I’m aiming to get a bit of control on my love of buying fabric, so this year I’m tracking my stash, as suggested by Carole of From My Carolina Home, for example in her post for Stashbusters February 2024.
I’m grateful to Jeni from Incolororder for her spreadsheet to track usage, which I got from her post How I track my stash.
I finished one quilt
I had one finish in February: the grey-yellow HSTs that I haven’t blogged about yet. This is a baby quilt, only 36″ by 38″, that I’m calculating at 3 yards altogether.
Three quilt shop visits seemed necessary
I realised I needed wadding to finish Jools’s quilt, and it seemed like too good an opportunity to pick up a few extra bits from Cotton Patch to add to my order of assorted wadding.
Then I needed a specific extra fabric to finish my Klimt star, and called in at Sew Creative – where a few more fat quarters jumped into my basket too.
And then I also needed green thread for Jools’s quilt, so took a detour to go to a shop new to me – New Stitches near Andover. Result: another jelly roll and a few fat quarters.
I find duvet covers hard to resist
We needed a new duvet cover due to the old one getting worn out, and I added one in (allegedly) “gold” for the Klimt star that turned out to be a dark mustard colour that went quite well.
A couple of extra covers jumped into that order from Dunelm, and I was proud of myself for actually deciding that I did not need them and returned them. Sadly, the display of teddy bedding at a very cut price near the checkout undermined my resolve and a double teddy duvet came home with me.
Overall, a lot more came in than went out
I didn’t do a post for January – that was 6.1 IN, nothing OUT.
February Fabric IN = +20.1
February Fabric OUT = –3
February Net Total ( + In, or – Out) = 17.1
Year to Date (net total for the year, + In, or – Out) = 23.2
Getting to balance 