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Okay, so last time the stash ran the score up to 136 quilts that I have all of the materials for, 39 of which have been started and are therefore officially UFO’s. Now here’s the thing about 1) keeping track of your UFO’s and 2) publicly writing about them: your friends will “help” you.  Without being asked.  And they’ll enjoy it.  A little too much. Allow me to explain:  Among other things that I happily spend my time on is a stitchery group.  We meet a few times a month and some of the other ladies also quilt.  We had...

Okay, so to recap from last time: 125 quilts that I have all of the materials for, 38 of which have been started and are therefore officially UFO’s.  One of those UFO’s was a baby quilt for Spouse’s cousin that I had started on short notice and had not finished in time for the shower.  In my defense it was a little bigger than your standard baby quilt; at 54” by 66” it was more the size of a play mat.  But I still felt bad to take the unfinished top away from the parents at the end of the...

Okay, so to recap from last time: 125 quilts that I have all of the materials for, 38 of which have been started and are therefore officially UFO’s.  To try and pare these numbers down a little, maybe I’ll tackle some of the quilts that are closest to being finished.  So here goes: Here are two quilts from a Mark Lipinski class several years ago that only need borders.  They use the same fabrics in different patterns, and I still like them both.  After looking around, it seems that the reason they don’t have borders is that I didn’t buy...

Make no mistake: I have stuff.  I have lots of stuff.  Every hobby I have, and I have many, needs its own area for gizmos and gadgets and supplies galore.  I am a proud member of We Who Make Stuff, and people like me seem to collect tools and supplies as easily as breathing.  Some mornings I wake up and seem to have more stuff in my sewing room than I had the night before.  We Who Make Stuff euphemistically call these piles “stash” and say that we “need” it create the things we make and to better pursue our...

A few years ago I started writing a newsletter article for my local quilt guild. It was called 'The Stash Is Winning' and was about, well, my quilting stash and my ongoing attempts to tame it. There aren't too many of these articles because the newsletter is only printed bimonthly but I'm going to post them all here. First and foremost because I want to share then with a wider audience and this is my own personal forum, and second because this forum contains crafters. Crafters who must sometime face their stash. Every craft has an opportunity for stash, some...