Wednesday,September 2,2009....Day 20 of 4,014
Yes!! LIFE HAPPENS..and the best intentions and decisions need to be revised....
Yes!! I had hoped to quilt and blog every day; and to learn the library computer systems in swifty-time....( I am proud of my computer progress--not "perfect" yet..but slowly getting there)
I have been able to quilt....and will, by Friday, September 4, have some happy quilt/stash completion to report.....and I hope serve as an inspiration and example to other quilters who also have lived in frustration with fabric overload.
Roofers pounding all day--the/my brain rebels; tomorrow the bi-monthly meeting of the "We Do It In Secret" Book Club, named for the 9 excellent women on the 2005-2006 XX County, California Civil Grand Jury.
FRiday!!! 4 quilts from 'unfinished quilt tops" draw completed...and the fabric pieces and scraps from originals and those quilts now ZERO....Progress!!
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Quilt/StashProject-2020--Determined QuilterSaturday, August 29,2009
Saturday, August 29,2009.....Day 16 of 4,014
Two weeks of challenge...Four separate Work(S) in Progress
Yes 4---four--- separate challenging projects
1. The Quilt/Stash Project-2020 which is the completing of all quilts now on the design walls and in the "unfinished quilt tops" drawer...and getting the fabric stash to zero; and quilting at least one hour a day.
well...I am not sure if Julie powell really did cook/bake every day for 365 consecutive days in order to complete the 524 recepies in Julia Childs book...however, I have discovered that the "one hour every day" might not be doable because: LIFE HAPPENS.... so at least one hour a day a goal...and making-up for "lost' hours/days by quilting 3-4-5 hours on a single day as compensation...or just pure pleasure.
2. Learning this art of blogging...and writing every day? Again did Julie Powell actually blog every day??? In my two weeks I have also learned that blogging every day is a goal not a possible reality.....again: LIFE HAPPENS.
3.The third demanding challenge has been learning the complexities of using a library computer--well actually a computer of any kind. Amazingly--to me--I have and am doing it!!...more of that later.
4.Finally, learning how to get picutres of my completed quilts on this blogg; today still a dep mystery--and--an interesting challenge.
So Never On Sunday--the/my fates cooperating blogging again on Monday.
Happy Quilting, Determined Quilter
Two weeks of challenge...Four separate Work(S) in Progress
Yes 4---four--- separate challenging projects
1. The Quilt/Stash Project-2020 which is the completing of all quilts now on the design walls and in the "unfinished quilt tops" drawer...and getting the fabric stash to zero; and quilting at least one hour a day.
well...I am not sure if Julie powell really did cook/bake every day for 365 consecutive days in order to complete the 524 recepies in Julia Childs book...however, I have discovered that the "one hour every day" might not be doable because: LIFE HAPPENS.... so at least one hour a day a goal...and making-up for "lost' hours/days by quilting 3-4-5 hours on a single day as compensation...or just pure pleasure.
2. Learning this art of blogging...and writing every day? Again did Julie Powell actually blog every day??? In my two weeks I have also learned that blogging every day is a goal not a possible reality.....again: LIFE HAPPENS.
3.The third demanding challenge has been learning the complexities of using a library computer--well actually a computer of any kind. Amazingly--to me--I have and am doing it!!...more of that later.
4.Finally, learning how to get picutres of my completed quilts on this blogg; today still a dep mystery--and--an interesting challenge.
So Never On Sunday--the/my fates cooperating blogging again on Monday.
Happy Quilting, Determined Quilter
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Quilt/StashProject-2020--Determined Quilter
Thursday,August 26,2009......Day 14 of 4,014
Super productive day yesterday (no blogging) about 6 hours of quilting-- piecing the backing of the "Medival Cathedrals" (28x28) quilt ; the quilt top started and completed in a 2 day class in conjunction with the Sisters, Oregon Outdoor Quilt show in July, 2002. Yes!! SEVEN (7) years ago.
This quilt has dramatic colors of orange-red-black; the very best rewarding/satisfying outcome: I actually used, to the very last-tiny scrap all of the original fabrics..and..most of an additional gorgeous black-orange-red complementary/enhansing fabric from my stash boxes..
Surprisingly,the backing of this quilt is now even more arresting and dramatic that the top-- Yes!! I am good!!!
..and I am accomplishing my goal of using my stash to zero by 2020.
Quilting today!!!!!
Then......a Reality Revelation (of course..of course...at some deep (?) subconscious level I have always known ) some of my unfinished quilt tops cannot be completed from the stash....and..
The reason is simple: there are absolutly no compatible fabrics of any size or amount in the stash.
So now I accept that I must/will have a To-Be-Delayed drawer......for those finished quilt tops that require new fabric (thus new purchases).
As of today, August 26, 2009 thre are 2 quilt tops for the To-Be-Delayed drawer:
1. Sylvia Einstein design--"intersecting" circles ( www.sylviaeinstein.com) top completed at Empty Sools Seminars--2008
2. My unnamed "Hawaii" themed top--the original design by Lorraine Torrence (Multi-View Images) completed at Empty Spools Seminars in 2002..oh dear..there is that year 2002 again..
Unfortunate no internet address for Lorraine.....happy search...
Empty Spools Seminars:www.emptyspoolsseminars.com
Happy Quilting...
Determined Quilter
Super productive day yesterday (no blogging) about 6 hours of quilting-- piecing the backing of the "Medival Cathedrals" (28x28) quilt ; the quilt top started and completed in a 2 day class in conjunction with the Sisters, Oregon Outdoor Quilt show in July, 2002. Yes!! SEVEN (7) years ago.
This quilt has dramatic colors of orange-red-black; the very best rewarding/satisfying outcome: I actually used, to the very last-tiny scrap all of the original fabrics..and..most of an additional gorgeous black-orange-red complementary/enhansing fabric from my stash boxes..
Surprisingly,the backing of this quilt is now even more arresting and dramatic that the top-- Yes!! I am good!!!
..and I am accomplishing my goal of using my stash to zero by 2020.
Quilting today!!!!!
Then......a Reality Revelation (of course..of course...at some deep (?) subconscious level I have always known ) some of my unfinished quilt tops cannot be completed from the stash....and..
The reason is simple: there are absolutly no compatible fabrics of any size or amount in the stash.
So now I accept that I must/will have a To-Be-Delayed drawer......for those finished quilt tops that require new fabric (thus new purchases).
As of today, August 26, 2009 thre are 2 quilt tops for the To-Be-Delayed drawer:
1. Sylvia Einstein design--"intersecting" circles ( www.sylviaeinstein.com) top completed at Empty Sools Seminars--2008
2. My unnamed "Hawaii" themed top--the original design by Lorraine Torrence (Multi-View Images) completed at Empty Spools Seminars in 2002..oh dear..there is that year 2002 again..
Unfortunate no internet address for Lorraine.....happy search...
Empty Spools Seminars:www.emptyspoolsseminars.com
Happy Quilting...
Determined Quilter
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Quilt/Stash Project-2020--Determined Quilter
Tuesday, August 24, 2009
12th day of Quilt/Stash Project--2020--Design Wall Progress
When Quilt/Stash Project-2020 and this blog began on August 14, 2009 there were 5 pieces on my design walls (yea..I have 3 separate walls):
...a Reynola Pakusich designed finished quilt top; a Sylvia Einstein inspired finished quilt top;an almost finished (80 plus pieces) backing for a Kaffe Fassett design which I have named "Monet Garden" (Kaffe has other names for his quilts of this design); and two beginning small quilt tops (potential wall hangings) from multiple and diverse fabric scraps left over from other quilts.
Today--August 23, 2009
... off the design walls: 1) Completely completed- "Dotting Circles" my name for the Reynola Pakusich designed wall hanging; 2) the two small 'scrape" quilt tops--one used as the backing for my "Victoria Sunset" quilt now completed, the other put away in an individual work-in-progress plastic envelope and "filed' in a drawer.
...still on design walls: 1) almost finished backing for "Monet Garden"; and 2) unnamed Sylvia Einstein designed quilt. This quilt last quilt is a dilema as there are no suitable, color- right fabrics in my stash. I have "vowed' to myself not to buy new fabric until stash is zero (well?)
So to be considered-resolved-- the question: buy--not buy new fabric?, even with carefully measuring for sure to create more stash.
Fortunately, that question can be deliberated and postponed for another day.
Reference: Reynola Pakusich: www.reynola.com
Sylvia Einstein: www.sylviaeinstein.com
Kaffe Fassett: www.kaffefassett.com
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
12th day of Quilt/Stash Project--2020--Design Wall Progress
When Quilt/Stash Project-2020 and this blog began on August 14, 2009 there were 5 pieces on my design walls (yea..I have 3 separate walls):
...a Reynola Pakusich designed finished quilt top; a Sylvia Einstein inspired finished quilt top;an almost finished (80 plus pieces) backing for a Kaffe Fassett design which I have named "Monet Garden" (Kaffe has other names for his quilts of this design); and two beginning small quilt tops (potential wall hangings) from multiple and diverse fabric scraps left over from other quilts.
Today--August 23, 2009
... off the design walls: 1) Completely completed- "Dotting Circles" my name for the Reynola Pakusich designed wall hanging; 2) the two small 'scrape" quilt tops--one used as the backing for my "Victoria Sunset" quilt now completed, the other put away in an individual work-in-progress plastic envelope and "filed' in a drawer.
...still on design walls: 1) almost finished backing for "Monet Garden"; and 2) unnamed Sylvia Einstein designed quilt. This quilt last quilt is a dilema as there are no suitable, color- right fabrics in my stash. I have "vowed' to myself not to buy new fabric until stash is zero (well?)
So to be considered-resolved-- the question: buy--not buy new fabric?, even with carefully measuring for sure to create more stash.
Fortunately, that question can be deliberated and postponed for another day.
Reference: Reynola Pakusich: www.reynola.com
Sylvia Einstein: www.sylviaeinstein.com
Kaffe Fassett: www.kaffefassett.com
Happy Quilting--Determined Quilter
Monday, August 24, 2009
Quilt/StashProject-2020--Determined Quilter
Monday,August 23,2009
This blog:Quilt/StashProject-2020 was started on Friday, August 14,2009
This is the 11th day REPORT
Productive weekend August 21 and 22...about 5 hours of quilting...
"HappyCircles": Determined Quilter design (18x25) from "unfinished quilt tops" drawer COMPLETED!!!!! it looks GOOD!!!
also from the "unfinished quilt tops" drawer--Determined Quilter design (22x17) "VICTORIA
SUNSET"named for the fabric bought in a Victoria, British Columbia, Canada quilt store on a trip by County HeritageTours to the Seattle quilt show in 2006.
( See: countryheritagetours.com) Binding on "Victoria Sunset" to be completed today.
Then... ANTICIPATING..to be worked on today---.another quilt top from the "unfinished quilt
tops" drawer that I am naming:"Medival Cathedrals" (28x28) This from a 2 day quilting class in conjunction with the Sisters, Oregon quilt show in 2002..yes--%$%^%$#& 2002....oh dear!!..
Unfortuantely, the original design name, designer name and teacher's name lost from my records.... the top is interesting, complicated, time consuming piecing...and the baccking with left-over fabric is a challenge...my colors: vibrant orange-red-black.. yes..again I hope to manage pictures soon.
Not to be missed: the July 10, 2010 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show--in dramatically beautiful Sisters, Oregon ( www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org) I have been now four times...an inspiring, happy if crowded experience..get lodging reservations well in advance.
O.K. all up-to-date....Happy Quilting....Determined Quilter
This blog:Quilt/StashProject-2020 was started on Friday, August 14,2009
This is the 11th day REPORT
Productive weekend August 21 and 22...about 5 hours of quilting...
"HappyCircles": Determined Quilter design (18x25) from "unfinished quilt tops" drawer COMPLETED!!!!! it looks GOOD!!!
also from the "unfinished quilt tops" drawer--Determined Quilter design (22x17) "VICTORIA
SUNSET"named for the fabric bought in a Victoria, British Columbia, Canada quilt store on a trip by County HeritageTours to the Seattle quilt show in 2006.
( See: countryheritagetours.com) Binding on "Victoria Sunset" to be completed today.
Then... ANTICIPATING..to be worked on today---.another quilt top from the "unfinished quilt
tops" drawer that I am naming:"Medival Cathedrals" (28x28) This from a 2 day quilting class in conjunction with the Sisters, Oregon quilt show in 2002..yes--%$%^%$#& 2002....oh dear!!..
Unfortuantely, the original design name, designer name and teacher's name lost from my records.... the top is interesting, complicated, time consuming piecing...and the baccking with left-over fabric is a challenge...my colors: vibrant orange-red-black.. yes..again I hope to manage pictures soon.
Not to be missed: the July 10, 2010 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show--in dramatically beautiful Sisters, Oregon ( www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org) I have been now four times...an inspiring, happy if crowded experience..get lodging reservations well in advance.
O.K. all up-to-date....Happy Quilting....Determined Quilter
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