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January 7, 2013
New Year's piecing, and The Annual Reckoning from With Strings Attached


HeartStrings had a New Year's weekend challenge. I made 52 blocks with purple centers. I assembled 48 of them on New Year's Eve.




Easy Street, Step 7....it's coming together!

This all-cotton, twin-sized bedsheet (Salvation Army, $2) will make a good backing for Easy Street.


And now, on to business:  

This is the fifteenth year that I have kept track of the fabric I've acquired and used.  Counting acquisition is easy. Counting use is trickier. I count the square inches in each block (e.g. a 9-patch made from 3" squares is ((3"x3)x3) = 27 ...

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January 2, 2012
The Annual Reckoning, Orca Bay 7, and Final Piecing of 2011 from With Strings Attached

Since 1998 I've kept track of the fabric I've used and bought.  My tally method is idiosyncratic. It works for me; it may not work for you.  I count quilting and fashion fabric but not vintage textiles.  Expenses are for fabric but not for batting, thread, magazines, books, patterns, or long-arm (professional) quilting.  
The most significant accomplishment for 2011 is that I bought 31-5/8 yards of fabric and I used 307 yards.  I am truly proud of myself for my restraint and I hope that I can maintain the new behavior in 2012.
Here's what I ...

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