A tower of cushions

New sofas at the beginning of March meant new cushions were needed!

Husband had recently suggested I make "something useful" (as if my quilts aren't useful!)  So the new sofas gave me an excuse to cut into the hoarded decorator weight fabric.

I have spent the last couple of weeks sat on said new sofas hand sewing the binding onto these (I am very slow at hand sewing!)

Fabrics (all from the stash): Amy Butler Nigella & Joel Dewberry Ginseng from Millie Moon
Bindings are various Kona solids from Simply Solids 



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The Lazy Stash Quilt

When I first started quilting I saw  beautiful quilts made from this fabric on Crazy Mom Quilts.  I loved the fabric and hunted it down.  

This stack of fabric then sat on my shelf for a very long time.  I was too scared to do anything with it.  I needed to find the right quilt, the one that would show off the fabric beautifully, the perfect quilt design.  

Then at the start of the year I decided that this was going to be The Year of the Stash.  I was going to cut into this and lots of other fabrics. I still have half yard cuts of most of the prints but I cut the rest up into useable squares and strips and then I sewed lots of 8" squares together.  I made some of the squares up of 4 smaller squares to add a little detail. 

It came together really quickly and quilted easily.  More Hushabye was used on the back and for the binding.

It's my perfect spring quilt.

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March Plans & the Year of the Stash

March is going to be about finishing things off.  Mostly things that I didn't quite get around to in January or February.

I am continuing on with my Year of the Stash project too.  The only new purchases so far this year have been thread and batting. My project from January is just waiting to have the binding hand sewn down.  

I can't spend March just working on unfinished projects though so I have been looking for my stash for some new projects to start.  I have quite a few fat quarter and fat eights stacks in my sewing room waiting to be transformed into something.   This little stack is Lizzie by Anna Griffin and has been in my stash for 18 months.  It's going to be turned into a quilt for a baby girl in the next couple of months.

I also have some end of bolt cuts of home decorator fabrics.  We have new sofas arriving this month and the husband has suggested I make "something useful" (like quilts aren't useful?) so these are going to be turned into cushions (pillows if you insist!).  

The year of the stash (includes giveaway!)

I like fabric. I have a lot of fabric. Sometimes I hoard my fabric and don't make anything from it. In fact I have a lot of fabric I like which I sometimes hoard and don't make anything from. Part of the reason I dont use my fabric is I can't quite decide what to do with it, not enough ideas and sometimes too many ideas. So 2012 will be different. I am not going to make any resolutions about not buying fabric as that would just be silly and I may have already bought some this year already! But I am going to try and use some of the fabric I have and love. So each month or two I will be picking a different selection of fabric from my stash, asking for ideas and cutting it up and doing something with it. As a little thank you to all the lovely bloggers and followers out there I may even have some giveaways!

Hushabye by Tula Pink

Those are 1 yard cuts, which is a lot of fabric that I couldn't decide what to do with. The husband (not usually known for his quilting wisdom) asked why I had never made a "proper patchwork quilt?" He means one made out of squares so I decided to stop procrastinating and cut this into squares with some squares made up of smaller squares. An instant gratification project and hopefully I will have gotten over my fear of cutting into it! 

And then just yesterday Katy announced her Swoon-along quilt along using Swoon by Camille from Simplify.  I couldn't resist so 18 fat quarters of this will be made into a Swoon quilt provided that I can master flying geece.  It's going to be fun so join up!

There is still a lot of fabric left! Ironing and cutting this fabric took a long time so when I was doing it I decided to cut some layer cake and charm pack sized squares and some jelly roll strips ready for making quick projects. I know a few babies due this year and thought the colours in this would be perfect. 

 And now for the giveaway bit! I am giving away a pack of 42 5" squares to 2 different winners. This time you don't have to be a follower but thank you if you are. Just leave me a comment either telling me what from your stash you have been hoarding or a pattern/idea for a jelly roll, layer cake or charm pack which you think would work for this fabric.  It's open to all and I will draw a winner next Sunday.