Stash Report - September 11th

It's been a fast week.  I did work in my sewing room a lot this week, but most of it was organizing my stash not sewing with it.  What sewing I did do was on projects where the fabric has already been counted as outgoing.  The Flurry back is done and I've been working on sewing together the blocks for the purple and yellow scrap quilt.  So the report looks about the same as last week.

Used this week:  0 yards
Added this week:  0 yards

Used year to date:  46.48 yards
Added year to date:  60.25 yards

Net stashed for 2011:  13.77 yards

I will have fabric out this week, I've already got the binding cut for one quilt.  Now that Flurry is ready for quilting, I can get busy with another project.  Not sure which one that will be as yet.  I could start work on the one Kiddo wants or the one for my niece.  Either way I need to get busy if I want them done for Christmas.

Pop over to Judy's Patchwork Times for more stash talk. 

Foto Finish - Yellow

I've been sipping my first cup of coffee and screening images for today's Foto Finish post.  Once I've got my image for the day,  I'll open up Barbara's page to confirm I've got the right theme and then write my post.  So today's photo was selected before I saw Barbara's. 

Obviously Barbara and I have similar preferences in our choice of subjects.  These Black Eyed Susans were part of the landscaping in the park that circles Lake Chelan, our vacation destination a couple of years ago. Usually I go for a close up shot of a single flower, but these flowers just begged to be part of  group shot.

To see Barbara's sister image and other sun colored images, check out Cat Patches. 

Favorite Things Friday - September 9th

It's been a long week, even though I only worked 3 days of it.  Why are those short weeks are so much worse then a regular work week?  So TGIF (squared).  

It's time for Favorite Things Friday.  Upon reflection, I concluded that my last few FTF posts have been rather materialistic. I do like my pretty things, but there are some other favorites that you can't buy.  In no particular order, things such as: 

• A freely offered hug from Kiddo just because Mom had a bad day.
• Having lunch with just My Guy. 
• Being able to watch the sun come up from my office window.
• A fresh, hot cup of coffee brewed and delivered to my sewing room by My Guy just because I asked. 
• Having dinner out on the patio. 
• Stopping for cherry cokes because Kiddo has had a rough day and seeing her smile come back as we sip and talk.  

It's a simple list, but any one of the above can make my day.   

Have a wonderful weekend.  To check out more favorites, check out Quilting in My Pyjamas. 

15 Minute Challenge - September 6th

It's Tuesday and I'm off work today.  My Guy and I decided to extend our Labor Day weekend by taking our 19/30 day today.  Since he's leaving for the UK on Sunday for at least 4 weeks, it was either use the day off or lose it.  We've got stuff to do this morning, but I'm hoping to be able to sew some this afternoon. 

Did you get any sewing in over the last week?  I did a fair amount on Saturday with my personal sew-in.  That kinda makes up for the 3 days I didn't spend any time in the sewing room. 

I am counting the time I spent yesterday organizing the sewing room.  It needs some more work, but I at least got rid of all the bins I had been using and got everything moved to shelves or drawers.  I was getting tired of moving all the bins around trying to find my fabric.  So I finally went to Lowes yesterday and bought a new shelving unit for the closet.  Much better.  Now I just need to fold all the fabric neatly so it all stacks nicely.  I'll probably work on that some this afternoon. 

That's my effort for the week.  How did you do last week?  You can count whatever time you what to count, it's all about what you think is important to you in getting the crafty things done that you want to get done.  Here's Mr. Linky, link up and let us know how it went. 

Design Wall Monday - September 5th

Happy Labor Day to those in the United States.  Hope you've been able to celebrate the official end of summer with family and/or with a little sewing over this three day weekend.  I've done both over the weekend, so today will be my "labor day" as I've put laundry off for as long as I could. 

I took Saturday as a personal quilt retreat day and managed to get quite a bit done once I tidied up the sewing room a bit.  The yellow and purple quilt (pattern by J. Turner and M. Rolf) is being sewn into rows.  I'm almost half way done with that. 

I've also been working on the backing for Flurry (by Kate Spain), but no pictures of that project just yet.   

I'm going to enjoy one more cup of coffee before I get going on my labors for the day.  While I do that I'm going to check out all the other design walls over at Judy's Patchwork Times. 

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