Stash Usage

Stash Usage: Sister's Choice: 2 yards greens and beige.

Most of the Sister's Choice quilt was scraps which I wasn't counting.

Year total: 24yards (isn't this pathetic? I have hundreds of yards!)

Hearts Block

Here's a great stashbusting pattern to try! Now, granted, I'm making this primarily from precut 2 inch scraps, but if you strip pieced it from your stash, you'd be done with this quilt in no time! Darlene, on the Stashbusters list, recently posted a photo of this block that inspired me. I looked and found the same block done in one of Shar Jorgensen's early books. That is what my 4 heart block is based on. You can use any size square. The white strips are a little smaller than the finished squares. Just looks better that way. In the hopes of actually using this quilt sometime during the winter, I'm thinking of quilting it section by section and putting it together like a reversible quilt. That will also use a bunch of stash for the back since the pieces only have to be a tad larger than this block.

Sister's Choice Stash Usage

Here's the Sister's Choice quilt. Although mostly scraps, I did use about 2.5 yards worth of stash yardage and fat quarters for it. The backing and binding will also be from stash! Most importantly, my 2.5 inch square box has been emptied a lot. This great stash using pattern is known as Farmer's Daughter, although identified by Bonnie as Sister's Choice. Here's a link to Bonnie's version as well as a link to the pattern.
http://www.quiltville.com/sisterschoice.shtml.