UFO Finish!

Here is my UFO finish for June- Crab apples!  This is a pattern from Bonnie Hunter's book Adventures with Leaders and Enders. It started out as a swap with a great group of my quilting friends. We traded the nine patch blocks pictured below, so we would have lots of variety. I finished the quilt during our annual quilting retreat last weekend. We had a great time and I think everyone got a lot accomplished.

Nine patches

Crab Apples

We are half way through the year and I am happy to report that I have actually been able to keep up and even get a little ahead. Hope you are making progress on all your UFO's this year!

Design Wall Monday

This week brings our annual quilt retreat with about 12 of my quilting friends. My sister will also be coming down from Sacramento to join us. I am looking forward to seeing her. We will all meet on Thursday afternoon for four days of sewing, eating, and catching up. 

I have a couple of projects I will be working on. One will be my UFO for June, Crab Apple. I spent Sunday cutting out all the pieces. The nine patches are done, and all the pieces are ready for paper piecing the trees. One more fabric to find is a brown for the inner border, will check my stash first!  

Next I will be working on Twister Jack, another UFO for this year. Looking forward to using the Twister ruler for this one.

I will also bring Five and Dime, a project that I mentioned in my previous post. Yes, I always bring more than I could possible finish, but it will be fun to try! What will you be working on this week? 

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Sunday Stash Report

This week I have a finish!

Talkin Turkey is finally completed. This was also my UFO from April. 

I was also able to complete the last of my applique blocks from Temecula Quilt Company Block of the month. Not sure yet how I will set them, thinking something simple. Any ideas are welcome!

My only purchase this week was from Sunshine Quilt Guild's Auction. I bid on this charm pack, layer cake, ruler and pattern called Five and Dime. Lucky me- I won!  The pattern is super simple and will be coming with me to our retreat this week in Lakeside.

So the numbers for this week are not so bad!

Used this week: 16 yards.

Used Year to date: 77.0 yards

Purchased this week: 5.0 yards.

Purchased Year to date: 65.0.0 yards.

Net Fabric Used in 2014: 12 yards.

Hope this week finds you using up your stash! See all the other reports at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report

Today's Stash report comes from beautiful Jackson Wyoming. Home of the Tetons. DH and I started our trip on Friday and stopped over in St George, Utah on our way here to Jackson. We are then headed for Yellowstone for the week. Today we took a river float trip down the Snake River- the scenery was beautiful!

In St George we visited the Superior Tread Headquarters and Quilt shop. Wow it is a must see if you are in the area. The thread selection is amazing and of course I picked up a few of my favorite King Tut thread. The fabric store has over 11,000 bolts of fabric and the biggest selection of batiks that I have ever seen in one place. I actually didn't buy too much fabric, just a few neutrals that were on sale and a couple of fat quarters for another up coming project. Unfortunately no finishes to report this week to off set!

Superior Threads

Inside Superior Threads

Soooo here are the numbers for this week, I am back to even for the year.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used Year to date: 61.0 yards

Purchased this week: 7.0 yards.

Purchased Year to date: 61.0.0 yards.

Net Fabric Used in 2014: 0 yards.

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Sunday Stash Report

This week I have a finish to claim. My May UFO, Scrappy Trip Around the World is complete! This is a free pattern from Bonnie Hunter and can be found on her website here.  Now on to finishing the Turkey Quilt and another finish for this week!

Stayed out of the Quilt Shops this week, so nothing to add, and I am now in the black for the year!

Used this week: 9.5 yards.

Used Year to date: 61.0 yards

Purchased this week: 0 yards.

Purchased Year to date: 54.0 yards.

Net Fabric Used in 2014: 7.0 yards

See how everyone else is doing at Patchwork Times.

Design Wall Monday

This week I am working on my UFO for the month #9 Scrappy trip around the world. This was started in a workshop with Bonnie Hunter about two years ago. It is going to become our car quilt. I have 9 blocks completed and will make 21 more. After this is completed, I will be back to finishing Talkin Turkey.

I also completed this paper pieced block for our Block of the Month at Sunshine Quilt Guild. It was completed just in time as our meeting will be tomorrow night. Hope I win these blocks!

See what everyone else is working on at Patchwork Times.

Sunday Stash Report

Happy Mothers Day to All!

Our road trip to Asilomar last week, brought a couple of stops in a few Quilt shops along the way. So this week I only have additions, no finishes but coming close with Talkin Turkey.

The first stop was Cotton and Chocolate Quilt Company in Thousand Oaks. This shop has a wide variety of fabrics and DH picked out these Kaffe Fassett fabrics that he loved.

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 Our next stop was in Pismo Beach at Quilt'n Cousins. Here I picked up the Button Fabric. The rest of the sewing fabrics were purchased at Back Porch Fabrics in Pacific Grove. These will be used in a future Bonnie Hunter project.

 These Fabrics were picked up at Asilomar from The Cotton Patch. It is located in Lafayette CA, but is on campus for the Empty Spools Seminars. These will also be used in a Bonnie Hunter project called Lazy Sunday from her new book.

So my adds for the week ended up to be 20.25 yards and has now put me in the red. Time to get busy and use it up! Hope you had a better week than I did using up the stash. Check out how everyone else is doing at Patchwork Times.

Used this week: 0 yards.

Used Year to date: 51.5 yards

Purchased this week: 20.25 yards.

Purchased Year to date: 54.0 yards.

Net Fabric Used in 2014: -2.5 yards