Design Wall Monday

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Stash Report Week 5

Used this week (yards)              .25

Added this week (yards)          2.75

Used year to date (yards)         1.50

Added year to date (yards)       4.63

Net year to date total                 3.13

Heavy.  Sigh.  And sadly, the time I am spending on the sample quilt counts for nothing stash-wise.

Do those blocks look like "Bouquet Baskets"?

NO!  I put them on the wall and thought those don't look right and it's because they aren't.  I wondered why I hadn't cut those large triangles when I was doing all the cutting the first time.  Well, H-E-L-L-O,  I did cut white ones, they were just at the bottom of the stack!

Color Palette Overload

I poured the Goldfish into this little bowl and right away thought of Design Seed, which explores color palettes.  I set the bowl on this piece of batik to see how it would play.  Not bad but then I remembered the two pieces of batik I just got for the batik BOM.  Red and Yellow.  That might be a spectacular combination!

Too late though.  The Goldfish were gone.

The Hurrier I Go, the Behinder I Get

I had the bottom piece of batik and had to buy a piece to coordinate, fps, but I really like the way this turned out.  Not quite as it should have though because I was in a hurry and did this:

 

Most of you will notice that these two pieces trimmed from the lining are not the same size.  It's kind of awkward when you are boxing up a bottom and so I moved my ruler to the wrong side of the seam and... oops!  So then I had to re-do the boxing part and ultimately that made it deeper.  Which really was okay since this size bag is called a project bag rather than a gift bag.   Nevertheless, I could hear my mother's voice in my ear commenting on if I wasn't always in such a hurry.  I know some of you are laughing at that because you have seen me cut and sew and I am very much slower than everyone else.

I had some ripping out to do on the casing too but only because I ran out of bobbin in an awkward spot and I thought it  would look better to just do it over.

Of course I had a problem with this little guy too.  I had already made one of these bags and so was screaming along on this one.  Sewed the lining turning opening closed, settled the lining inside the bag and then realized I hadn't boxed the bottom and it was too late to go back and fix it because I already had the casing done.  Grrrh.

Guess I need to make a few more  :-)

Design Wall Monday

Nothing on the wall but I did make this little cutie yesterday.  I just needed a change from the big hard wallet that I have been using.  It has two flaws, I work up a sweat trying to remove my driver's license and it is too big for a pants pocket.

There are three pockets in this wallet and because it is out of fabric, I don't think it will fall out of my pocket.  No big investment here, I had everything I needed on hand and not enough fabric was used to even count in the stash busting!
 

Stash Report Week 4

Used this week (yards)            1.00

Added this week (yards)          1.63

Used year to date (yards)         1.25

Added year to date (yards)       1.88

Net year to date total                  .63

 

Will work harder this week so I can get a negative ytd total.  Even one pillowcase a week will help and fps I have some already cut!  I hardly work this week so I can make it happen.  No excuses.