2012 MONTHLY Stash Busters

We certainly accomplished a LOT with the "Stash Buster and UFO Basher" last year, so I will be organizing a similar activity this year! However this year, we will be focusing entirely on shrinking our stash. An additional change this year is that we will be doing it on a MONTHLY basis. There will be a small prize for each monthly winner. But...there will also be a GRAND prize for the gal who is the overall monthly winner at the end of the year! So this year, it will be little steps (monthly) to master a huge accomplishment: BUST THE STASH!!!!

In 2012 we will be focusing on trimming down our stash. You know how many resolutions involve weight loss and slimming down?! Well, instead of working on our body...we are going to work on our stash!!! lol To be a member of this group you are encouraged to USE THE FABRIC IN YOUR STASH that was purchased prior to January 1, 2012. You may start new projects or finish old projects- but choose the fabrics from your stash. (Anything purchased during this 2012 year canNOT be counted as part of your stash!) You will need to keep track of how much fabric you use out of your stash each month. The easiest way to do this is measure your fabric piece before you use it in a project and then measure your fabric piece after you are done using it. That will help you determine how much fabric you have used! Even easier-if you use only fabric from your stash for your quilt, the pattern you are using will tell your yardage. Who wants to join me on this quest to shrink our waistlines...er, I mean stashes???

I know several of you who have that competitive edge and will be enticed by this challenge! Sometimes a task (e.g. shrinking your stash) can be better accomplished with a 'support group' cheering you on! "YOU CAN DO IT!"- yelled while shaking my pom-poms (how's that for support?)!!!

So, let's take it one month at a time! Tell us about the project you are working on that is helping you deplete your stash. You are encouraged to post pictures of your projects! And remember to post the yardage you use from your stash each time you complete a project!!! (YES, a quilt top will count as a completed project- even though it is not quilted! Oh- and don't forget to count the yardage you used to prepare a backing for the quilt top!) Remember: you cannot count any newly purchased fabrics for your project....ONLY what you use from your stash.

If you need to buy some fabric to complete a project...we promise we will not bully or intimidate you! Our goal is to see how long we can go without purchasing fabric and to see how much fabric we can use up from our own stash!

GO, STASH BUSTERS, GO!!!!

STASH yardage used during the 2012 year was an amazing 1,179.67 TOTAL YARDS:

Andrea- 11.02 total yards

Betty- 196.15 total yards

Deb S.- 42.6 total yards

Diane- 333.86 total yards

Froggie (Linda)- 4.5 total yards

Jan- 177.75 total yards

Lynne- 89.2 total yards

Marcia- 111.75 total yards

Pat A.- 117.99 total yards

Peg- 64.75 total yards

Shirley- 13.5 total yards

JAN. Stash Busting Queen- Betty (33.6 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 178.7 yds

FEB. Stash Busting Queen- Diane (38.5 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 88.94 yds

MAR. Stash Busting Queen- Diane (70.46 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 135.21 yds

APRIL Stash Busting Queen- Diane (29 yds)/ TOTAL yardage for group: 73.72 yds

MAY Stash Busting Queen- Lynne (39 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 86.65 yds

JUNE Stash Busting Queens-Jan & Peg(34.25 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 99.68 yds

JULY Stash Busting Queen- Diane (54.54 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 166.69 yds

AUGUST Stash Busting Queen- Diane (25.63 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 53.63 yds

SEPT. Stash Busting Queen- Betty (36.04 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 84.17yds

OCT. Stash Busting Queen- Diane (36.38 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 91.18 yds

NOV. Stash Busting Queen- Betty (35.92 yds)/ TOTAL yardage for group: 59.47 yds

DEC. Stash Busting Queen- Diane (22 yds)/TOTAL yardage for group: 61.63 yds

Formula to help you figure yardage of your project: multiply number of inches for width times the number of inches for length and then divide it by 1,296 inches (which is a square yard: 36" x 36").

WIDTH x LENGTH divided by 1,296 = your total yardage!

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Permalink Reply by Shirley Phillips on January 24, 2012 at 3:54pm

Deb, you designed that? Wow! I really like it! I can see why you were having problems not having like colors together! Great job!

Permalink Reply by Deb Semmens on January 24, 2012 at 4:44pm

Shirley, check out my blog if you want the rest of the story on this quilt. http://iowacomfort.blogspot.com/

Permalink Reply by Linda Hiatt on January 24, 2012 at 5:58pm

Nice job on the quilt Deb, I like it.

I had no idea you had a blog....good job with that too. I enjoyed reading and admiring your work.

Permalink Reply by Shirley Phillips on January 25, 2012 at 5:15am

Deb, great blog! Interesting read!

Permalink Reply by Peg on January 24, 2012 at 4:49pm

Deb - It looks great!! I'd never know you had issues with it if you hadn't told us. You need to write a pattern for it but leave out the problems - lol

Permalink Reply by Betty Snyder on January 24, 2012 at 7:47pm

Deb I really like your quilt, very pretty. I like that scrappy. Good Job

Permalink Reply by Jan from Iowa/Arkansas on January 24, 2012 at 9:44pm

Betty and Deb, love the quilts. They are both so bright and colorful - lots of movement. Good for you both.

Permalink Reply by Jan from Iowa/Arkansas on January 26, 2012 at 7:04am

Marcia, I finished making my Infinity scarves. You can add 8 yards to my monthly total. I got 12 scarves out of the 4 pieces of fabric. Don't know if I'll get anything else done this month as we will be gone this weekend. Oh well, there is always next month!!!

Permalink Reply by Deb Semmens on January 26, 2012 at 2:43pm

Just finished quilting my January scrap quilt. Feels good to know that I will have something to show at Circle of Friends in January that is on my Get R Done list......at least I think it is on the list.....I've managed to loose that also since I picked up things. LOL

Permalink Reply by Lynne on January 28, 2012 at 9:30am

Add 1/3 yard for the initial wall hanging (picture to come when I get it back from the framer) and 6.5 yds for "The Great I Am".

Permalink Reply by Deb Semmens on January 28, 2012 at 1:38pm

Now if I was truely onry....I would calculate all the fabric that we used today at the community sew day.... It all came from my scraps/stash. But I think that wouldn't be in the spirit of the contest..... So I will just show you all the pretty pictures in the future, and only count yardage for the quilts that I sew the tops together.

But as a teaser (cause I'm to exhausted to do it today) we have 4 twin/ doubles completed, and have 4 more almost finished. I would have been happy with 3.....so it was a very good day!

Permalink Reply by Jackie Orton on January 28, 2012 at 1:45pm