Kelsey Creates: {the Purge} Week 1

Have you heard about the purge by Rachel of Stitched In Color? Its a chance for all of use to work through the fabric in our stash that just doesn't excite us any more for one reason or another. Then Rachel is hosting links to show off how we used it every other week.

For myself, I knew exactly what I wanted to tackle. Over the last few years I've been quilting, I've managed to accrue a number of stacks of fabric that were purchased and set aside for a specific project. But if I didn't start the project right away, they ended up languishing on my shelves, mocking me for not having started them yet, making me feel guilty that I need to do those planned projects before I start new projects I'm inspired to work on right now, and not being a useful contribution to my stash since they are already reserved.

It's not that the fabrics are by any means ugly - many of them are great, but its just the fact it was a project I never started, and now the excitement when I first bought fabrics for them has dwindled and it feels more like a burden to complete them. To such an extent for some months now I've forbidden myself to buy fabric for a specific project unless I was able to start it immediately, so it wouldn't continue to pile on.

So for my part in the purge, I'd like to work through those backed up stacks of fabric and actually turn them into the projects I intended them for.

So first up I brought out my Chicopee that I bought to make this quilt. This quilt is destined for our bed - this will be my first time having a legitimate quilt for my own bed - woot woot!

So far, I've already been able to complete the top:

Chicopee quilt top complete #thepurge #fcmqg

It sure felt good to free up those 26 comic book boards these were taking up in my stash. :) And double bonus, I'll be showing it at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Festival next month!

<3 Kelsey

Linking up to:

Show and Tell Tuesday: http://ihavetosay.typepad.com/randi/show-and-tell-tuesday/

Fabric Tuesday: http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/2014/07/fabric-tuesday-and-new-pattern.html

KelseyJuly 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM

Thanks. :) And I must be honest, I definitely had to rip out some of those points and re-do them to get them to match up to what I wanted. I don't know what I was thinking doing this without starching. (Well, actually, I know exactly what I was thinking, which was not wanting to wait to get started until I could buy some more starch! But I question past-Kelsey's priorities there. ;) )

KelseyJuly 18, 2014 at 4:28 PM

Thanks. I'm quite excited for it to be on my bed. Amazing how actually starting helps rekindle the excitement you had for a project that has lingered. :)

KelseyJuly 23, 2014 at 9:28 AM

Each edge of the triangles is 11" finished. I knew I wanted them to be large, and I picked the final size in order to optimize what I could get from the fat quarters that I had.

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{the Purge} Week 1

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