Belated February Stash Report and Goals Update

February was a fun month. My friend Cherie came to visit for a few days and we went to QuiltCon together. We had our own little retreat at my house - we worked on a collaborative project which we prefer not to share. 

February was also a very busy teaching month for me, with three of the lessons of my 6-lesson color class to prep for and teach. One of my students gave me the best compliment ever: we were talking about the usefulness (or not) of our stashes and she said "I wish I'd had this class $10,000 ago." 

The PebbleCreek Quilters are getting a brand new Innova M24 long arm machine in March. Thank you, PC HOA! We anticipate it being delivered and set up next week. Several members of PCQ have their own Innovas and they will be the SuperUsers who will train the rest of us. They'll have in-depth training from the installer when he sets up the new machine. For the rest of us, there was an overview and Q&A training session a couple weeks ago. I attended it and got on the schedule for hands-on training later in the month. 

The small Irish Chain variation top that I made for Community Service will be one of the quilts used for our long arm training, so I pieced a back for it and turned it in. The club will provide the batting and someone will bind it. 

All this to say, February was a busy month, but I don't have much to show for it. 

I bought one yard of fabric at QuiltCon; that was my only purchase there and my only stash enhancement this month. 

February Stash Report

IN this month: 1 yard

OUT this month: 3-1/2 yards (light blue Irish Chain top, 2-1/2 yards; backing, 2 yards.)

IN YTD: 8-1/4 yards

OUT YTD: 4-1/2 yards

YTD Net change: 3-3/4 yards added

Goals Update: 

February Recap:

1. Prep for lessons 3, 4, and 5 of my color class. Teach lessons 3 and 4. DONE.

2. Prep for and work on a previously started collaborative project with Cherie when she comes to visit. Yes, and I totally enjoyed Cherie's visit. 

3. Attend QuiltCon. YES! We definitely enjoyed the show.

4. Continue piecing the teal value study project. Progress, four blocks made.

5. Attend the first training overview meeting for the new long arm. Yes, and I'm scheduled for hands-on training later in March.

6. Continue piecing the Scrappy Pinterest Project at social sewing. Yes, I was only able to attend Social Sewing once but I actually got a dozen little blocks made. 

7. Prep a backing for something in anticipation of using the long arm at some time in the future. No, but Cherie took two of my tops to quilt, one with backing already assembled, the other backing  just needs one seam.  

March Goals:

1. Prep for and teach color classes 5 and 6.

2. Prep several projects to work on at retreat in early April.

3. Attend hands on long arm training.

4. Continue piecing blocks for the teal project.

5. Prep a backing for the red Cherry Jubilee top. 

6. Continue working on the scrappy project at social sewing.

7. Participate in Sewing Club's charity project at first Wednesday social sewing. 

I'm going on a 4 day retreat in early April, so I'll need to prep projects to work on. Apparently I'm a fast maker so I need enough projects prepped to keep me busy for all four days. 

I have a postage stamp project started, a Kaffe flying geese project started, and I could take the teal project. I also have strata left over from the postage stamp project that I could do something with; I have an idea, we'll see if it works.  

There's also a project box with some Log Cabin Triangle variation blocks in it that I should take, too. 

Maybe I need to check my UFOs and see if there's something else I should take to work on.