Final Stash Report and Quilts Finished in 2017

2017 was a big year for me as far as stash acquisition. I added 255.25 yards this year, an all time high.  My stash usage was also at at all time high, 155.75 yards, thanks to the many quilt finishes I have had. For the past 5 years, my goal was always to use more fabric than I bought.  I didn't always reach my goal, but I was at least trying.

2016  20.875 yards added
2015   6.357 yards used
2014   2.5 yards added
2013   9.5 yards added
2012   20.25 yards used

This year, I wasn't even trying.  For the most part, I bought what I wanted when I wanted.  I have plans for most of it, but not all of it.  In 2018, I'm hoping to rein it in a little and use up more of what I bought this year. I won't need to be as frugal as I was in the past since I'm working a little,  but I don't have as much time to sew as I used to either.  

I have one quilt at the longarmer's and eleven in my closet waiting to be quilted, so I almost met one of my goals this year:  to have no more than 10 unquilted tops in my closet.  Four of the tops I got rid of were donated to charity, unquilted.

I ought to go through my sewing room, take inventory of my unfinished tops and set a UFO goal. I know I have fabric for 4 OBWs.  One of them should be done in January.  One of them has been cut, and the other two are waiting.  I have three Bonnie Hunter scrap quilts in progress, enough string blocks for a top, a paper pieced project, 2 more graduation quilts to make and give by May.  I have also started a block a day quilt, which I abandoned in March of last year.  There is a shop challenge that I need to have pieced and quilted by April.  I have a hunter's star quilt, barely started. I have 2 Charlotte Hawk's mystery quilts in progress:  one is just waiting for a border and one is in pieces.  I have a new Dresden quilt ruler that I'm dying to try too.  Enough to keep me busy in 2018!

I completed fourteen quilts this year!

Thimbleberries (Given to my sister Karen):

Project of Doom 3:

Talkin' Turkey:

O Canada (A wedding gift):

Janie's Dogs (this quilt is shown unquilted, because I neglected to get a picture of the completed quilt):

Allietare:

Stars Around the Corner (Given to my cousin, Sarah):

Goose In the Puddle:

En Provence (Given to my sister Martha):

Rolling Waves (Given to my sister Julie):

Shaggy OBW (Given to Sandra, my bunko buddy):

Arrow Point Path:

Here Comes the Sun (A Christmas gift for Nicole, my nephew's fiance):

Urban Nine Patch:

Linking up: http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-sew-together-bag-for-emily.html

P.S.  I added 11 more yards of fabric a couple of days ago, and I need to get it in the last 2017 report, so I can start 2018 with a clean slate. ( Mind games.)  So my updated numbers are  265.25 yards added and 155.75 yards used for a final total of 109.5 yards added.  I feel like I'm making a confession!