Gemm

WMU - I know someone else who looks for the WoW and other neutrals on the free table! ;-) Thanks for the tips, although ordering fabric cross-border hasn't really offered me much of a savings yet, which means I am managing not to buy fabric online at present. Happily I've got enough project kits on the go and enough bits and pieces in my neutrals box that I don't have to panic quite yet. :-)

QuiltingPandaBear

Another weekend another lil wall hanging completed. I got to use part of an old cut and sew panel for the ornaments and finally cut into a beautiful holiday metallics fat quart bundle I bought a few years ago then set aside waiting for “the perfect project.” It was a joy to get to use some of it and I went through each piece and discovered it included some beautiful panels which I didn’t remember at all. Now I’m inspired to make more with it.

WMUTeach

What a charming little hanging. You are now ready for the holidays or maybe gift giving. Using up what is at hand must feel good even if it is little bits.

aashley333

Thanks, Panda, for the link. Sooo many choices!

AUQuilter

Love the tumbler quilt!

WMUTeach

Thanks. There are more tumblers in a bag that came from an acquaintance who had used all she wanted to use. Enough for at least one more quilt and perhaps two depending on how I create the quilt.

Gemm

Two celebrations and a confession coming up!

Attached are pictures of two flannel baby quilts that are going to our guild's community quilts program. The squares top was actually made back in the late 1990s when a friend of mine was having a baby girl... except it turned out it was a boy! The flimsy was popped into a paper bag and tucked away in the back of a closet. I found it recently along with the bag of flannels I'd used for it and decided that I had found my latest "get this stuff out of my house" project. I have enough of the fabric to make one more little quilt, I think, but a bit of a family crisis has kept me hopping and away from the sewing room these last couple of weeks. Soon...

And the confession - I did pick up some fabrics from the guild free table. However, almost all of them are WoW and other neutrals so I'm not feeling at all guilty! :-D

WMUTeach

Yeah on the find and finish. It's OK to pick from the give away table when you can add it to an unfinished project an get them both out the door. OK, my opinion only, but if it leads to a success then why not.

joe'smom

Gemm, those are lovely, and so encouraging to hear a 'get this out of the house' report!

(I don't think I had realized that free fabric fell under our moratorium umbrella.)

Gemm

Hi Joe'smom - everyone is welcome to interpret what the moratorium means to them. I'd like to think that our primary goal here is to help people feel good about using the fabric they have (and getting some breathing room in their sewing spaces, too). :-) I get a lot of my fabrics from thrifting or the free table, and while I love starting with a collection of unconnected fabrics when planning out a quilt, I find that it can be challenging to bring some of the super-random things I've collected together into a coherent and pleasing quilt. However, that doesn't stop me from just adding to my stash because "I might want to make a quilt with a lot of yellow in it one day and there's all this yellow fabric here..." This is why I'm trying to be a bit more sensible about what I grab for free because if it's just going to sit in a box, it's not going to help with destashing. :-D