QuiltingPandaBear

@WMUTeach that is an amazing volume, you are a prolific quilter! the big thing that made me realize I had to stop buying was how slow I am to finish things. At 50 yards a year I could burn through this stash I’ve accumulated a heck of a lot faster lol. Great job turning fabric on the shelf into donations of love.

QuiltingPandaBear

Well of course the first one I finish for my mini wall hangings is not the first one I started, because even on mini projects I can’t work in a linear first in first out fashion. But here it is.

WMUTeach

Oh this is so true. I have pieces I have started years ago. Often I will be in the middle of a project and I yell "SQUIRREL" and away I go on another fascinating pattern and what do you know I finish squirrel chasing before the others that I have started. For me, I need to be intrigued with the project to progress from start to finish without any "squirrels" distracting me. I am sewing today and trying desperately to focus and not be distracted by those charming furry nut lov'in squirrels.

Snooze2978

I'm happy to say I still haven't bought any fabric to ad to my stash and even used quite a bit of my stash for a quilt by Elizabeth Hartman. Her dinosaur pattern called for 36 fat quarters but since I was using my stash I went thru my fat quarters first, then my large scrap pile, then finally yardage. Her pattern wastes so much fabric in my opinion but again I did use larger pieces than just fat quarters too so I made use of the larger scraps for the binding, I stitched up all the cutoffs into HST and will be using them on the sides to widen it a bit as this will go on a toddler's bed. I made the larger size quilt.

I also finally finished a flimsey that's been up on the design wall, again using only from my stash. Just needed to add the 2 sashings and border, the binding is already made so that's ready to be quilted. It was only on the design wall for 3 years. Lost my mojo but since working on the dino blocks, I think I've got it back. Have a quilt on the frame that's been sitting there 2/3s finished since April 2023 so maybe I'll get up the nerve to finish it too. Have 7 other quilt tops waiting to be quilted so I've got my winter planned, now if only I can make my goal of finishing them so I can start more quilt patterns sitting in the back of my brain.

WMUTeach

Here is my August finish using just scraps. The colored triangles were given to me "I'm sure you can make something out of these." Of course I accepted them and added odds and ends of white on white for the other side of the HST. Ta-Da a lap quilt for donation. The challenge is that I have enough colored triangles to make two more. Tee-Hee-Hee. So this means four yards of fabric out of my scrap stash this month.

aashley333

QuiltingPandaBear , I love the hanger for your lovely wall hanging. Where can I get one, please?

QuiltingPandaBear

@aashley333 its an Amazon purchase

link: https://a.co/d/j0GsYEq

QuiltingPandaBear

Another mini hanging completed!

These don’t put much of a dent in the scrap pile, but they give a nice sense of having completed something. Also a great way to improve basic skills in a low stakes environment (scrap fabric and a grateful and non critical recipient). My binding skills will be so much better a
by the time I finish this project, I’m sure of it!

I started work on a Christmas-themed one with ornaments from a cut and sew panel, some metallic fabrics, and ribbon. Running into some challenges in machine appliqué but again: learning and using scraps.

Gemm

Some great stories and shares - thanks, everyone!

Just wondering, WMUTeach - wherever do you manage to find WoW on sale? It's about the only fabric that is on my exemption list and every time I see a general sale advertised I notice the WoW and other neutrals are excluded :-( /sigh On the bright side, I've been into a fabric store three times in the last 6 weeks and haven't bought a thing - go me!

And Snooze2978, I'd love to see how you're going to use the HSTs to widen that quilt. I'm working on clearing out a bundle of baby flannels I've been hoarding since the 90s and am trying to figure out what to do with some HSTs that were hidden between the larger pieces. Small pieces of flannel aren't very much fun to work with. :-P

WMUTeach

I find WOF at local quilt shops as well as JoAnn's. I was in Shipshewana this morning visitig the two major shops in town, Lolly's and Yoder's, both had bolts on sale from 10% to 50% off the original cost of the fabric. But I find it in local shops in my home town all the time at 20-30% off original price. I just purchased a bolt of WoW from Fort Worth Fabric Studio for about $6.00 per yard online. I have also see it from MSQ in their three yard cut sales.

(Shhhh don't tell any one but I peruse the the give away table at my quilt group meetings for odd small cuts of WoW and I take any thing from odd jelly roll strips to weird pieces from someones project left-overs. If it is at least 2.5", I will allow it to jump into my take home bag and put it to use. You may have noticed that I like using WoW in my scrappy quilts to just set off the colors of my other scraps.)