I enjoyed making this quilt for many reasons: I love making stars and the size is so much smaller than the other quilts that I usually make. I quilted this by myself. Most of the larger quilts I can't even imagine doing on my sewing machine. I usually take them to a quilter that lives close to me. I will finish the other boy baby quilt today and I will post a photo of it as soon as I can.
Fabric Organization
Yesterday, I mentioned the book, "the life-changing magic of tidying up" by Marie Kondo. I took some photos of some of the things that I do to keep my stash in some kind of order. I must say that in the past, I could not find fabrics that I know I had purchased but had not used. I just flung the fabric that I just purchased into any place that I could find space and it was hard to find it when I finally had the time to use it.
I use two types of boxes, a small square, 12" x 12" and a larger box, 15" x 17." The smaller box is full of fat quarters and the large box has fabric that are large cuts.
This view is from the top. I put all of my red/pink reproduction fat quarters in this box.
They are all upright so I can see most of the fabrics and I can pull one out and easily put it back in the box if I decide that I don't want to use it.
This is the larger box and it is also the view from the top of the box. I put the red/pink fabric upright so I can see most of the fabrics.
While I was folding the fabric, I pulled out the one's that I thought I would never use and always questioned myself with "Why would I buy this piece of fabric?!" I pulled it out and decided that I would try to sell these fabrics at my quilt guild to a person who would love to have more fabric to add to their stash. We have a lovely Country Store and the consignors are so talented when they make quilting items to sell.
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