Summer Envy is complete! Including label and binding! The quilting was pretty quick – just an easy swirl. I used 6 ½ bobbins of thread and while watching 7 episodes of “When Calls the Heart” on Netflix. Season 3 is now available in Canada. And – just for the non-Canadians reading my blog who have watched this series: the Mounties (also called RCMP: Royal Canadian Mounted Police) do NOT wear their red serge outfits for normal work, only for special ceremonies.
The binding is the left-over trimmings from the back of “On Ringo Lake.” It is a perfect match! (Probably because it’s from the same fabric line! ~grin~ )
PHD in 2018 Update
On Ringo Lake and Summer Envy were both completed this week! WhooHoo!!! That makes for a total of 12 UFOs completed this year. And 2 big quilts this week! (Yes, I did complete a retreat bag, but that was started this year, so it’s not a UFO and doesn’t count towards my PHD in 2018!)
Stash Report
- On Ringo Lake: Used 23 yards
- Retreat bag: 1.25 yards
- Summer Envy: Used 16 yards
I went shopping yesterday … just for some med-heavy weight interfacing. I’m out and there’s a sale on. Of course, I had to check what else is in the store and ended up buying 1 ½ yd of flannel for backing and ½ yd for accent. This is for a baby quilt that I NEED to make. I hope the baby is a girl, ’cause I bought pink. If the baby turns out to be a boy, I will have to
go shopping again, uh, shop my stash!
Fabric Used this Week: 40.25 yards
Fabric Used year to Date: 92.1 yards
Fabric Added this Week: 1.5 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date: 10 yards
Net Fabric used for 2017: 82.1 yards
Linking to:
To see what other’s in the quilting world are working on – click on the following links:
- Sunday Stash @ quiltpaintcreate
- Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun than Housework
- Peaceful Sunday @ Janda Bend Quilts (Click on the blue frog to see other links).
- Mali Sparkles @ Sunday Stash
SEW – Since I originally said that in order to get your PHD you had to finish at least half of your UFOs or a maximum of 28, I will stick to completing 28 UFOs and finish all new projects that I start in 2018. I’m finding that 28 is stressful enough, 30 would be over the top for me!
It will take a bit of time to get this one quilted. I’m doing small feather wreaths in the white blocks and outlining the coloured blocks. Slow going!
Benartex had a contest on Facebook and I entered a quilt that I had made years ago with their fabric. No, I didn’t win. I didn’t even come in the top half. But that’s OK. Just for entering, I received a very cute charm pack. It’s called “A Moose for Christmas.” It’s in the process of becoming a table runner. This is the first design / fabric placement layout … there’s likely to be many more before I start sewing it together. It’s fun to work with these fabrics because they are so very cute! And the colours suit me and my house.
adhesives etc. but they are fantastic for cleaning your machine. They were on sale … so was some fabric and I looked at the fabric and quickly looked away. And then I was chatting with the gals in the shop and I looked some more and then the wagon broke! In my defence, the neutral fabric is for backing a quilt! The colour is not true in the picture. The top fabric is actually a beige/cream and the bottom is a pretty blue. A VERY pretty blue. A lovely lovely blue. Did you know that blue is my favourite colour? 
together! Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s put a dent in my 2″ square box. Hmmm, I think that what they say about scraps having sex and multiplying must be true!
The other project that I’m working on is sorting through all my fabric. The corner of my sewing room looks like this:
Another UFO is completed! YEAH!!! I only consider fabric used when the quilt is done, done, done … finishing a UFO makes me very happy!
I finished my Love Letter’s quilt!!! 
Quilting Gail 