Stash Busting Progress

Winter came back yesterday.  Spring will show up for midweek and then we'll be in summer by the weekend.  My Guy and I joke that spring only lasts about 2 weeks here. This year, it's been a day here and there, with winter in between. I'm not looking forward to 90+ days, hopefully we'll get more spring after that. 

Oh well, the nasty weather (cold, hot, and stormy) have kept me in the sewing room.  Even so, I've slipped pretty badly on the time line for the quilts that have deadlines.  Scenic Waypoint was supposed become a finished quilt top by midnight Wednesday.  That didn't happen.  The last two borders got added yesterday. 

I'm pretty happy with how it came together.  Scenic Waypoint was the project I picked to sew along with the Meadow Mist Designs Stash Busting Quilt Along. The bright polka dot fabrics are from a Connecting Threads Quilter's Candy fat quarter bundle purchased between 2011 and 2012.  The black background is another Connecting Threads basic. It's probably not quite that old, but it's been the stash a while. Definitely time to move these oldies, but goodies out of the stash and into a quilt top.  

The other deadline sewing that got done was finishing up a donation block for the guild's veteran's quilt program.  

The pattern for the block was handed out at the February guild meeting, so I don't know the name. It's an 18" block. It won't take many to make a quilt or two. The striped fabric worked out really well, it adds a lot of motion to the block.  All the pieces for this block came from my scrap strip bins. Being able to pull pre cut strips made the cutting part go really fast.  I have strips pulled for a second block. We'll see if it gets made before this month's guild meeting. Not a lot of stash out with this one, but I at least used my scrap bins!    

Linking up with the Meadow Mist Designs Stash Busing Quilt Along Parade. Also linking up with the normal Monday linky parties: Patchwork & Quilts and Sew & Tell Monday.