DE-STASH #1

What could bring me out of the woodwork? A chance to DE-STASH! I saw mention of this LINKY Party at SewCalGal's blog and have been waiting for the day.

  Unfortunately while I was waiting - instead of going through my stash to get ready for this event, hubby and I started looking for a new house. And we found one. So all that entails is now in motion. The house closed today, one week early! How often does THAT happen?

 I would prefer to only ship to USA addresses. I might make an exception if someone pleads their case. Shipping is not included in the listed prices. I can give you a total amount due once you tell me what item(s) you want to buy. Payment by PayPal only.

 So I have a few items ready for the De Stash with MORE on the way. I needed to do this De Stash before but now that I am moving it is really in order!

First up-Amy Butler's Style Stitches. I was going to partake in a sew along with this and then I just couldn't get my act together. I have looked through the book very gently. The pattern packet has not even been opened (see second picture). The book is in LIKE NEW condition. $16

Clover Large Yo Yo maker - who was I kidding? I do NOT like doing any sewing by hand. Bindings are my limit.

Never opened.   $5

 Next up a "La Petite Ecole" jelly roll by French General for Moda

I won this in a blog sew along and have never figured out what to do with it. It isn't my go to colors and so it keeps getting pushed aside for other fabrics in the stash.  $20

This is a Hope Cove Fat Quarter Bundle in Mint, by Robyn Pandolph for RJR Fabrics  

 9 fat quarters. Never opened. Again, I just haven't come up with something to use this for. Sweet prints. For sale at The Fat Quarter Shop for 32.50.  You can get it here for $22



A sweet fat quarter bundle of Irving Street Flannels by Erin McMorris.  You can see the full prints at Quilthome.com (where it retails for $10.95 per yard). 

6 fat quarters of flannel  $12

Various patterns - quilts, aprons, rug, child's top.

new and unused

$3.50 each, please specify which pattern(s) you'd like!

That is it for today. Leave a comment letting me know what it is you are interested in. Make sure that I can contact you - leave an email address if you happen to be a no-reply blogger. I have more to list so please come back soon!

Visit FingertipShopping for more bloggers taking part in the De-Stash event!

Praise - oh so many things to Praise the Lord for since I last wrote! My friend who had bone cancer just learned this week that her blood work shows NO active cancer in her body!

Prayer - for my hubby's left leg. For some reason it has been swelling just over his knee over the last few days and getting worse.  Prayer for healing and for wisdom on how he should handle this.

One more project...

FINISHED!

I didn't have enough of the coordinating print that I showed in my WIP post to make the waistband and ties. I decided to go with all one print. Meadowsweet 2 by Sandi Henderson for Michael Miller.



Not a great photo, taken at night, w/flash. But I wanted to get it packaged up and ready to go out the door with hubby in the morning.

Praise - lady from church has improved some with blood transfusions and will possibly go home today.

Prayers - lady from church is not out of the woods, waiting for test results/diagnosis could take up to 5 days.

Made some progress

It's late. Wait, I think it is early. Either way I need to get to bed but I wanted to post what I have been able to check off of my WIP list.

3 Aprons
2 Pillowcases

I'm linking up to Quiltstory's Fabric Tuesday!

I feel as though I am a day and a half behind my schedule. Must get some sleep. Must catch up.

Praise - College Girl had her final final today and is finished with fall quarter! College Boy had his first final today.

Prayers - for a lady from church that has been admitted to the hospital for tests, blood transfusion. Prayers for a diagnosis, comfort & healing.

Sew it up {WIP} Challenge

Lisa over at Vintage Modern Quilts is having a little Work In Progress challenge. List what you need/want to get done this month, either works in progress or things on your TO DO list. Work like crazy. Report back at the end of the month with how much you accomplished. I have a long list and so why not have the extra motivation? ( I was not able to put the little challenge logo here for some bloggity blog blog reason).


So here is my partial list (LOTS of pictures to follow)


Finish sewing this apron. Mostly Hoffman fabric that a friend chose and bought a few years ago (too many to remember) and asked me to sew for her.



Turn this Freebird fabric into an apron for a young teenager friend of mine. Switched out the ric-rac to a green one - I think.




Sew this Songbird fabric into an apron, for a different young teen friend.

Meadowsweet 2 fabric for yet another apron! Again for a friend, who has been waiting a long time for an apron from me.

I didn't post sooner because I was waiting for some packages to arrive so that my list would be complete. NO MAIL was delivered on Thursday. Well that just never happens so I asked hubby what the reason could be. He thought maybe it was because the plow had left a big berm of snow in front of our mailbox. Phooey on that! I was surprised that the mail carrier did not come to the door with the mail then. No notification or anything. Hubby cleared the snow that night.

Friday when hubby came home this is what he had for me. It was all in our box along with the regular mail!! Can you believe that all fit in the mailbox?? It's a good thing it was all fabric and didn't mind if it was folded and mangled just a bit.

Packages with return labels from Over the Rainbow, Today's Quilting, Desperate Quilters, Beaver Creek Quilt Company, Cotton Charm Quilts and an Etsy seller. I was so excited that they were all home that I didn't even open them up that night. I just enjoyed the pile of parcels. All addressed to me.

But finally I did open them and they contained such lovely fabrics.

Bliss for a Christmas apron for a little girl that lives somewhere in CA. Her mom and I are online friends.

Fandango for a border for a quilt - that will be an AFTER Christmas project, but on the list for this month.

This fun Alexander Henry 2D Zoo fabric, along with the Riley Blake dots will be made into two pillowcases for the brothers of the two teen friends that are getting aprons. I never know what to make for the boys. They are also young teens but I'm hoping they get a kick out of the quirky animals. The Terry Atkinson zippers are for some purse projects that probably will not get done this month.

Some Michael Miller Lil Plain Jane fabric also but I can't for the life of me get the picture to load, for a Christmas apron for another little girl. I think she lives in Wisconsin or Illinois. Another friend from cyberspace. The fabric I'm using for the reverse side has not arrived yet. (MORE MAIL!)


HOPEFULLY I will get to use some of this;

to at least get a flimsy done in time for Christmas.

Whew! All of that is on my list and there are a couple of things that I can't even show you here! :0 Yeah, so do you wonder why I'm even on the computer at all?? I do.

Inclunded in the mail but not part of my WIP challenge;
Martinique dots and some Mettler thread. There is also a charm square that they included with my order. This is slated for something but not anything that needs to be done this month.

Finally,in the pile of mail was this from Kelly at Cotton Charm Quilts. I won this in a drawing on her blog. No plans for it for this month. I'll be looking around for ideas though.

Sorry about the wonky spacing and such on this post. Blogger just does not want to cooperate with me tonight. I need to get back to my sewing machine.

Praise - Open House where hubby works went VERY WELL today! College Boy did great on a recent presentation and his latest film assignment.

Prayers - Finals! Tests, projects, papers.

Friday Finishes

Just a quickie post to show that I DO have something done for Amylouwho's Friday Sew & Tell.

This apron I showed in the last post but it was technically done this week. Apron #1 for one of College Girl's roommates;

Apron #2, for second roommate was finished and mailed off this morning;

Don't the aprons show much nicer when a lovely model is posing with them?? It is so difficult to show off an apron when it is on a hanger and against a wall.

I have another post coming up very shortly - my WIP list for December. I'm slowly chipping away at it.

Praise - College Girl found out that she passed her big WEST E test that she took in November.

Prayers - both kids have so much to study for and get done in the next week or two. Praying for their stamina and health.

Big ol' list!

Here we go for the April edition of;

Since my goal is to sew EVERY day this month I figured I might actually get a few projects done so I could be ambitious with my goals for the month.

First up a copy of a purse that I made in 2008;

College girl's BFF loved the purse that I made in February and so college girl has asked me to make one so that she can give it to her BFF. This green is so springy!

I received this charm pack for Christmas and wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it. I like each and every print in this line so I'm thinking of making a simple 4x10 or 4x9 tablerunner. No pattern. Nothing fancy.Just gonna let those prints shine!

The Verna 'lap' quilt;

I would like to get the flimsy done for this Cotton Blossoms quilt. I've listed it before but then set it aside for other projects.

Another project that I have set aside too many times. This is for a good friend of mine. She probably thinks I have forgotten all about it.

This for another friend of mine. She has no idea about this so hasn't been disappointed that it hasn't happened yet.


Quite the list huh? I am already dreaming of other things I would like to work on. A pair of baby shoes, half square triangles for a quilt, little zipper pouches and a couple of other purses. I guess I'd better get sewing!

Praise - for the snow that we've gotten today. It is so pretty on top of the spring brown.

Prayers - for college girl's weekend. Because of snow in the Pacific NW her plans for Easter weekend have changed (the pass is probably going to close).

February projects

I have two weeks to meet my work quota and I have it almost all done in ONE week. You know what that means?? I get to sew this coming week! SWEET!!

Besides the Hello Kitty apron that I talked about in the previous post, my plan is to make an apron TODAY using this fabric;

I am going to use Jona's tutorial. This is for a friend that I pretty much only see at church and tomorrow is her birthday. Just noticed that the colors look really washed out. I took the photo outside without flash so I'm not sure what that is all about.

Then this black and white fabric is for an apron and potholder for MY neice. Her 20th birthday is in March. She saw this fabric in a JoAnn's ad and fell in love with it. I hope it is a big surprise since she never told me about it. She told her mom and her mom (my sister) told me.

I'm not sure which pattern I will use yet.

So the three aprons and MAYBE a Riley Blake fabric quilt top. We shall see. I'm hoping I can get more done but I would need my computer to be in the shop for that to happen. Off to rip and sew! Oh yeah, I have one more project that I will send the photo off to Joan or Kelly. Rock on, Charming Girls and Guys!

Praise - that my work from home job is going nicely.

Prayers - for my hubby. He is feeling the pressure lately of a car that broke down, a leak from upstairs through the celing of this room,and little time to fix things.

Happy New Year!

So it is officially the 5th of January. The 5th day of 2010. You'll never guess what I'm doing. You won't. I mean, don't even bother trying because you would NEVER guess.
I'm waiting for a train.
See. I told you! The train to take college girl back to school should have been in town about an hour ago. The latest ETA puts it in town at 2:05. Everyone else went to bed to nap. I am on the train watch. I thought it would be a good time to bring you all up to date.

Pictures in no particular order (because I don't feel like moving them all around!). The pictures are not great quality. I have no idea what is going on with that. I realize now that I didn't even take pictures of so many things. I will try to remedy that.

Some of the things I received for Christmas;



College girl knitted this hat for me on one of her Knifty Knitter looms. This is the top of it (reminds me of the lattice work of a cherry pie). Isn't it cool??

Other things I received - a Kona Cotton Color Chart (mmmmmmmmmm!), some new jammies, bobbins for my machine!, handi-bobs, a clover mini iron with attachments, a supreme slider (I can't wait to try this out!), a calendar, reed diffuser. My family was good to me!
I made this for college girl - a coffee cozy. I made one for a friend too. I used a tutorial I found online. Trying to find the link to post here and I am not having any luck. I will try to add that later.

I made these ultra long jammie pants for my son. He is 6'6.5". As many times as he tried, the pants sold at the store are never long enough.

I made this using one of Moda's Aster Manor woven plaid fabrics and the tutorial found on the Cluck Cluck Sew blog. My son made one for his girlfriend using a different plaid fabric.

This is the apron/pot holder that I made for college girl to go along with the cookbook she requested.

I finally got around to making and applying the labels to the quilts I made earlier. I used the fonts on my machine. The pink print makes the words somewhat difficult to read but I wanted to use a print used in the quilt so my options were limited.


The second of the quilts is in the dryer right now. I will take a photo of the crinkled quilts before I pack them up and mail them off. Procrastination doesn't pay. Postal rates went up on the 4th and now it will cost me a bit more to mail these quilts off to the newlyweds.

We've had a great time as a family these past 3 weeks and are sorry to see college girl head back to school. My son will start his classes back up on Monday. My hubby sprained his ankle on the 19th of December and he is still not back to 100%. He spent about 6 days on the couch with his foot elevated and when he is up he wears a big, plastic, knee high boot to stabilize his foot. My 'at home' job will actually start being at home later on today! WOO HOO!!! The training period is over, the holidays are over, so the boss is ready to move the equipment here. I am really going to like having it here so I can work on my own terms, get other things around the house done, get back to exercising. You would NOT want to see the mess I have created clearing out a space for the equipment to go. Praying that it will fit there and then cleaning up the mess will take place.

I hope to get some sewing projects going this week too. I will take some pictures and post what is on my list for January.

Praise - for the wonderful time we've had together as a family and with friends over the holidays.

Prayers - For safe travel for college girl and that her next quarter of school would go smoothly. For healing for hubby's ankle.