New Fabric

Over the past two years, my daughter has been gifting me quilt-boxes from Cotton Cuts. I get one box a month for six months (three as a Mother's Day gift, and three as a birthday gift). The fabric style selections she has chosen for me will stretch me (but she may inherit them still, haha), and nearly all have been wonderful. The ones in the first year included a pencil and a small spool of Aurifil thread in addition to the 1-yard cuts. This year's are half-yard cuts and whatever small monthly surprise is added. Within the last couple weeks, I finally removed them all from their pink shipping boxes, washed, folded and logged them into my system. 

A new box arrived just a week ago, and should be the last for this year unless she decided, unbeknownst to me, to subscribe longer for me.

The six fabrics closest to the front of the image are from the quilt-box. On my computer, the image looks a bit dull, but hopefully yours will show better. All are a bit more vibrant. The orange fabric, a Minion-themed (& licensed) fabric, and the green in the back are my small purchases made while going with Panda yesterday. Those two were both in the clearance bolts so were only $5/yard...I really don't need more fabric, but orange is in short supply in my stash, and I thought the green would just be a nice addition. Any wagers on the Quiltville Mystery Quilt having orange in it? I seem to recall Bonnie really likes orange, and if she bases this year's MQ on her January Japan trip, she showed pictures of orange structures....could/would she include orange again? Is the Japan trip even her inspiration? We'll all know in a month!

I think I'm getting closer to wanting to stitch again. I need to be about 40 years younger to accomplish all that my mind wants to do but my body says "no" to. Doesn't seem fair, but then, I need to recognize I have accomplished much during my lifetime so far, and Lord willing, there'll still be another couple decades to go to bring some of those other desires to fruition.

Stash Report, Week 46, 2014

I am home and catching up.  During this week I have done laundry and lots of it, but probably not much else other than decompress.  Considered part of laundry are the fabrics I purchased during my four weeks in the wet land.  All fabric gets pre-washed.  My aunt and I took part in a small shop hop but only made it to four of eleven shops - we just didn't have the time to make it to the others, though it was very tempting to get to a couple more one day when we went to a memorial service, but we had one of my uncles and a distant cousin with us so decided not to and our time was too short anyway.

So, back to the details.  My numbers are clearly going in the wrong direction, but after actually seeing my aunt's stash, I think I have room to grow ;p


Used This Week: 0 yards 
Used Year to Date: 15.62 yards  
Added This Week Month: 22.43 yards  
Added Year to Date: 100.99 yards  
Net Used Added for 2014: 85.37 yards 

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My aunt let me go shopping in her stash!  Can you tell what these colors are for?  There are at least two that won't be included in that project.

While at my dad's, my sister and I went through a cedar chest my mom had.  In it were these cotton fabrics, along with five or six bleached feed sack fabrics.  The pink & whites are both pillow ticking, but aren't real heavy so can be used for quilting, even if only for storage sacks for finished quilts.

This is one of the feedsack fabrics.  You can still see a remnant of whatever markings were originally on it.  You can also see quite a bit of staining; I believe at least a couple of these were used as kitchen toweling.

These came from a favorite quilt shop that I go to up there each year.  I was shopping for fabrics for an upcoming mystery quilt.  Do you know which one?

These came from a shop I've been to before, but one whose fabrics don't generally appeal to me.  Some shops are that way.  This shop is still for sale in the capital city.  The green (maybe?) and the blacks will go in the mystery quilt.  I'm not sure about the bit of yellow in the banana leaves nor the purple for that quilt so will wait and see when the first cutting instructions are released.

These came from a big crafting store in that capital city.  I'd never been there before.  All, or only some, will go in that mystery quilt.  Those that don't will go back into the stash.

Do you know I had to look up the difference between capital and capitol to make sure I spelled it correctly.  I'm slipping in my "old" age!  I had it with an "o" but found out that only refers to the capitol building in the capital city.

So how have you done on additions or subtractions to your stash, whatever time frame that encompasses?