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Welcome to the 2012 Stashbusting Thread.

I am Gonesewin and I will be starting a new thread for each month for everyone to post pictures (If at all possible) or tell about your stashbusting efforts. It does NOT have to be quilting! This can be any kind of sewing!

There are just 2 rules to join us: what you make make should be mostly from stash and it should be finished during the month you post it as finished. There are no signups, or swapping or... Just this thread. Everyone is welcome!

cksvett has graciously volunteered to send out surprises each month. Your name will be entered each month when you show or tell us about your stashbusted project. On the first of the month when I start a new thread, someone from my family will draw a name and the winner will be posted on that new thread. If your name is drawn please send your mailing information to cksvett so your surprise can be mailed to you.

New This Year ! Royalboomer has graciously volunteered some of her "extras" as prizes too! So what I am going to do is this: Those who finish bigger projects or do multiples of 5 smaller items from stash will also be put into a separate drawing and one will be awarded a prize from Royalboomer each month!

Cool Beans, huh?

SEW, let the stashbusting continue!

This month's Stashbuster Extraordiaires:

Elainetoo
City/Sandie
AngelaC
mcpatches
gardenpat
HandieAnn
Will Quilt for Chocolate
Sue B
craftyrad
sewlove2quilt
Mary J
royalboomer
goaskmom
Marion2
DJBrown
Mountain Laurel
cksvett
SavedSinnr
knot me
Mary J

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ok, so now I can show my stashbusting effort - one of them anyway - that I finished in April...This is the quilt I made for the Project Quilting/Needlework Challenge #2. It's called Summer Daze are Like Dancing Stars.

Looks like somebody has claimed the beauty!!!

Gonesewin, that sure is a pretty quilt.

Gonesewin'.. beautiful quilt.

Here's what I was working on the last couple weeks. Finally finished it today, It's an adaptation of the Summer Banner that Marion2 links us to the free site daily. Finally I have something for Mary and June for the front door.

That is reallly pretty elainetoo!

Gonesewin - loved your quilt when I saw it for voting and still do!

Elainetoo, I've saved that pattern and would love to do it. Was it hard? Did you use all cottons?

Lori, your quilt is beautiful and it looks like someone is saying this is mine and you can't have it!

Elainetoo, what a beautiful adaptation of the banner. Clever!

Gonesewin - that is a really nice quilt!

Elainetoo--Your banner is just beautiful. I love all the embellishments.

quote:

Originally posted by mcpatches:
.... Was it hard? Did you use all cottons?

Simple. All cotton except for the yellow flowers - rick rack. Well, of course, the buttons..

Here's the May thread

Here's the great stashbusting box I won for April! It had some gorgeous blue snowflake material, two green/blue FQ, a book of fabroc boxes, two magazines, a spool wallhanging pattern, a little iron, FMQ gloves, and 4 blocks of a beautifully colored string block quilt. ( I love it! Do I get the rest of this quilt later? LOL ) Love everything in the box!

On to more stashbusting!

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Wowsy .. May is off to a great start .. that quilt is beautiful .. looks pretty hard though, adn the wall hanging is really cute.. good job ..
and that BOX looks like it was fun
Thought I'd add a picture ... these are for the wonderful gal that did the flute concert for Kai and played again at her memorial service. They are microfiber - it's 2 towels and the one with the diagonal strip is sort of a cleaning cloth. Everything is stash except that dark not-ruby piece.
Those Prairie Points are made all in one strip, no special tools ... easy.

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Great stuff being made this month. I've managed to get a couple of things done...my lastr for a little while since I'll be having a knee replacement bright & early Monday morning...

I did a row of 4" blocks for the COF row robin project, but I can't show it

And I made an ice pack sack out of a really old (like 30+ yrs old) bath towel- you really don't wanna see that

And I made a 6" ticker tape mug rug...didn't use much, but, it was stash! I can show you that...

I did Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay mystery, but changed it up a little. I put blue where she had red and red where she had blue (had more blue than red scraps). Also, there were supposed to be black and white pieced triangles (like in the border) on either side of my blue stip triangles, but I put white. I also made it a bit smaller - left off one column on the side and have enough to make a baby quilt out of the leftovers.

I really like your Orca Bay quilt McPatches.

The mug rug is cute and the towels are a clever idea to dress them up.

As usual very nice work ladies, Gonesewin and Mcpatches love your quilts!

Beautiful work ladies!! That Orca Bay quilt is just gorgeous.

Like the prairie points on the toweling as well....you have an "easy" way to do this??? Inquiring minds want to know...ok, I want to know pretty please

Lori - your quilt is gorgeous. I love the model too! I love checking in on this thread. I just started a new project, but it's not from stash. So, I probably won't have much to show this month. You guys do awesome work and I love checking in here!

My goodness!!! It's only May 6th and look at all the wonderful things made!!! For me, Orca Bay is only a downloaded pattern! Love itm McP!!

AngelaC- nice mug rug and you'll love your new knee!! Good luck with that tomorrow!! (I have 2 of them!!)

Nice towels, CitySandie! How is that microfiber to work with?

Elainetoo- that banner looks wonderful, but intricate and hard to do!!! I have a door that it would fit!

Lori- I love your Summer Daze quilt- where have I seen that pattern before and drooled over it? I remember thinking that it looked WAY too hard for me to do! You are the master!!!

Finally, I have a quilt top finished! My 100-patch quilt! Used 1824 two inch squares (all from stash as was the sashing!)

It may be a week or two before it is quilted.

pat

Whatever it is you did MCp - it is just beautiful ... great job.

Wowsers!!! What a wonderful showing of projects. I am never disappointed when I check in here. Great job! I love it all & I am very impressed with all I see here.

I just finished this king size quilt for my DD. It is all from stash including the back.

Great start this month everyone.

Wow, that is a lot of little squares Garden Pat!

Chris

I'm learning about Zentangle and loving it. Saw a quilt tutorial for a Zentangle inspired quilt and had to try it. Here's mine...all from stash!

Beautiful things posted already this month.
I just had to say tho, that zentangle is fantastic. I love doing zentangle, but have not seen it applied to quilting!! I will have to try that.
Thanks all for sharing!
grami

My grandson thinks it looks like a squid ...

Ok this one is a for a baby started in April and finished May 2. the material for the top and back has been in my stach sence 2006. sence katrina took my statch. I had to start over. well I have more that my 10X10 room can hold.
the only part that is new is the batting.

Back

I have never heard of Zentangle but I love that quilt! All the others are beautiful too...I will have a couple stash busting projects done over my off days..so will post in a couple days, maybe I'll figure out how to post a picture!!

That is really nice Sue .. looks so comfy.

Sorry I haven't been keeping us up to date - - you all are putting out some good stuff!

Will Quilt for Chocolate -- I love that wh - where'd you find the tutorial???

gardenpat - it's a Judy Martin pattern she calls Apron Strings. It was probably the easiset one in her book Stellar Stars.

Happy to share! Here's a link to the tutorial that inspired mine. Since it was my first, I simplified mine quite a bit. I love hers though...absolutely loved it!

http://zanyquilter.blogspot.co...-quilt-tutorial.html

Oh gosh! That Zentangle brings back memories from over 50 years ago (sorry to say it was that long)in art class. Our art teacher was trying to inspire us to be "free thinkers" by having us free form draw (scribble)an unbroken line around and across again and again. Then we had to fill it in with different colors in each section made by the line. It was one of my favorite art projects and I used to have my kids do it at home. Teaches good color placement lessons, etc. Maybe I will try this when I get my new machine. Looking for one with a needle threader and up/down. Can't decide.

Great projects ladies! Beautiful work, keep up the good work.

If you have the money, I recommend the Brother nx 2000 - It's worth every penny!

I think Gardenpat is the "Queen of Quilting".....
how do you get so much sewing done???? Looking for hints here

Quiltnanny- . Trust me, I am in no way a queen of quilting!!! The quilts I make are easy piecing!

While raising 11 kids, I found that I needed to find things that were:
A.easy to do,
B.fast to do,
C.inexpensive and
D.deceptive when finished so that people would think the finished product must be really difficult to do!!

(Kind of like the old commercial where the mom makes the Rice Krispie treats and throws flour all over herself before she leaves the kitchen so everyone will appreciate how hard she worked!! )

That would be me!!!

Now, you and everyone else who might not have already figured this out know the truth!!

pat

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Finished a shirt for my little grandson. He's in Southern CA, so I thought the palm trees would be good. Guess this counts as stashbusting -- I bought the fabric several years ago to make a sundress for his sister!

WOW !!!!! AWESOME projects posted already!!

Here's a charity quilt I made. It wasn't my stash but think it counts...I was given a BIG box of pre-cut strips....some of this fabric is OLD!! I've already donated this and didn't get a finished pic. I pieced the center strip but it doesn't show up as well as I thought it would.

I'm also working on a scrappy log cabin...from this box & will post pic's when I get the top done. I just need to decide on what borders I want to add on it.

I still have LOTS of strips from this box...doesn't look like I used any!

Once again, lots of pretties!!!!

My church will be having a craft booth in July, so I will be donating these tissue holders, plus not sure what else I will make. Figured since we live in a very small town, small, inexpensive things may sell better. But, who knows!!

All fabric from stash!

..those tissue holders are so handy, I carry one that is getting ragged ... and the hice part is - it came iwth tissue in it to start with, so when I bought a LARGE pk at Sams club, I never ran out ,, the bad part is - the holder is running out!
Your holders are going to be a hit.

Here are 100 HSTs, 2" finished, made on paper (and a little bag of 20 that I kept out for myself) they're for a swap in the charity group I quilt with ,,, we were required to use the papers method so they were all alike - not everyone in the group is accomplished. Every piece is from stash. I thought it tedious, buuut ...
oh ...just saw it .. that little bag on the left is the practice sets I just did from the tute that STM180 posted .. ha, that's 16 more for me!

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..CBQ.. how about 4" of a dark purple?

I would say a border might depend on what you plan on doing with this quilt.

If you are going to use for just out on the couch it would be fine as is. If you have plans to put it on a bed it will depend on how much hang it needs to have over the sides if you should add more.

I think even a white border with a scrappy binding would be nice.

Sewlove2quilt- isn't that amazing that you can make a nice size project and yet you still have so many strips left over (for another project! )!!! Definitely happens at my house too!!!

CitySandie- your HSTs in the box look SO organized!! I'm jealous!!! My shoeboxes and plastic drawers full of squares, etc. are always crammed full and never look neat & tidy like that!!!

I'm 15 blocks into a 25 block scrap granny square baby quilt that will be about 40" square. It uses more 2" squares!! (How can it be that I still have some left from the 100 charm square quilt???)

It is using up 325 scrappy squares and 300 white ones. I still have MORE 2" squares left!!!!

Hopefully, it will be done this weekend!

pat

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Great job to all who showed their completed projects and it is only the middle of May. . Enjoy looking at all the stash busters and keep it coming. Sue

Here to join my big Orca Bay is baby Orca Bay. I made this with the leftovers from the big quilt (all blocks were already sewn per the mystery instructions). Since I was tired of all black and white, I added a red polka dot border from stash. It finished at about 54"x 42".

And I still have leftovers - about 172 of the triangle units! Any suggestions on how to use them?