black white quilt

Midweek: stars aligned from With Strings Attached

I'll audition border fabric today.

And tidy up this mess.

Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss

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Midweek: a movie and 9-patch from With Strings Attached

Yesterday I met Lynn at the movie theater and we enjoyed the matinee performance of Hamnet. It was very good. I haven't read the book yet (I have it on hold). Lynn said the script followed the story pretty well, as it should considering that Maggie O'Farrell wrote the novel and co-wrote the screenplay.

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On the small screen at home: Netflix has all of West Wing. I hadn't watched any of it and I began bingeing it last evening.

Here are the scrappy black/white nine-patches thus far.

I calculated that the sashing requires 1-1/2 yards ...

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Weekly update: bunco, a surprise finish, and reading from With Strings Attached

S is getting more alert. His appetite is good. I will learn more when I meet with the care team this week.

The Zion Woman's Club spring bunco party was Friday evening. Everyone had a good time!

My friend Donna won the quilt I donated to the raffle.

I'm sure the club treasurer will have a glowing report at tomorrow's board meeting.

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Here's the ninth block for the guild BOM.

These are 8" (finished) blocks so the pieces were a bit fiddly to cut.

From "just a few more blocks" (Friday's post) to a finished ...

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Friday check in: grayscale, something new + reading from With Strings Attached

I got this far with the black/white/gray blocks . . .

And then at Rotary yesterday the president said we'll have a gift exchange at next week's meeting. $25 value. (Gender observation: the president is a woman. Would any group of men even think about a gift exchange?) Of course I'll need to provide Stevens' contribution as well as my own.

So here's what's on the cutting table. Two table runners coming up!

The AAUW luncheon is today, we're going to a dinner tonight, the P.E.O. luncheon is tomorrow, and we're going ...

added by Nann 1 year, 6 months ago. under black white quilt , finished or not friday , log cabin , reading

Midweek: a new flimsy + reading from With Strings Attached

A few weeks ago another torn-from-a-magazine pattern came to the top of the stack. It had been a while since I made a mostly black and white quilt. Cutting the strips was the easy part. I didn't have enough of any one black/white and white/black print for the borders and made a point of buying those at the Wisconsin quilt show.

The sewing wasn't difficult but I had to cut more strips and more strips. I arranged and rearranged to get the print density balanced. (And now that I look at it, more balancing might be ...

added by Nann 2 years, 9 months ago. under black white quilt , midweek makers , reading , wednesday wait loss

Weekly update: two finishes + the stash report from With Strings Attached

This week's walks were at Spring Bluff (close to home) and Ethel's Woods.

Vervain.

Purple coneflower, meadow sweet.

Sawtooth sunflower, white monarda.

Tansy, pinnate prairei coneflower.

There are signs at both preserves that explain the history of the property.

We saw the movie Oppenheimer on Saturday afternoon. We arrived in plenty of time, so much so that we had to sit through nearly a half hour of commercials and previews before the three-hour feature began. It was thought-provoking. Once I got home I looked up the people, some of whom I'd heard of but others who were ...

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Friday update: challenge completed + using left overs from With Strings Attached

My entry for the guild challenge is quilted, bound, and labeled.

This is all I will show you because it's a surprise. The reveal is at the September 6 guild meeting.

At the PieFest in 2008 I made a lot of red/black/white flying geese. They are 3" x 5-1/2" unfinished. I used five in this project.

I put the remaining geese on the design wall. I contemplated blocks -- Yankee puzzle, Louisiana, variable star -- but I wanted to get something done before I lost heart or got distracted by something else. I didn't fuss much with ...

added by Nann 2 years, 11 months ago. under black white quilt , can i get a whoop whoop , challenge quilt , finished or not friday , flying geese , omg 2023 , peacock party , rsc 2023

Friday check in: brrrr! and yet another flimsy! from With Strings Attached

It's cold and windy this morning -- temp is -4 and wind chill makes it -28, but the sun is shining. We had only 2" of snow out of the storm. (We lived in Maine and in North Dakota. We can get through this!) I've run all the errands so we'll stay inside today.

I was taken by one of Cathy K's quilts -- see this post -- and had to give it a try. I did it jelly-roll-race style by sewing the black/white/gray strips, adding a brightly colored patch, and repeating. When I had sewn a ...

added by Nann 3 years, 6 months ago. under black white quilt , charity quilts , finished or not friday

Helping Hands Scrap Quilt from Baby Boomer Quilting Bee

Once a year, our Quilting Bee exchanges blocks for as part of a challenge. My blocks were monochromatic and a variety of colors. The sashing is from 1-1/2" strips of black and white scraps and square cornerstones. It was interesting at best.

My though process .... I threw the blocks on the wall and started playing with variations. I settled on the black and white strips to even up the size of each block. The quilt was donated to our Helping Hands Program for children living in temporary settings.

No Pattern

added by Jamie Janow Elfert 3 years, 8 months ago. under bee quilt , black white quilt , helping hands , rainbow quilt , scrap quilt

Freedom Flyer Quilt / Show and Tell from Baby Boomer Quilting Bee

Recent finish: A black/red/white two-block quilt from the pattern called Freedom Flyer, published by Black Cat Creations. Deviation from the original making it square, with limited fabric and added an inner border of black.

Up Close and peek at the backing.

Finished Size: 70" Square

The pattern cover is made with several fabrics and laid out in a rainbow setting.

Link to Freedom Flyer pattern.

Finished Size: 69 X 87

added by Jamie Janow Elfert 5 years, 9 months ago. under black cat creations , black white quilt , freedom flyer , rainbow quilt , red , two-block quilt

Weekly update: Luncheon winnings and a concert, RSC teal, Frolic dispatched, and the next project from With Strings Attached

The Lake County Women's Coalition Women's History Month Celebration was Saturday. The theme was "Valiant Women of the Vote in Lake County." The Zion Woman's Club honoree was my friend and former coworker Rosemary who spearheaded the voter registration program at the library. The AAUW honoree was Sally who has coordinated AAUW's voter registration program and moderated many candidate forums.

There is a silent auction and raffle to raise funds for LCWC scholarships for women over 30 studying at the College of Lake County. They awarded three this year.

I contributed Crystal Chain (which I made ...

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Weekly update: a milestone birthday, but not much progress from With Strings Attached

Look who had a milestone birthday on Saturday! I put out a call on Facebook and via email for in-the-mail birthday cards with the hope that there would be 80. They've been coming for ten days, up to 130 as of this writing -- from as close as next door and across the street to Australia, Ireland (in Gaelic), and England. There was a friend from his kindergarten days and colleagues from his library days. The youngest was three and the oldest was, well, decades older. Rotarians, Methodists, AAUWs, P.E.O.s, librarians, and a host of other friends ...

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OMG for January from With Strings Attached

This will be the fifth year I'm participating in Patty's One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts. (Surely I'm not the only quilter who has to double-check that she's not typing Elm Creek.) I enjoy the make-your-own-challenge.

This is what's on my design wall.
It's a variation of this quilt . The blocks are 6 x 6 finished. I will make more of both the 16-patches and the Ohio Stars. Right now I like the scattered-ness of the stars.

But it's not my OMG for January. I can only tell but not show what ...

added by Nann 6 years, 5 months ago. under black white quilt , omg 2020

Midweek: it's a flimsy from With Strings Attached

The setting for the log cabin blocks (see the previous posts) continues to elude me. I have an idea but I need to let it simmer for a while longer.

Meanwhile I wanted to have some accomplishment so I assembled the black/white slab blocks. They look more jumbly in the photo than in person . . . but now it has a name: Jumble.

Five yards (by weight) in the "fabric used" column. It's 54" x 69".

And, no, the shoebox of black/white strips and squares is not empty.

Linking up with Midweek Makers

added by Nann 6 years, 7 months ago. under black white quilt , midweek makers , scrap quilts , slab blocks

Weekly update: kitchen, OMG, stars, and SQUIRREL! from With Strings Attached

The kitchen and dining room walls are now "Gleeful." (The contrast wall at the end of the entry hall is "Lime Rickey," a shade darker.) The base cabinets are in place and the upper cabinets are in the garage.

My November OMG was to make a bookshelf quilt for a former coworker who is retiring this month. This is the 40th bookshelf quilt I've made since 2004, all using Christine Thresh's pattern (Winnowing.com) (I have gotten my money's worth!)

I'm linking this post to the OMG November finish .

I was pleased to get a place ...

added by Nann 6 years, 7 months ago. under black white quilt , block swap , bookshelf quilt , design wall monday , kitchen remodeling , log cabin , monday making , oh scrap! , omg 2019

Weekly update: auditioning HST settings and aimless piecing from With Strings Attached

I made 550 black-and-something HSTs (3-1/2" unfinished). The plan was to set them in 25 rows of 22.

The design wall wasn't large enough to hold all of them.

The row-by-row setting is sparkly but I wondered what alternate designs might be.

Spectacular Scraps by Judy Hooworth and Margaret Rolfe is one of my favorite quilt design books. They use the triangle permutations described by French mathematician Dominique Douat -- 256 ways to arrange 8 triangles (or, for quilters: 4 half-square triangles).

I've come up with these so far. Right now I'm leaning toward the pinwheel (#3 ...

added by Nann 6 years, 7 months ago. under black white quilt , design wall monday , monday making , oh scrap! , scrap quilts , weekly update

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