With my fun Birthday/Olympic sewing, I got two more auction quilts done. Hopefully it won't be so grey out tomorrow for some pictures.
My stash in this week includes several solids I got from the Fabric Shack. I thought - hey, they should put the color name on the edge - and finally realized I could do it myself!
My stash in this week includes several solids I got from the Fabric Shack. I thought - hey, they should put the color name on the edge - and finally realized I could do it myself!
I kept the handy little photo checkout sheet they give you for an online purchase. They are pretty color accurate.
Then I matched up my pieces with the printout. Also having a couple different cut sizes helped, too! Then I used my water soluble pen to write the colors name on an edge. It seems like a pretty good plan.
Then I matched up my pieces with the printout. Also having a couple different cut sizes helped, too! Then I used my water soluble pen to write the colors name on an edge. It seems like a pretty good plan.
Busted: 4.444
Purchased: 8.26
Net YTD: (23.108) so that's two weeks in a row of MORE stash....oooops!
Purchased: 8.26
Net YTD: (23.108) so that's two weeks in a row of MORE stash....oooops!
Ticker Tape auction note - the auction was last night and a friend that went updated me. The quilt went for $400.
10 comments:
What a great idea to just write the names of the colors on the selvage. I recently bought about 20 different colors of Kona cotton (primarily blues and greens), then when I was ready to work on the quilt, I didn't know which color was which, and had to go back to the store. I cut little pieces from the selvage of each cut and taped them on a piece of paper, matched them from the bolt, and wrote the name of the color down on the paper.
I think $400 is pretty good. You're right, it could have been much worse. With a few exceptions, I think that usually a handmade quilt does not go for nearly what it is worth, which can be very disappointing.
joan
$400 is not to shabby :)
I have a Kona cotton fold out card that I bought online, it's great because you can use it to match colors when buying and incase I forgot what one is called I can match it to the chart as well. I got it from Pink Chalk fabrics and highly recommend spending the money on one, I find it soooo helpful.
so wish i would have thought to write on my Kona as well...thanks for the tip!!
Angela,
Congratulations your quilt most likely was the largest auction purchase, even though it was probably worth a lot more, maybe you can figure the amount of time you spent as your personal donation as well. Great idea to label your solid fabrics!!
As usual, I wish I had the stash to have to be so organized with it. How much of a color do you buy? Do you buy more thinking backing?
Happy belated birthday by the way.
I think for our little auction, our quitls that are made sell for I think 200 each, so 500 is AWESOME! I think it looked wonderful!
400!!! that is amazing. i am so glad for you. less than that would have been kind of sad. great idea for the stash.
400 sounds good to me! Not sure if I could get that at my school's auction. Good call on labeling the fabric. I just had the same problem...wish I knew what color that was...
nice stash additions!! and good idea writing the name on the selvage... as for the auction.. $400 is great.. unfortunately non quilters don't know the value of our work... i had a piece go for $125 at a charity auction once and they thought it was great... later i cried.
what a GREAT amount of cash raised for your school!!!
love the color tracking idea, too. so smart of you.
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