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Articles on 9 December 2008

• Stop the Presses! I Actually Made Something Out of Stash Fabric!

  Posted: 9 December 2008 at 10:57 a.m.

  Will wonders never cease? Believe it or not, I actually made quilts (three of them!) from stash fabric. It's like a Christmas Miracle! It's the New Me! If I keep this sort of thing up, soon I will have the strength of ten Grinches. (plus two!)

  About three years ago, I made a Log Cabin in the barnraising set out of 1930's fabrics for my church's fundraiser.

   

  I didn't know how big I wanted the quilt to be, so I just started cutting one and a half inch wide strips, and forgot to stop cutting. Before I knew it, I had enough strips to make a quilt large enough to keep an entire Amish family snuggly warm throughout a harsh winter. Since we don't exactly have lots of Amish families at our church, what with being a congregation of lutefisk eating Lutherans and all, I decided to just make the quilt a generous queen size and call it good. The leftover strips, all forty eleven thousand of them, were jammed into a giant Zip-Lock bag and shoved into the back of a drawer to continue to age.

  Occasionally I'd stumble across the bag ...

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