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    Quilt Paint Create stash report for 2/8/2026.

I'm working to sew every day or do something in the studio.

	Used this Week:	11.58 yards
	Total Used Year to Date: Donated fabric	25.92 yards 0.25 yards
	Net Stash used in February	12.91 yards
	Added this Week:	0.00 yards
	Added Year to Date:	5.25 yards
	2026 Goal:	200.00 yards
	Yards to the goal:	174.08 yards

Trinket Trays

Pizza Box Quilt

Flamingo Quilt

String of Hearts Bag

Chicken Star Bag

Thread Catchers

Prairie Moon is not doing a 350-block challenge anymore ...

Good morning, my friends. For as many times as we've been to Death Valley, I didn't think there were any more surprises there for us. Yesterday, we visited Dublin Gulch, which isn't technically inside Death Valley. Instead, it's in the tiny town of Shoshone, California just to the south of the park. What an interesting place! As usual, I took too many pictures. I'll tell you what I know about it, but if you're interested, you can read more about it and see more pictures right here.

Within just a few minutes of leaving ...

Good morning, my friends. For as many times as we've been to Death Valley, I didn't think there were any more surprises there for us. Yesterday, we visited Dublin Gulch, which isn't technically inside Death Valley. Instead, it's in the tiny town of Shoshone, California just to the south of the park. What an interesting place! As usual, I took too many pictures. I'll tell you what I know about it, but if you're interested, you can read more about it and see more pictures right here.

Within just a few minutes of leaving ...

The Project Quilting Challenge for this week was about something from another era. Well, instead of looking backwards, I decided to go forward. I’d had an idea for a BTS-themed denim jacket for my sister. My sister is a huge BTS fan and we are lucky enough to have gotten tickets to see them later this spring. I’ve been loving the denim jackets I’ve seen with quilted insets and wanted to create BTS’s logo on a jacket. I pieced the logo and then quilted it directly to the jacket back with a layer of thin batting ...

 It is happening, the lengthening of the days I mean. It is already noticeable but of course, we are still under banks of snow and will be for several more months. March can be our snowiest month here so I won't be seeing buttercups any time soon. But still, the tiny steady slivers of extra light each day add up. 

And I finally managed a photo to show why this fellow is called an Eastern Cottontail. Isn't it cute! I called all rabbits "bunny rabbits" growing up. Did you?

It's been awhile since I updated the Colorful Cats list so here you go!  kittyandme.etsy.com

COMPLETE LIST OF COLORFUL CATS 

 310 (exclusive) - Keepsakes Cross Stitch 

Acorn (exclusive) - Acorns And Threads

America (exclusive) - Stitchery X-Press 

Antoinette 

Applejack 

Blizzard

Bluebird

Bubbles (Free Birthday Cat - join Fans Of Kitty And Me on Facebook and sign up) 

Bumblebee 

Butterfly (exclusive) - Cross Stitch Boutique 

Candy Cane 

Candy Corn 

Celebrate 

Champagne 

Cherry Berry 

Cobweb 

Confetti

Cupcake 

Cupid 

Delightful (exclusive) Needlework By Jim

Easter 

Egbert 

Emerald 

February 

Freedom 

Frosty

Fur Elise

Gingerbread 

Gingham 

Grapevine 

Hollyberry 

January 

Jeannie 

Jelly Bean 

Jingle

Jubilee 

July America 250 ...

For Sunday in the Art Room, I am sharing some of my favorite creations. Some of them I still have but some of them were sold. 

 Sorry I did not get a post of some finishes up for you this week.  I actually had quite a mess on my hands.  I started going through our shelves of fabric.  My plan was to just go through the RWB shelf but I was knee deep in fabric for quite a few days as I went through and organized all the fabric we have.

That was a project!

There are so many thoughts going through my head this morning. I heard some disturbing things yesterday. You've been in this situation - you might have been on a train, at the grocery store, in the airport, at the dinner table, and what is everyone doing? 

They are on their phone! And what are they doing? Endlessly scrolling through countless Social apps -- Facebook, IG, X, Pinterest, Facebook, IG, X, WhatsApp, X, Pinterest. It's ENDLESS scrolling. 

The sad thing is that you are devoting YOUR PRECIOUS hours left in your life to being entertained by total nonsense! What are you ...

Our first drive with the MINI club was this weekend. Everyone was excited to get together again and drive our mountain roads. Even with it still being winter, with no leaves or flowers yet, the countryside is still beautiful. It had been raining up to half an hour before our meeting time, and the skies were still overcast. We started out at a local grocery store parking lot to meet and have our driver’s meeting.

Then we were off. No rain fell on us during the drive. It was overcast most of the way to the interim stop. Since ...

No change in the numbers.  There was opportunity, but no need or desire to add to the stash.

I now have 20 striped blocks made, and today is decision time.  I need to choose a setting to determine if I need more blocks.  I also need to decide if I’m going to donate the quilt, which will have a bearing on size.  I have no idea which way it will go.  It depends on what the quilt has to say about it.

I have plenty of fabric left to make more blocks if needed.

Fabric Added: 0

Fabric Used ...

We are settling into a new rhythm after all the changes earlier this month.  It will likely change again, but probably not for a couple of months.  I'm back to my normal sewing room times which made for a good week on the stitching front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Feb = 21/21 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 52/52 days
• Success rate = 100%

I sewed the right edge column of blocks together for the medallion quilt and made the half blocks to finish the length of both columns and now I need to just think about what is next for that project.  Meanwhile I looked for an easy project to sew last night.  I had some stratas sewn and prepared to cut 16 patch blocks, maybe made last year or the year before.  This group of 10 blocks would be suitable for a baby quilt.  I'll look in the Kaffe orphan block box and see if there are any more in there ...

Ray has been busy. Getting a few of the community quilts off his stack is his goal. Lucky for us, we get to enjoy them. Ray writes: This is a really fun kid’s quilt from Kathy W. in NM. Look at all those fun loving dinosaurs running around and playing in this quilt. Happy, happy, happy. I just …

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