Spend a little, Save a little!

Jill's latest question is about saving money while quilting.  Jill asks:

Since I have been learning how to coupon and save money, I'd like to know how you save time and money while quilting. Share any and every way that you can. Nothing will be considered silly if it saves either time or money! And you may be doing something that the rest of us have not thought of.

I guess my biggest way to save is to stay home!   If I'm not there, I can't be spending!  But sometimes you just have to have a 'fabric fix'.  So I try to use coupons or hit sales, like this weekend is our LQS's big sale.  I plan on at least getting the larger Tumbler Die for my Go Cutter. 

I'm not one to give up on fabric either.  I still have a tub of fabric from the '90's-mostly calico and homespuns.  I'll keep it for a bit longer, just in case I need it.  Even though when I look at some of it I wonder "What was I thinking?!"  One item I had purchased years ago was some 'rougher' muslin...well it's come in handy for the deer bologna we make.  My DIL sews the bags and  the bologna mixture is stuffed into the bags.  When I bought it I never dreamed it's be used for deer bologna!  I have no idea what the original use for the muslin was to be!

I also look online for free patterns.  My Documents folder is full of patterns I've found online here and there.



How Many Projects?

Jill's Year of the Pigs question for this week is Do you work on one project at a time or are you better when you are juggling two or more?

I usually only work on one project at a time-until I get to a hard place and stop, put it away and start another one.  That seems to be my makeup in all areas, whether it be quilting, paperwork, housework(what's that?!), or even reading books.  It's one thing at a time or not at all.  But I may try to start keeping several projects easily accessible in case I get bored or frustrated.  I would at least be getting something done instead of avoiding it altogether. 

Here are a few projects in the works:

A quilt for my granddaugher

(I secretly refer to this one as Marshmellow Peeps Train Wreck due to the pastel colors!)

The Purple Pansy quilt(STILL waiting for borders!) 

The Disappearing 9-Patch.

This one is just for fun. 

And oh there are many more but these three are probably the top of the list