What have I been up too!

Some of you may be asking where did I go?

Well I am still here, just neglecting to update my status, since I didn't have much to update.

I found that too much of a good thing can be overwhelming at times.  So with trying to fit the stash from my mom onto the shelves and drawers I have, it just wasn't fitting very well at all.    It was overflowing onto my work surfaces and I just didn't feel like sewing or quilting if I had to move piles of fabric around all the time.

Well that just is not right, so after seeing and hearing about how so many are using comic book boards to wrap their fabric for storage and easy access, I decided to give it a try.

I bought 2 packages of 100 each thinking that would be plenty.  I would only put them on boards if I had a yard or more.  I don't have that much fabric and probably would have extra, right?

WRONG! 

I needed a 3rd package and probably could use a 4th, but I don't have the shelf space for the 4th, so the rest of the fabric will stay in totes until I sew some up to make room.  

Okay, so this is an eye opener as to how much fabric I really have.  Time for a fabric diet.  I will not buy any more fabric until the totes are empty and all my fabric fits on my shelves.  Some day I will actually add up the yardage because I labeled each board with the amount of yardage they contain.  This will make it handy for finding fabric for a specific pattern in the yardage I need.

Here is some of my yardage which is now much easier to see and get to.

And the fat quarters are also much easier to find the colors I want.

And now that my stash is organized for easy access and off my work surfaces, I am ready to start sewing like the wind... 

Let see what I can get done now...

Spring has finally arrived!

Okay so I have tried posting several times and keep getting sidetracked! 

So we went from ice on the lake to over 70 degrees in less than 3 days.  Crazy weather, but they do have a saying in Minnesota.  If you don't like the weather just wait a little while, and it will change.   

I missed the Get It Done link up, but here is my progress anyway.

My April progress was pretty pathetic...  I think I was down because of all the snow we were getting back then.  I needed spring to come!

• Applique Project binding ~ Done
• March BOM ~ Done
• April BOM ~ started

Sorry no pictures, but my camera battery needs charging and I was afraid if I waited until that was charged, I wouldn't get back to posting for another week.

I visited my mother for her Birthday at the end of April.  She turned 87.  

She doesn't quilt much anymore but she still has plenty of fabric.  So I acquired about 6 - 7 bins of stuff, mostly fabric.   Some will go to the school for their annual rummage sale, a few things are beyond use or repair and were tossed and the rest is getting organized into my stash.  

I am washing up the yardage.  The Double-knit that is cut up in squares will be made up into lap robes for wheel chair patients.   I think I will use my serger to sew those together.  The Denim I will use in a cute jeans quilt I want to make, so I will set them aside for that.   The white eyelet will make the centers for the blocks of a scrappy type quilt I like.   Luckily she also had plenty of white to that will work to layer between the eyelet and batting to keep it from poking through the holes.  I also acquired some eyelet edging that I think I will try using in a string quilt as one of the strings.

Just a couple more projects to add the my never ending list.   

So for May my plans are going to be simple.

Finish the April and May BOM.

Start this months Applique for class.

Continue cutting up the eyelet scraps.
And to get outside in my garden as much as possible now that spring finally arrived.