Stash report week 17

Used this Week: 10 yards
Used year to Date: 41.6yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 20.1 yards
Net Used for 2011: 21.5 yards

Not much sewing, but LOTS of purging on Sunday. I went through a couple more boxes of my mother-in-law's stuff that was still sitting in the living room and tossed quite a bit of it. 10 yards is a pretty conservative estimate.

And now for something completely different

Spring break here! Saturday I went thrift shopping with The Lovely Daughter; yesterday we all went to Hershey Park. Today was *supposed* to be a rest-up day, but The Lovely Daughter had a party to be driven to and the Small Man decided it was TIME to make chocolate pizza. I have no idea where he got this idea, other than it was likely at school, but it was fully formed. I modified a refrigerator cookie recipe from Betty Crocker and patted enough of the dough into a pizza pan to what i thought was the right thickness, and baked it.


Small Man explaining how it needs to be done:


So I put on the chocolate frosting-from-a-can, and he got to work:




He was very intent, and made sure nearly every square millimeter was covered with some sort of candy:






And we had one very happy and proud Small Man at the end of it. (It was yummy!)

Stash report week 16

Used this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 31.6yards
Added this Week: 14 yards
Added Year to Date: 20.1 yards
Net Used for 2011: 11.5 yards

I took a hit this week, but it was worth it :)
6 yards of one material at $1 per yard, 5 yards of another at $2 per yard for backings. And then three yards of fun flannel for PJ pants.

Stash Report Week 15

Amish Diamonds: 35 x 53. This is quilted and more than half bound, so I'm calling that stash busted. The 1.5 yards added is what came home with me from the "FREE - take me home" box at guild meeting on Monday.

Used this Week: 6 yards
Used year to Date: 31.6yards
Added this Week: 1.5 yards
Added Year to Date: 6.1 yards
Net Used for 2011: 25.5 yards

I've committed to donating the kitties quilt for the Karate Kid's karate school auction, to raise money for their trip to Austin to compete in the Junior Olympics, so that will be DONE in the next week or two.

Stash Report Week 14

Used this Week: 0 yards
Used year to Date: 25.6yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 4.6 yards
Net Used for 2011: 21.0 yards

"You do the most intriguing things sometimes."

This is what TMOTH said as he walked by this afternoon as I was sewing down yet another half-inch square with a sequin and bead.

Last weekend's sit-n-sew

No finishes for March :(

I did have a GREAT time at our guild's sit-n-sew, and made some progress on UFOs.

I spent most of my time on this:


Lots of floor space to put down the painters tape to mark off my quilting lines. Close-up here (quilting lines will eventually go the other way to make diamonds):


This started as last year's guild challenge, until it became clear it was getting too big. This was the March UFO. It now has its borders and I've started quilting it - in the ditch, with the quilting lines continuing in the borders.


I also finished the background for a blue/purple/orange channel:

Bunny art

The other evening TMOTH was trying to get some paperwork printed for one of the kids, and the Small Man was badgering him with questions and trying to impress him with odd facts.

At that point, I rooted around in our junk closet, found an old watercolor set and some brushes, and asked the Small Man to come in the dining room with me, so we could paint! He was perfectly happy with this, and we painted awhile, and then I told him I would teach him how to paint a bunny.

This is what I painted (along with instructions about how I do it - paint the ears first, add the head, then the body, then the feet and tail):


So Small Man painted along with me, then on his own added green eyes, a red mouth, and whiskers, and grass underneath:


We finished up and went up to bed. The Lovely Daughter came down and found the supplies, and painted this:


This from someone who told me recently she doesn't like watercolor because "you can't fix your mistakes."