DE-STASH AND DONATE

 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.    

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SCRAPS, ELEMENTS, AND NEW YORK BEAUTY FINISHES

Over the last two weeks I have spent some time trying to de-stash some of my batiks.  Frankly it is a lost cause, I am not getting anywhere, but it has been fun trying.  

I had a difficult time with this batik quilt top.  While I thought I had tons of different scraps, it seems there just is never enough variety.  However, I figured that it is not supposed to be a masterpiece, the idea is to get rid of some of my batiks. Once I got it all together it seems to have come out rather nicely.  It is going to my charity group and I hopefully someone will love it.

This is my finished NewYork Beauty Tim Holtz Elements quilt top.  I am really pleased with this piece.  It was so much fun and something I have never done before.  Everyone says New York Beauty blocks are difficult to make.  There was a bit of a learning curve with them, but they are paper pieced and that system really does make things easier to get those little sharp points.  The best part was you can put colors and shapes together next to each other and get away with it that you can't anywhere else.

The pumpkin wall hanging is finished as well.  It needs to go off to the quilt this coming week along with the NewYork Beauty.    

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A FINISH AND STASH REDUCTION

I got my curved pieced project back from the quilter this past week.  It was a free class I took offered by my quilt guild given by one of the other members.   I think it will make the perfect table mat for the coffee table in our living room this winter.  

I had my quilter just do a simple circular quilting on it. 

I decided to rid myself of a large scrap bin of Tilda fabrics over the last month or so.  They were just taking up way too much space.  There are 12 star blocks and 13 solid blocks which will make a 60" by 60" quilt, and the fun dots binding. I handed them over to my charity group last Wednesday to be finished up, quilted and giving away to some local group.

Still working on getting rid of fabric from the stash.  I happened onto a YouTube site designed to get rid of little bits and pieces of scraps.  My batiks are taking over the entire storage in my sewing room.  As I  often do appliqué pieces almost all my fabrics have a tencency to look like moths have gotten into my stash and had a banquet.  So this project really works well at slicing them up into various 1.5" to 2.5" strips and a few 5" squares for the corners and paper piecing them together.  They will become a quilt for the charity group as well.  This color group is more limited so lots of repeats, but I have tons of blue batiks and they are next.  

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