Sunset
(34) Orange Fall Table runner

October
(35) Christmas Sweatshirt/T-shirt
(36) Christmas HST -- candle mats/mug rugs - 4 Green, 5 red
(37) Chicken purse
(38) Chicken microwave bowl cover, Chicken coasters and mug rug

November
(39) Spring Jelly Roll

(40) Christmas Alphabet squares - advent calendar 

December

(41) Fancy Fox Mug Rug

2017 Goals were:

1. I will improve my health

2. I will become more organized

3. I will downsize

4. I will improve my expertise

5. I will decrease my fabric stash

For the full post, check this link out. https://melsquiltingblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/2017-goals.html

I talk about the summary of everything at this post https://melsquiltingblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/2018-planning-linky-party.html if you want to read lots more.

I did OK on my goals for 2017

I will continue to link up to different blogs, but my main goals for the year are:

Improve my health

Reduce my stash

Use more of my scraps

Downsize my possessions

Organize the things that are kept

Add order to my life

Tossing Challenge

Tossing 2017 items in 2017

Tossed 2609

January -- 105  

February -- 37

March --51

April --40

May -- 30

June --250

July --350

August --450

September -- 350

October -- 326

November --420

December --200

I don't think I'll keep track of what I toss this year.

My December accomplishments were:

Christmas Coasters

Thread holders

Pop It containers

Tracey Fink's red, white & black

OMG - Jan's quilt

Postcards

Get It Done #2 - Fancy Fox

4 Stockings

Stashbusters #'s game

This yahoo group is meant to help us use up our stash and finish UFOs.

They pick a small and large number each month and you can choose to work on them or not.

Making progress is a good thing.

These are the ones I did not finish.

March

#21 Car organizer

April

#47 Double Wedding Ring 

May

#4 Ann's 2009 Mystery

June

#2 APocketful of Mysteries BOM

July

#5 Ann's Mystery Star

#40 Copper & Teal

August

#56 Fall Panel 1

September

#10 Baby clothing - Boy (I'm working on this one)

#48 Dragon Fly baby quilt

October

#6 Pixie Garden

November

#2 Ashley embroidered art block

#70 Future heirlooms test block

December

#8 Ashley's FQs 

#17 Bread and Butter Flag (I'm working on these)

These are the ones I actually finished.

DONE

Jan #11 Baxter's T-shirt Quilt

Jan #83 Jo's Club Blue

#3 Animal Applique

#69 FROG quilt

#7 Turtle Toy

#12 Basic Building Blocks

#46 Day Lily

#35 Christmas Sweatshirt/T-shirt

It's a fun process and I hope to do better in 2018.

I finished 8 of 24, many that I would not have been working on if not for this challenge.

So, what UFOs are still on the list from 2017?

A Pocketful of Mysteries BOM

Ann’s Mystery Star

Applique Pixie Garden

Ashley FQs

Ashley’s Art block (use it in the t-shirt quilt)

Baby clothing quilt – boy

Baby clothing quilt –girl

Blue and beige misc

Borachio

Bow Ties

Bread & Butter Flag

Buffalo panels (used a few, but more left)

Bug Jar Quilt

Bull’s-eye – 30’s

Car Organizer

Cherry Apron

Chicken makings

Children’s book – Woodsy Wonders

Chili Powder quilt

Christmas - Nature gift

Christmas Diagonal

Christmas Panel – Winter’s Evening

Christmas panels (3)

Christmas squares (from Carol)

Christmas Stockings (1)

Christmas Tree Ornament - Crazy patchwork

Christmas tree skirt – blue

Coaster squares

Color guard pillow

Copper and teal quilt

Courthouse step panels

Cozy Days Quilt

Cozy kitten mystery blocks

Crazy heart paper pieced

Daisy Banner

Double Wedding Ring

Dragon fly baby quilt

Elvis Quilt

Embroidery blocks

Equessense T-shirt Quilt

Extra 4 patches and 9 patches

Fall border

Fall Panel

Fall Panels

Fall Quilt

Fall Square Quilt

Fall Yellow & Brown top

Fancy Fox

Feathered Star pieces

Fish Bowl

Floral & Blue square in a square

Flower Shop Quilt

Fluffy Pillow

Framed 4 patch (from Carol)

Fused

Future Heirlooms

GMFG

Gypsy Wife 2

Halloween quilt

Hawaiian appliqué

Hawaiian appliqué (quiltsmart)

Hawaiian Quilt – fabrics from vacation

Heart ornaments

Heart Struck Runner

Home in the Middle

Hooty Patooty Owl

Horse Barn

Hummingbird blocks

Imperfect Squares (29)

Jo’s Club red

Jo’s club retreat teal and brown

John Deere pillow

Landscape

Leader /Ender 2.5”, 1.5”, 1” scrappy

Liberty blocks

Madam Mim

Mahjongg

Map of Texas – Lone Star State

Midnight Snowflake Wall Hanging

Mini Scrap baskets

Mira - Red Hat purse

Misc Fall Blocks (Gypsy Rose) Green & Brown woven border

Misc panels

Miscellaneous Pieces

Modern Maze

Monkey ‘N Round

Mount Rushmore

Noel Wall Hanging

Office going away squares

Orphan blocks

Paper pieced block

Paris

Pat Sloan I love to quilt BOM

Patches for Randy’s quilt

Patriotic GMFG

Patriotic panel (Lorena gave me)

Peacock

Pink & Green Quilt Panel

Pink & Purple 9 patches

Pink & Purple QAYG for bag

Pink Horse Quilt

Pixie Garden

Pretty in Pink

Purple Triangle in a Square (leftovers from 54-40 or fight)

QBS Mystery Quilt 2006

Quilt Smart butterflies

Quilter wall hanging panel

Red and Black pinwheels odd sized (4)

Rob Peter

Row By Row

Rudolph

Sampler Society BDB 2014

Sea Quilt

Shirting Half Square Triangle or Quarter Square Triangle quilt

Shy Little Kitten panel

Spring Jelly Roll

Stars & stripes

Stegosaurus

String blocks

Sun kissed table runner #2

Sunset/ Dragon leftovers

Teal and blue BDB

Texas

Tie One On

Tie Quilt

Tinker Bell

Tree – genealogy

Triple Irish Chain

T-shirt quilt – random from Carol

T-shirt quilt - Randy’s

T-shirt Yarn

Under the Sea Quilt

Western Courthouse Steps

Whimsy Playground

Wool ornaments

Yellow and Blue Birthday Blocks

Yo yos

140 still not done, but I organized them differently and have more on the 2018 list.

Now, the blog is set up for 2018.

I'll still post, but I doubt there will be anything else finished this year.

One Monthly Goal

I'm linking up to Elm Street's One Monthly Goal.

Everyone has seen this before.

Crocheting

I cleaned today

The floor is vacuumed and looks much better. 

I could use to steam clean it, but I think that will wait until the weather is warmer.

It's 35 degrees here and I can't open the windows.

Notice I still need to work on the counters and things, but I am making progress.

DD with her scarf and hat.

Your can't see the cute pompom on the hat.

I had to make the scarf an infinity one that is fairly short.

We could only find one of this skein of yarn.

here is another hat, you can see the pompom on it.

I made this scarf half the wide of DD's and it is long enough for the girl it is going to.

I have one more scarf to crochet and I'll be done with that project.

They will go back for a January gift to the college friends of DD.

It is going to be cold and windy in January, so I hope they come in handy for them.

Too bad I don't know how to make gloves.

I'll be working on that scarf tomorrow between my cleaning sprees.

I have to take breaks or I get too worn out to continue.

It feels good to do this.

Let's Bee Social

Not much sewing happening around here.

I received 2 rolls of batting Christmas and have half a roll left under the long arm.

So, the kiddos put one roll under for me.

Now, that is great, but everything under the long arm does not fit anymore.

See the batting on the back of the long arm?

I now need to figure out where to store that and use it up.

I have use for it in 2018, but not right now.

I also need to make the backing for Quilting is Happiness.

I have the 2 bread and butter designs up on the design wall.

One is ready to quilt, but I might as well wait until the second one is done.

I need to cut another star to use as a leader ender. 

It's rainy out and this photo didn't come out great, but you can see the messes.

My cutting and pressing station need to be brought out of Santa mode and into quilting mode again.

I'm doing more cleaning than quilting so I can start the new year off right. 

Irish Stars is still on the wall.

I keep bouncing between what size to make it.

I don't want it this size, because I don't need one that large.

I could make it into 3 lap sized quilts with only a few leftovers that could be a pillow.

I'm still debating with myself on what to do.

So, I saw some yarn that was interesting and bought some.

Well, bought too much.

So, when I'm down stairs watching TV with DH, I am crocheting hats and scarfs.

Don't need them often in Texas, so they need to be done quickly.

Bottom line, I'm cleaning, crocheting and prepping for quilting.

My word of the year is order.

I'm linking up to Let's Bee Social.

Motivational Monday

11-18 December 2017

1. Quilt Irish Stars & 3. Bind Irish Stars

quilted on Monday bound on Wednesday

2. Quilt Tracey's quilt
Done and ready to mail.

4. Postcards

  

I also made mitten postcards, but can't find a photo of them

19 - 25 December 2017

1. Clean up Studio to start year off right

2. Bread & Butter mini quilts (2)

3. Mending done

4. WITB

After Christmas

My quilty gifts for Christmas were

Kids putting the batting that DH bought me under the long arm.

It is a chore because I have too much stuff under the long arm.

Now, I need to put it all back, but cleaning is in order before that. 

We had two coupons for 60% off, so DH got me a second roll and is graciously storing it in his office. 

I'm collecting gold or brown batiks.

DH got me a half yard of some.

He expected a kit, but has not received it yet.