Stash Report

May Your Compass Always Point North is DONE DONE DONE! Here's the finish.

Happy Camper

That was all stash which is kind of surprising considering how specific the colors needed to be, but not really surprising when I think of all the odd bits and pieces in my stash.

90F outside, but she still bundled up in it!

Most important were the fabrics from my father-in-law's shirt and my mother's stash.  Those were very meaningful to Middle E to have in her College Quilt.  Here's the story.
front 4.51 yards + back  2.67 yards = 7.19 yards

I also recovered a roll pillow to match her college sheets.  0.25 yards

I am way behind on stash reports so I will just work with the present and try to catch up on anything else later.



Fabric Purchased This Week: 0 yards
Fabric Purchased YTD: 36.74 yards

Fabric Acquired This Week:   0
Fabric Acquired YTD: 18.98 yards

Fabric Used This Week: 7.44 yds for college quilt and pillow
Fabric Used YTD: 41.42 yards

Fabric Stashed in 2017: 14.31 yards stashed

I'm so happy to be back at the sewing machine and moving fabric in the right direction. 

Staying accountable with quiltpaintcreate.

May Your Compass Always Point North - Finished

One of the biggest challenges for me - ever!

May Your Compass Always Point North

The compass, calculating the black borders, floating the stars, planning the ribbon border, the quilting, just about everything.

Happy "client"!

 I am pleased with all that I accomplished and learned along the way.

Corner detail

You can read the story of this quilt HERE

Lots of math, but it worked!!

There are definitely things I would do differently if I ever did it again, but overall I am satisfied.  

Good for bundling

Middle E is thrilled with it and that's what really matters.

Dedicated to Abuelito & Grandma

Linking up to Confessions of a Fabric Addict to show off finishes. 

May Your Compass Always Point North

Middle E's college uses a compass as one of its logos.  So she chose a Mariner's Compass quilt.  Even though I have always liked the Mariner's Compass design, in all honesty, I was scared to actually make it.  But I did quite a bit of research and just started slowly.  Of course I was so intent on what  I was doing I forgot to take pictures.

Approximately 600 pins to hold it all together!

I worked with the school colors - maroon, gold, and black.  On our trip to Guatemala my mother-in-law gave me several of my father-in-law's old shirts to sew with.  He had passed away in the Spring and she also sews, so she understood my desire to have the shirts.  One of the shirts was maroon, so it was just perfect.  The calico that is paired with the largest solid maroon compass point is from my mother's stash.  So Middle E is taking her Abuelito and her Grandma with her to college.  That is important to her.

Little S enjoyed spraying out the blue ruler lines

I had tried paper piecing with some of the Dear Jane blocks, with not much success.  But after studying up more on the process I did fine on the compass points.  Even using regular copy paper didn't cause any problems.  Probably because the compass was so big.  I made it super big, because I figured if I got one good compass sewn that was going to be it.  Realistically I knew I was unlikely to make several.

Making progress.  Thinking about the next quilting element.

First I made the compass and then she looked at several layout options and choose what she liked.  She wanted stars and "frames" separating each "round".  Since I am best when I can make up things as I go along this worked perfectly.  We just decided each round as we came to it.  I took the math slowly and was successful although I had a scare (false alarm) when I went to attach the ribbon border.

Check back on Friday to see the finished quilt. 

Linking up to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts to show off our design walls - or floors in this case!