Stash Busting Report Week #36

The kids went back to school this past week, so I had more time in the sewing room! My report for this week follows:

• fabric received in: +14 yards
• fabric used: -19 yards
• net fabric for the week: -5 yards
  

Net fabric for the year: -56.5 yards (used)

What I accomplished this week:

• quilted and bound Lake Country Mystery (r/w/b)
• pieced, quilted and bound JudyL's Wonky Labor Day Challenge

Goals for next week:

• piece, quilt and bind 4-patch donation quilt
• make bee gifts
• make black, white and bright block for night guild

On September 16th I will be flying to Dallas, Texas for a reunion with my bee and Guild that I belonged to when I lived there! I'd best get busy making my gifts to give! :)

Here is the front of the Lake Country Mystery quilt. I think Donna named it, 'Three Block Mystery'. You make the Churn Dash and then the sashing becomes two different blocks, Grecian Square and Farmer's Flight, I think.

I realized when I pieced this patriotic fabric that it was indeed directional vertically. Well, I only brought enough yardage to be pieced horizontally. Next time, I will have to be careful to buy the right amount of yardage!

This is my finished JudyL Wonky Labor Day Challenge. I decided to 'go orange' and bind it in the same fabric as the inner border. I also machine stitched the binding to the back and brought it to the front to straight stitch by machine. I actually like the straight stitch better than the serpentine to finish binding this way.

This is the backing fabric, I used. JudyS. was wondering about it. I had brought this off the sale rack awhile ago. When I buy backing for my kids' donation quilts, I look for bright primary colors with a non-gender pattern (like stars, alphabet or numbers).