Hi all and Happy Independence Day for those in the US. It has been a great week for me as I am coming off two weeks of family vacation (will save that for a separate post) and have this week off of work for a company shutdown. This is the first year my company has offered a summer shutdown and I am loving it! In addition to giving me time to finish all the vacation laundry, it has given me time to stitch, quilt, and crochet, along with catching up with a few shows on Netflix.
I am getting ahead of myself though, as I wanted to share what I did in June! It was a tale of two halves of the month - the first half which included some good stitching time, and the second half, which was vacation. I did take a few projects with me on vacation and I had one stitching finish, which is my only one for the month. This is the Mill Hill Menorah kit that I will give a friend for Hanukkah. She loves to collect menorahs, so I will make this into a magnet she can put on her fridge.
On the quilting front, I worked on a project from my 12 Things list and a UFO this month. Let's start with the UFO. I made this mini quilt called Periwinkle at one of my quilt retreats several years ago. I had no idea when I selected and cut the green fabric that it would come together so well in the piecing! I didn't know how to quilt it so it sat (like so many of my UFOs), but I put it on the frame and started and it was done in less than an hour! I was glad to find some complimentary green in my stash for the binding, and had this one done by the second Saturday of June.
The other project I worked on is the t-shirt quilt for my friend at work. It is a semi-commission quilt, as she will pay me for the materials and quilting. I had been slowly working through stabilizing the t-shirts over the last few months and decided to see how they'd all fit together. Imagine my surprise/pleasure when they nested together just about perfectly! There was one extra t-shirt that didn't fit, but she didn't mind leaving it out. I was really happy to get the top done in June and I also got a fuzzy backing for it so it would be ready to quilt when I returned from vacation.
After that, we headed out on vacation and I did just a little stitching and crochet while on the road. More to show on those next month. I did visit one quilt shop along the way and picked up a few fat quarters. I let my mom pick two and she kept the top two.
Overall, I had 7 3/4 hours of quilting in June and crafted 16/30 days for a 53% crafty rate - my lowest month for the year, but that's okay. Glad to still have half of the days with a needle, thread, or fabric in my hands!
For the stash report, I used a little more than I added, so I am still moving in the right direction:
Fabric added this month: 1/2 yard
Fabric used this month: 3/4 yard
Fabric added year to date: 4 1/4 yards
Fabric used year to date: 19 1/2 yards
Net fabric used: 15 1/4 yards
Hope you had a great June - I will be back soon with vacation pics and a mid-year check-in of my progress on my goals and lists for the year.
I am getting ahead of myself though, as I wanted to share what I did in June! It was a tale of two halves of the month - the first half which included some good stitching time, and the second half, which was vacation. I did take a few projects with me on vacation and I had one stitching finish, which is my only one for the month. This is the Mill Hill Menorah kit that I will give a friend for Hanukkah. She loves to collect menorahs, so I will make this into a magnet she can put on her fridge.
On the quilting front, I worked on a project from my 12 Things list and a UFO this month. Let's start with the UFO. I made this mini quilt called Periwinkle at one of my quilt retreats several years ago. I had no idea when I selected and cut the green fabric that it would come together so well in the piecing! I didn't know how to quilt it so it sat (like so many of my UFOs), but I put it on the frame and started and it was done in less than an hour! I was glad to find some complimentary green in my stash for the binding, and had this one done by the second Saturday of June.
The other project I worked on is the t-shirt quilt for my friend at work. It is a semi-commission quilt, as she will pay me for the materials and quilting. I had been slowly working through stabilizing the t-shirts over the last few months and decided to see how they'd all fit together. Imagine my surprise/pleasure when they nested together just about perfectly! There was one extra t-shirt that didn't fit, but she didn't mind leaving it out. I was really happy to get the top done in June and I also got a fuzzy backing for it so it would be ready to quilt when I returned from vacation.
After that, we headed out on vacation and I did just a little stitching and crochet while on the road. More to show on those next month. I did visit one quilt shop along the way and picked up a few fat quarters. I let my mom pick two and she kept the top two.
Overall, I had 7 3/4 hours of quilting in June and crafted 16/30 days for a 53% crafty rate - my lowest month for the year, but that's okay. Glad to still have half of the days with a needle, thread, or fabric in my hands!
For the stash report, I used a little more than I added, so I am still moving in the right direction:
Fabric added this month: 1/2 yard
Fabric used this month: 3/4 yard
Fabric added year to date: 4 1/4 yards
Fabric used year to date: 19 1/2 yards
Net fabric used: 15 1/4 yards
Hope you had a great June - I will be back soon with vacation pics and a mid-year check-in of my progress on my goals and lists for the year.
Comments
The T-shirt quilt will be so much fun for the owner to look at through the years. I had always wanted to do something like that for my sons, but never got around to it. And now the t-shirts are no longer around. Oh, well!
Glad you've enjoyed not only two weeks off but the third week of a company shutdown. Do they do that to save money? Hope it's not too difficult to return to work next week!