Sew Your Stash (Long Overdue!) Update | Year End Review

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hi everyone I'm Whitney and I'm back with a very long overdue so your stash
update so I haven't posted a so your stash update since about the end of last
summer I had been posting kind of every other month updates until that point and
I kind of wanted to explain why and just kind of move on from this point forward
so last August we actually found out that I was pregnant and it is very hard
for me to get much of anything done during first trimester and then in
September we went in for a doctor's appointment and there was no heartbeat
on the baby so I had to go in the next week to have a procedure done and it was
very heartbreaking and I just could not talk about it for a very very long time
I did update the Whitney Sews Facebook page a few months later but I just couldn't
seem to voice out loud anything about it and at first I just kind of sat around
and stared at the wall for a while and then I did get to a point where I
started sewing again and I actually finished a project during that time and
it's a very special project to me I finished this quilt and you all saw
parts of it you saw when I finished the quilt top in my last update and then you
saw the video where I showed how to add binding but I never actually talked
about the completed quote and this quilt is so special for me because I started
it when we were trying to get pregnant with Payton my oldest she is three now
and it actually took us three years to get pregnant with her and so during that
time I had started this thinking maybe it could be a baby quilt someday and
yeah so then it I ended up not finishing it before I had Payton and then I just
stayed stuffed in a project bag for a very long time and then during this
challenge I decided to get it out and work on it so I finished piecing the top
right after that is when we found that we were pregnant so I
I could make a quilt for this beat I could finish this quilt for this baby
and then I finished it while I was grieving for our baby
so it's just very special and personal for me so this is one of the most
important things that I've sewn from my stash that I've completed in the entire
year that I was working on this challenge so the reason that I decided
that this was finally the time to just do an update and then move on from this
point forward was I felt like you all needed to know what had happened and
then once it was out where y'all knew then I could kind of move forward
because I'm probably not ever going to talk about all the projects I so during
that time since my last update there are just too many projects and I just I
don't want to talk about them but the reason I'm sharing this video today on
March 24th 2018 is today is actually my due date or was my due date so I've been
really wanting to make this video and I figured today would be would be the day
so yeah today is my due date and here is the update so let's move forward and I'm
going to talk about what my goals were for the 2017 version of so your stash
and then what I'm going to try to do moving forward so let's get on to
reviewing my goals from last year so my original goals for the challenge were to
go as long as possible without purchasing any fabric to sew more
projects for others to reach for fabrics from my stash that I hadn't reached for
in a long time different types of fabrics like home decor flannel fleece
those types things and then also to finish works in progress so for how I
did on the goals the first one of trying not to purchase fabrics for as long as
possible I did really good at that um I went several months without purchasing
fabric and then I did purchase a few fabrics here and there I had
specific things that I needed for projects like I purchased a material to back a
quilt with actually I did that twice and then I had to buy some blender fabrics
to finish some projects and things like that but overall I did really good I
didn't just mindlessly purchase them oh that's cute I want to buy it so not only
did I not add more to my stash to where it got even more overwhelming but I also
saved a lot of money which is nice one of my other goals was to sew for others
and this included things to give away and things to sell and I feel like I did
pretty good at that I sewed two different quilts for other
people I sewed a Star Wars quilt for a charity auction and all of the fabrics
for the top were from my stash and it turned out really cool I love how it
turned out and then I did purchase the material for the backing for that and
then I sewed a baby quilt from one of my YouTube friends who had a baby in
December and it was all from stash and it turned out so beautiful and I'm
really happy with how that one turned out I also did some sewing for others
for well I I made a few baby blankets that I was going to give to a friend who
was going to collect baby blankets for local hospital and then that kind of
fell through so I still have them I need to find someone to give them to and then
um I did so some things for sell some hats and some different things and also
I started my memory sewing business thanks to a friend who asked me to sew
some things for her so a friend asked me to make a denim rag quilt and some
things for a family member who had lost their husband and I really really really
enjoyed doing that and from that came my Whitney sews memories business that I'm
doing now where I make memory bears and different things for people so it is all
thanks to my friend and this challenge that I even took that project on and I
never realized how much I love doing stuff like that which is actually kind of counterproductive to this challenge
because the memory sewing that I'm doing does not use from my stash but I
absolutely love doing it and I will talk more about that in a
little bit so the next goal was reaching for fabrics that I don't usually work
with I did not do as well as this one as I would have liked so the fabrics that I
don't typically reach for are basically things that aren't like cottons so I
use a lot of like printed cottons in my projects for quilts and bags and
different things but I don't work a lot with like fleece leather flannel home
decor fabrics and those types of things that I do have a lot of but I am rarely
use in fact some of them I so rarely use that I actually store them in the garage
in places that are really hard to get to because very rarely do I need to get to
them but a few of the projects that I did make that went along with the
challenge are the car seat poncho that kind of actually started the whole
challenge and the neck warmer that I did a tutorial for the reversible bibs that
I made for my daughter Skyler I think that's it and I may have done a few
other things that I can't think of them right now but yeah not a whole lot in
that category so I need to do a little more work on pulling fabrics from other
other types of fabrics to work into projects and then my last goal was
finishing up works in progress and I think this one was about half and half I
did finish up two quilts that I love the one that I mentioned earlier this one
and then the quote that I had made for Skyler well I kind of talked to my mom
and to finishing that one for me but it counts so I did finish some projects but
I also started new projects new quilting projects that
I am far from finished with so I finished projects but I added new ones
so it kind of is a wash on that so overall I think the project was pretty
successful the challenge was pretty successful I was a lot more conscious
about my purchasing and I did clear out a little bit of space but overall I
probably could have done a little better but like I said I did kind of lose focus
from like August onward so I think had I stayed focused on the challenge for the
entire year I think it would have gone a lot better but sometimes life happens
and there's not a lot you can do about that um since the new year has started
so the first you know January February this much of March I have not hardly
sewed for my stash yeah I have made oh gosh how many lots of memory bears a lot
of memory bears one of them must from my stash the one I did a tutorial link
tutorial on which I can link right up here in the information icon I'll also
link the sailor stash playlist for some of you who haven't watched all the
videos up to this point the other ones are a lot more positive I promise um so
I'll have all those linked but I did use for my stash for my memory bear tutorial
and then I've used little bits here and there but since I am sowing memory bears
for other people they provide the materials so like clothing from their
loved one who's passed away or clothing their kids outgrew or that sort of thing
so it doesn't pull from my stash um so yeah so so far for this year I am not
exactly on a win for the challenge this year I am continuing the challenge
because I think it's definitely a good idea to always be really conscious about
what we're purchasing and not just buying everything that we like not only
for money saving but also for space and just
not accumulating too many things I'm trying to be a lot more aware of just
everything that I accumulate um because if you watch my vlog channel you will
know that we have a very cluttered house and I am slowly but surely working to
try to declutter and it is definitely a lot harder to declutter than it is to
gather clutter so I think if we are just trying to use what we have in the first
place it gets us off to a better start overall and this did not start out to be
a talk about decluttering and conscious living sorry about that
I'm just kind of talking from what I feel today so that's what you get yeah
so current projects that I have going on right now I'm actually making some
costumes for the Medieval Faire that's coming up if you've been with my channel
very long at all you know that every single year we go to the local Medieval
Faire it's a huge free event and it's the first week of April and we always go in
costume every single year and so this year we're doing kind of some unusual
costumes for us I guess so I just used a brown faux fur to make some pants for
Peyton so let that sink in I'll show the costumes later I'm also going to be
turning a tablecloth that was in my stash of vintage tablecloth into a skirt
for myself um so I am actually those both fit in the materials I don't use
often category so yes I am doing good for this year so we are still working on
my stash just not as much progress as I would like and I feel this is probably
weird because I started this video off sad but I think finally finally just
talking about what I've been through it's good
it's good I feel I feel good so yeah so anyway I will hopefully get better at
doing sew your stash updates there's the dogs that probably means
Jeremiah's home with Peyton so I better finish this so I hope you've enjoyed the
update make sure to check out the playlist if you haven't seen the other
videos already and subscribe so you see future tutorials and updates and I will
see you all again next time Bye
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