I spent most of this week continuing to work on trying to reduce the stash of batik fabrics I have collected over the years. They do no one any good sitting in the closet. I certainly do not need to add more quilts to the closet full and two quilt rakes stacked with finished quilts that reside in our guest bedroom. I have other projects I would like to work on but I am on a mission and intend to finish it before I move on.
I finished up this Jelly Roll Race quilt this week with my leftover blue and purple/lavender batiks 2.5" strips. It is 50" by 50" and has a binding prepared for it. Off to my quilt guild's charity group to quilt and finish.This batik quilt top is still a work in progress. While trying to de-stash my huge batik fabrics I found that I did not have enough turquoise batiks to finish off the color way. Now is that not the height of craziness. Buying more fabric in order to de-stash what you already have. However, while this top was originally supposed to go to my charity group, I now think I might not be able to give it up. Plan to finish it up this week and see how I feel about it when it is all done. It is not a large quilt, only 48"square. My daughter mailed this quilt top to me this past week. She lives in Colorado, I am in California. She took up quilting about 3 years ago. Loves making the quilts but, how many of them can you keep. I have often said my love affair with the quilt ends when it is finished, and she now agrees, how many can you keep. It is give them away as a gift or find someone willing to take them off your hands. This is the third quilt she has made and donated to my charity group in the past 18 months.