Stash Report and A Quick Fix

I haven't had a stash report since the middle of Oct. since I haven't had any changes to report until now.  I used about a half a yard for binding on a quilt this week and gave away a little fabric to a quilting friend who is making a scrap quilt.

 Used This Week:  0.75 yards                                                    
Used Year to Date: 67.875 yards
Added this week: 0 yards  
Added year to date: 71.625 yards
 Net Added:  3.75 yards

I started the embroidery on one of the POD blocks and quickly realized that the title was going to be way off center. I don't chart out titles before I stitch them because most to the time it doesn't matter if they are exactly centered.  This one, though, looked bad to me.    I didn't want to rip out what I'd already stitched, so I completed the embroidery and then fixed the block. 

Here's what it looked like at first:

See how much blank space is at the top of the yellow block. 

 

I trimmed a little off the center block to center the title.  Then I trimmed off the background, sewed the block back together with all the books touching, and added background to bring the block back up to size.

 

 

That little change makes the block look a lot better.  It took about 5 minutes to do.

 

 

To see more stash reports:  http://www.patchworktimes.com/2014/11/02/stash-report-week-44-2014/