May Fabric Usage

Happily, May felt like another productive month fabric-wise, with three quilt finishes:

• Snippets, made completely of my stashed Carolyn Friedlander fabrics
• Plus, begun with squares of original Cotton + Steel fabrics left from a previous project, and filled in and finished with stashed C + S
• Mixtape, made primarily with the scraps from Snippets

Add to that another nearly finished quilt, a new clergy stole for our son, bee blocks and BOM blocks, and let's just say the fabric usage added up. That said, I did bring in two cuts of fabric - 1) backing fabric for the aforementioned nearly finished quilt, which required something particular; and 2) a yard of CF Doe Grid, which I totally used up in Mixtape, and I couldn't bear to not have in my stash. Actually, what I got is in a different colorway, but was what I could find. I'll take it.

In addition to the fabric I used in projects, I also took several yards to leave on the free table at our recent guild meeting. Hopefully that old adage, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" rang true. Not that it was trash, but I thought someone else could use it better than I.

So here are the stats for May....

May Fabric Usage

Used up: 24.32 yards [15.63 projects + 8.69 recycled/donated/gifted]
Brought in: 5.0 yards 
Net: -19.32 yards

I'm looking forward to seeing where June takes me, as heading in, it is pretty commitment-free, sewing-wise. That said, assignments for June bee and BOM blocks have suddenly appeared, and I dove into a new project last night. So far, so good!