stash report 10, 2021

the only changes I am making to my stash report is to add fabric. I really like scrap bags and I added 3 more to my stash. These were an eclectic mix. I should be able to separate them and actually use them.

 stash report October 10, 2021

Fabric Used this week: 0 yards    

Fabric Used year to Date: 150 yards

Fabric Added this week: 5  yards 

Fabric Added Year to Date: 126 yards

net fabric: 23 yards used more than bought 

 I stitched at least 15 minutes only 3 days this week. 

But, I have started spinning again in the evenings on the weekends. This yarn is one of our sheep to shawl wool yarns. We bought a dirty wool fleece and washed it several times. Combed it, carded it, and spun it. It is more of a white cream than the picture shows. There should be enough in a fleece to make a sweater, but, that is still a long way out for me. Any way, I plan on working on it a little at a time to make progress since there has been so much work invested so far. I think we bought the fleece in 2015. Spinning  wool is very relaxing and even biblical.

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sunday stash at quiltpaintcreate
patchwork and quilts

15 min to stitch at life in pieces

first quarter projects

I have a few projects I hope to finish in the first quarter of 2018. I have started and hope to finish a turtle quilt for my Grandson.

I waant to quilt Bonnie Hunter's  Easy street quilt

and a stack and whack butterfly quilt

We have finished with the fleeces and they are all packed away in the shed.We didn't mark this one to know what sheep it is. a mystery

and I have transferred my next rug hooking project to linen.I used red dot to trace the pattern from a magazine print out. and then used a sharpie to transfer it to linen. It's a Polly Minnick pattern called Uncle Sam's hat. It will be a big rug about 24 in x 51 in.

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and the 2018 finish along




I did some research about our frigid temperatures this winter so I am including it in this post for my journaling. Our lowest was -16 on many days in a row.


Bomb cyclones often draw colder air in from the north, then blast out icy temperatures.

They frequently occur in North America, when cold air collides with warm air over the Atlantic Ocean -- though they've also been reported in eastern Asia and South America.

The bomb cyclone now blasting the Northeast actually doubled the rate necessary to earn it that classification.

It rapidly intensified overnight, undergoing bombogenesis -- or a pressure drop of 24 millibars in less than 24 hours.

This bomb cyclone dropped 53 millibars in just 21 hours, intensifying faster than any such occurrence in recent history.

Wednesday and Thursday’s blockbuster ocean storm, or “bomb cyclone,” plastered the East Coast with blinding snow and stinging winds. From North Carolina to Maine, numerous locations witnessed double-digit snowfall totals while winds gusted 50 to 80 mph. The storm will also be remembered for the enormous amount of ocean water it pushed ashore, causing near-record high tides and major flooding in eastern New England.

The storm managed to generate all of these impacts because it intensified so fast. Meteorologists measure a storm’s rate of strengthening by monitoring its pressure; the faster the pressure falls and the lower it sinks, the stronger the storm becomes. A storm whose pressure falls 24 millibars in 24 hours is classified as a bomb cyclone. This storm’s pressure fell at more than twice that rate: 59 millibars in 24 hours, which put it into the upper echelon of the most explosive East Coast storms ever observed.

Here’s just how much snow, wind and water this explosive storm produced:

• Bangor, Maine: 18.3 inches
• Cape May, N.J.: 17 inches
• Islip, Long Island: 15.8 inches
• Atlantic City: 14.2 inches
• Providence, R.I.: 13.3 inches
• Boston: 13.2 inches
• Portland, Maine: 11 inches
• Ocean City: 11 inches
• Hartford, Conn.: 10.2 inches
• Salisbury, Md.: 10 inches
• New York City: 9.8 inches
• Norfolk: 10 inches
• Philadelphia: 4.1 inches
• Richmond: 2.4 inches
• Annapolis, Md.: 2 inches
• Washington, D.C.: 0.8 inches

baby gift

I am in need of a quick baby gift - this Saturday. I have several baby girl quilts at the ready, but I need a boy gift.

I have these precut fleece boy squares, I think that should be quick enough. I don't like wrestling fleece, but I can manage.

I was able to get this far in an evening. Meanwhile, I have been restoring this doll I made in the 90s. She had been hiding in a  rubbermaid box in the garage . I thought she was safe enough. But squirrels are the devil. She needed elastics fixed, and cleaned  really well. I had made several and sold most of them. I kept one for my daughter - brown haired, brown eyed beauty. And this one for me. I was glad to re find her. I used to know the name of the porcelain mold, but I don't now. Oh how I loved them. Does a girl ever outgrow dolls?

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