I'm SO Ashamed...
Shelina
asked me about my Japanese Quilt (UFO - fancy that). So I thought I'll find the blocks and the stash and I'll take photos, so that all these unfinished quilts will be REAL, and I will have to finish them.
I got out the Japanese section of the stash (under subsection Asia-Pacific), and for the first time I felt ashamed! All that beautiful fabric, hidden away, forgotten, unloved and unused. Some of the stuff I had actually forgotten that I had. Oh the shame...
Is this a common feeling amongst Those Who Stash? Here I am thinking I'm NOwhere near as 
bad as some of you ladies (no offense intended - if anything I am in awe), and here is all this beautiful forgotten fabric.
I have made 26 of these blocks, and when I look at the photo of the quilt there are only 30. But I'm nowhere near finished - I always have to make it bigger - always straight to the big quilt that will never get finished.
This is the book that the photo is in. I might make this quilt into my leader ender quilt so that I get started on it again. It's a very easy design. Judy Turner says in the book that she based it (and all the quilts in the book) on the idea of tatami mats that are a basic rectangle. In Japan they build rooms around arrangements of them on the floor. The room size depends on how many mats there are. 
Thanks Shelina for making me get it out!
Your Japanese fabrics are very pretty. I don't have Japanese fabrics. Hope you will work on your quilt and post your progress. It might motivate you to kee working on it. Since i have been blogging (1 month) i have been finding some time nearly every day to do something quilty.
ReplyDeleteThat was quick Cynthia. They are lovely fabrics. I am definately sewing more since I have started to 'fess up about my UFOs.
ReplyDeleteSIGH! I have a stack of those lovely oriental fabrics just languishing in my stash cabinet. I really need to find a perfect project for them one day. But they're just so pretty to take out and pet every so often. :-)
ReplyDeleteThis will make a lovely quilt. I have seen a finished large quilt in this pattern and it was fabulous.
ReplyDeleteWhile it's true that I have a huge stash, and it's true that I've forgotten much of what's in it, specifically, I do have them categorized, like you. It doesn't make me feel ashamed, because I know the day will come when I'll need that fabric and it will be as fabulous as shopping for it the first time, as I try to figure out just which pieces to use. I have an Asian category. Two 29-qt. drawers of it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad Shelina inspired you - it's going to be a wonderful quilt. Good idea making this your leader-ender project. No reason both projects can't be something you really want to do.
ReplyDeleteThose are such pretty fabrics. I would be happy to take that fabric off your hands if it would help relieve you of your guilt....
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I have a stack of African fabric. Haven't forgotten it, but am trying to think of a plan for it. Your layout would work for it.
Sigh. Have so many quilts I want to make. They are all trying to fight for a priority spot on the list.
wow, what a beautiful stash! now I have to run and find my bin of Japanese fabrics, too...
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