Stash Report Week #47 and 15 Minutes

 The 15 minutes a day continue.  I attached a filler piece to the entirely wrong place, so I ripped and restitched for several days!  I’m stitched for 334 days.

On the stash report front, I finished a quilt, but I also ordered a bolt of fabric for dyeing.  I found the fabric I currently like for backings or dyeing experiments, so a whole bolt saves me on shipping and waiting each time I’m ready for a backing.

IN this week: 21 yards

OUT this week: 12 yards

IN YTD: 66 yards

OUT YTD: 113 1/2 yards

YTD Total: 47 1/2 yards OUT

I need to use another 18 1/2 yards in the next month (gulp) to get back to my original goal of using twice what I purchase this year.  I have two quilts ready-ish to finish, but they won’t add up to 18 yards.  I’d best get back to sewing!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

After Thanksgiving….

Having an extra seven people in the house for four days is always lovely, and we are always glad when it’s over.  The laundry is mostly done, the extra beds and bedding (lots of quilts!) are put away, and we’re all quietly ignoring each other.  I see I’m not the only one who loves family and loves when they leave (also our linkup for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge)!

My quiet escape has been assembling 16 patches.  I finished 24 black and grey 16 patches, then made an extra teal to have enough for this layout:

 I have three more rows to assembly for this quilt, and then I have a few random blocks to mix in with some browns for the final 16 patch quilt of the year.  The many 16 patch quilts this year have been so handy.  This teal and black one is for a teacher expecting her first, and the gender is a surprise.

The binding is done on the twinkle star blocks, but I have it folded up until I wash and prep it for the wedding.  It just wouldn’t do to soil it!

I also sorted my 2” scraps in grey and black to cut a tottering pile of box blocks.  While I might not have as many as I did for teal, these are certainly a close second!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Stash Report Week #40-something and 15 Minutes

 My stash report is unchanged as I finished nothing this week.

I’ve worked on my hexagons every day this week, so I’ll be attaching another side piece again this week.  Woohoo!

This week I will finish the binding on the wedding quilt.  It’s been a difficult quilt to complete for lots of internal reasons.  Clearly my anxiety expressed itself during the quilting, as I broke no less than 6 needles - 3 in about 10 minutes.  I’ll be relieved when it’s finished.

 Company is coming, so it’s time to get ready!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Busy Weekend

The eldest has a college scholarship competition this morning, so I’ll be brief.

I have the quilting and trimming done.  I think I broke 6 needles by moving the quilt too fast.  Ah.  It’s lovely done.  This afternoon I hope to add the binding and spend Thanksgiving week stitching it down.

My gray and black squares are slowly coming together.  I need to pull my bojagi back out now that the quilt is off the machine!

 I hope your Thanksgiving (if you celebrate) is as lovely as you dreamed and you get to enjoy whatever you need, company or quiet, chaos or rest.  We’ll have 12 kids under our roof for a few days, so I’ll have more chaos than quiet, but I do love to see family!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis, katie z.

Linking up to the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Stash Report Week #46 and 15 Minutes

 The hexagons still see daily progress, although today I realized I assembled them incorrectly, so I have an hour or two of work to redo.  Alas.

With three aprons and a lap quilt finished this week, I get to count stash out and nothing in.

IN this week: 0 yards

OUT this week: 11 yards

IN YTD: 45 yards

OUT YTD: 101 1/2 yards

YTD Total: 56 1/2 yards OUT

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

A November Saturday

 I could do with an end to time changes.  They are so challenging with kids!

This week, I made three wee aprons for my classroom.  The first one was too small, so the next two are the largest size, which still may not be big enough for my older kids.  I guess I’ll make them adult-sized aprons, and these will work for my littles.  I have all the grades from PreK to 4th, so I see plenty of growing!

I finished the flower quilt.  No colors ran, and I already have it delivered.  She was quite happy to receive it, which always makes me happy.

The twinkler star quilt is basted and bobbins are wound, so next week will be a quilting week.  I have three weeks until the wedding!

I started the last bojagi panel for my windows.  It will not look anything like the other three, but each time I learn something, so I don’t mind.  I had to take down all my stained glass as one of my suction cups gave up and broke a piece.  I don’t know if it’s the temperature changes, but I don’t to repair anymore for a while!

Finally, my black and grey squares are slowly developing into 16 patches.  They won’t see much progress next week, but I’d like to make all my 16 patches into another quilt before the end of the year.  One of the middle school teachers is expecting in December, and I like to have a quilt ready to give.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

September and October UFO Report

 I don’t think I wrote a summary for September, so I’ll comment on September and October here.

September 1: 8

Started: 1 project

Finished: 0 projects

October 31: 9 projects

1. Double wedding ring

2. Brown pillow

3. ABC appliqué 

4. Hand pieced hexagons

5. Pink hexagons

6. Boxes

7. 16 patches

8. Twinkle Star

9. Flower quilt

I added the flower quilt for my friend with cancer and finished nothing over the last two months.  Oops.  The twinkle star quilt is a large project, and it’s taken a lot of time.

I am making the last set of 16 patches, so soon that project can come off my list!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

November Goals

 October goals were not too complicated, but I still found them challenging.

1. Definitely finish the 16 patch picnic quilt.  Done.

2. Assembly the star quilt and baste for quilting. Not basted, but ready to baste.

3. A friend has cancer.  She needs a quilt.  I finished this at the beginning of November.  So close!

4.  If all that is DONE, I would like to start on my large jogakbo, an illusion quilt,  or a New York Beauty quilt.  Something challenging.  Ha!  I did start my last window jogakbo, but nothing larger.  I need the star quilt done first, I think.

November goals are…

1. Trim scraps, work on hexagon filler pieces, make black/gray 16 patches, and maybe cut box blocks in colors I didn’t get to.

2.  Finish the quilt for a friend with cancer.

3.  Finish the wedding quilt.

4.  Start a project that stretches my creativity (New York Beauty, optical illusion, or ramie jogakbo).

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

October Block Count

 I made 63 blocks this month: 12 16-patches, the remaining 20 star blocks, and 31 blocks and rows for my flower quilt.  That brings my total to 1095 for the year.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Stash Report Week #44 and 15 Minutes

 On the stash front, I bought two remnants of white fabrics from Hobby Lobby.  I am out of fabric for my 16 patches and still have plenty of grey and black squares to use up!

I finished quilting my flowers quilt, so once the binding is finished I’ll have another set of yardage out.  Now that we’re nearing the end of the year, I need to make sure I keep my stash numbers where I want them.  My original goal was to use twice what I buy, and I want to stick to that!

IN this week: 3/4 yard

OUT this week: 0 yards

IN YTD: 45 yards

OUT YTD: 90 1/2 yards

YTD Total: 45 1/2 yards OUT

I finished and attached my first filler piece for my hexagon quilt.  Last night at a bachelorette party, I finished basting most of the hexagons for the next one.  It’s a fiddly business, but I like it better than attaching all the big pieces together!  It’s amazing what 15 minutes a day over the last five or so years has accomplished.  I still have my perfect record for the year.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Saturday Sewing

 My goal today is finishing the quilting on this quilt:

I’m 60-80% done, so this should be doable.  My friend has her second treatment this week, so I need to wrap it up!

My twinkler stars are in two pieces, pinned and waiting for the above quilt to make space for them.

I made the first filler section and attached it.  The edge is straight, but the folded quilt had more hexagons behind it to make it look uneven.  Oops.

I made 12 brown 16 patches last month, so this month I’ll work on black and gray.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.