design wall monday

Weekly update: out and about, finishes and a flimsy, and more reading from With Strings Attached

On Tuesday Zion Woman's Club members planted pinwheels to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month. (CAP is a General Federation of Women's Clubs initiative.) I've driven past the corner a couple of times and the pinwheels sparkle as they spin. We took our masks off for the photo and then put 'em on again, though all of us are vaccinated.

Our beach visit on Friday was to the main unit of Illinois Beach State Park. That's one building in three photos -- the long-abandoned bathhouse. This story tells about the innovative architecture.

And this story tells about the ...

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Weekly update: wildflowers, new projects, and reading from With Strings Attached

Spring wildflowers on my walks this week:

(clockwise): skunk cabbage leafed out (the flower is the purply-brown "horn"), violets, swamp buttercup, white trout lily (aka dogtooth violet -- "trout" because the leaves are mottled brown/green like a trout); bloodroot.

Saturday morning: six of us from Illinois Beach Sunrise Rotary joined other District 6440 Rotarians at a warehouse in Northbrook. We sorted the shoes our clubs purchased through Operation Warm -- new sneakers for kids in our communities. IBSR's share was 92 pairs that will be distributed through two local agencies.

Operation Warm also provides new winter coats for kids. Our ...

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This and That this 4/11/21 from The Quilting Reader's Garden

Working on my April Color Block QAL quilt:Needs one more border. Then I can try Debbie's nifty FMQ motif.Working on a commission quilt. Here is a couple of the 26 blocks I have to make:They need a good pressing. All from stash.And only have 3 corners of this quilt to quilt to finish my SAHRR, then get it bound - woohoo. What are you up to? I'll be linking to Design Wall Monday. See you there.

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This and That this 4/11/21 from Quilting Reader's Garden

Working on my April Color Block QAL quilt:Needs one more border. Then I can try Debbie's nifty FMQ motif.Working on a commission quilt. Here is a couple of the 26 blocks I have to make:They need a good pressing. All from stash.And only have 3 corners of this quilt to quilt to finish my SAHRR, then get it bound - woohoo. What are you up to? I'll be linking to Design Wall Monday. See you there.

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Weekly update: Easter, stash report, a finish, RSC, OMG, and reading from With Strings Attached

Happy Easter!

It's been a busy week!

We are fully Pfizerized. Our second vaccinations were at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday. We were fortunate that our appointments were convenient -- just three miles down Sheridan Road in Zion at CTCA.

Beautiful spring weather was a great opportunity for visiting two forest preserves -- Rollins Savanna on Friday and Lyons Woods on Saturday.

The arch in this fallen oak (Rollins Savanna) looked like a portal. I didn't want to take any chances of what might happen if I went through it.

We saw a pair of cranes at Illinois Beach State ...

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Weekly update: something new from With Strings Attached

I've had Patchwork with Pizzazz for more than a decade. (Author Lisa Bergene is Norwegian. The original title is Kreative Lappe Ideer Vesker og Bager.) I pulled the book off the shelf a couple of days ago and one of the designs began to jump up and down and holler, "Try me!" I couldn't resist.

The blocks use split rectangle units. I have probably made them sometime along the way but I know I haven't used them as a significant component of an entire quilt. I remember being put off by the fussy tedium of the bias ...

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Weekly update: welcome spring! potholders and reading from With Strings Attached

A nor'easter battered the lakeshore late last week. It would be cool but foolhardy to be at the beach during such a storm. Instead I visited two sections (Camp Logan and Hosah Park) on Saturday and Sunday when it was sunny and calm.

Salix discolor -- aka pussy willow or glaucous willow -- is in bloom.

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I made two green potholders for Joy's Table Scraps Challenge. That's a subset of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I pieced the backing for the batik stars flimsy I made earlier this month. I got it sandwiched and basted and I've begun the ...

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Weekly update: pie for Pi Day, square dancing, elephants, and reading from With Strings Attached

March 14 (3.14) is the day for Pi, Pie, and Puns. I made cherry pie for the occasion.

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In the studio: I have finished 20 Nine Patch Square Dance blocks. I found the perfect fabric for the sashing in my stash -- a Hoffman floral. The colors are right (not too yellow, not too green, a little pink, a little orange). The flowers are realistic, not stylized, which go with the realistic flowers in the centers of the blocks. I need 1 yard. I have 15 inches. Okay, what can I use instead? I searched high and low -- in the ...

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On My Design Wall Monday Today from Life in the Scrapatch

On my Design Wall today.

This is my Stay-At-Home-Round-Robin,

which I last worked on Here in February

when I was actually caught up with the sew-along.

Then I worked finishing on a blog hop project and was distracted by other projects

and the SAHRR ended without me two weeks ago.

It is all good, though, as I will finish this in my own time.

In truth, the checkerboard challenge week proved puzzling to my quilty muse

and I sewed more than a few units that I set aside

before I decided to combine the checkerboard (four patch units)

with the ...

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Weekly update: hints of spring, multiple projects, and reading from With Strings Attached

March began with a flurry of activities. On Wednesday we got our first Covid vaccine shots at CTCA, the hospital in Zion. It was quick and we had no side effects. The second shot is scheduled for March 31.

On Saturday evening we went to the first indoor concert in exactly a year. (The last time was March 7, 2020.) Only 50 people were in attendance with ample social distancing. The Lake County Symphony Orchestra featured a percussionist (marimba and vibraphone) and a brass quintet.

Spring is in the air with lots of sunshine and mild temperatures. . It was great ...

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Weekly update: OMG February, two finishes, a whole lot of potential, and reading from With Strings Attached

My One Monthly Goal for February was to put labels on finished quilts. One evening I went to work and got them done.

I print multiple labels on printer-fabric sheets. Some include my name and others are just Hilyard Studio. I write the name, date, and occasion when those are relevant. When a quilt doesn't have a destination I don't include that information. (If I donate a quilt that I made in 2017 to an event in 2021 I don't want it to appear that I dusted off an old project, even if that's pretty much ...

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Weekly update: red envelopes, yellow blocks, pinwheels!, and reading from With Strings Attached

My lucky envelope had $2

Kathy, Regina, and me

The Zion Woman's Club had a Lunar New Year dinner fundraiser on Friday. We sold tickets in advance for pickup at a local Thai/American restaurant. We had a Wall of Fortune with red envelopes numbered from 1 to 85 -- pay a dollar amount equivalent to the number to win cash prizes -- at least a $2 bill but there were some $10s and $20s and one with $100. Regina and I thought we'd be out in the parking lot selling red envelopes but, hooray!, restaurants have reopened (25% capacity ...

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Weekly Update: scrappy, trippy pinwheels from With Strings Attached

(c) Jen Kingwell

In 2019 I made 360 pinwheels for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. They've been in a box waiting for the right opportunity to become a quilt.

That opportunity came when I read Jen Kingwell's book Quilt Lovely, I bought a copy after attending the virtual program she gave for NSQG last month, The strong vertical columns on neutral really appealed to me. Note that hers has three different kinds of pinwheels.

Each column of 6" pinwheels turned out to be about 80 x 18 inches. I had enough neutral (subtle plaid) homespun for the setting triangles ...

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Weekly update: an unexpected gift, stash report, OMG finished and planned -- and reading from With Strings Attached

The 2021 ALA Midwinter Meeting was held virtually from January 22-26. FLOTUS Dr. Jill Biden was the closing speaker on the 25th. She was so vibrant! The remarkable young poet Amanda Gorman appeared in a clip just prior to Dr. Biden's talk.

Just a year ago I'd heard of Zoom but I'd only attended one meeting. It does it much easier to convene groups of people who live both nearby and far away. A perfect example: on Saturday morning AAUW-Michigan convened a regional meeting with participants from 18 states. There was lots of good information and idea-sharing ...

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Weekly Update: making history (with mittens), pink and more pink, Grassy Creek!, and reading from With Strings Attached

It was beautiful at the beach when I snapped the photo but at 19 degrees I didn't linger! The clouds have returned and there's snow in the forecast.

Years ago I read a time management book that likened the results of procrastination to an obstacle that gets bigger around as the procrastination continues - so big that it takes more effort to go around it than it would be to just go over it. That's how I've been with a non-quilting project this week that involved report-writing and statistics-compiling. I have to check to see that all ...

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Weekly Update: a flimsy and three-quarters, more scraps, and two books from With Strings Attached

We revisited Pine Dunes Forest Preserve on Sunday afternoon. A hiking stick with a carbide tip was a welcome accessory on the packed-snow (sort of melting) trail.

The framed four-patch batik project is now a flimsy. In retrospect the borders (made from 2.5" squares) are a little heavy. I'm not sure whether I'll change them (smaller squares? piano keys?)...no rush.

Grassy Creek is three-quarters of a flimsy. All the blocks and the sashing are assembled. To come: a different sashing around the perimeter, an inner border, and an outer border.

I fussed around with color placement--specifically ...

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Weekly update: some pink, OMG, and a squirrel from With Strings Attached

Lynn and I have known one another since kindergarten. We reconnected last year on our high school class's 50th reunion FB group. She joined me on Tuesday for a hike at Illinois Beach State Park. It was a pleasant 3-mile catching-up.

Wednesday my husband and I went out to discover a new-to-us segment of the lakefront bike trail. It was so calm -- in great contrast to the upheaval in Washington, D.C. which we watched on the news, horrified.

(You can tell it's a different day by the color of my turtleneck. :) )

The sun was out on Saturday ...

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Weekly update: project updates, OMG, and more from With Strings Attached

Our first forest preserve outings of the year -- Spring Bluff on Saturday and Van Patten Woods on Sunday.

Enough people had walked along the trails to pack down the snow so I didn't flounder.

Left collage: red-wing blackbird nest, a gravity defying limb, horsetails.

Right collage: gull tracks in the sand.

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I've collected/accumulated household textiles for many years. In 2019 I sold nearly all of the aprons in a yard sale. In 2020 I cut up vintage tablecloths to make tote bags (see them here). This year I'm assessing the dish towels. I will keep those ...

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Weekly update: hiking, feasting, quilting, reading from With Strings Attached

Thursday evening: the first Christmas Eve service I've attended with my sewing machine. That was so we could watch the Lessons and Carols on our church's YouTube channel. We fervently hope that this was a one-and-only and that next year we can worship in person. We dimmed the lights and lit candles for Silent Night.

Christmas dinner: roast beef, acorn squash, braised parsnips. Pear/spinach salad. Cranberry-pumpkin upside down cake. The vintage tablecloth just covered the table. (The table is mid-19th century and not a standard size.) And when was the last time you used a pickle fork ...

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Weekly update: the solstice, some sewing, some reading from With Strings Attached

The first day of winter! The sun was behind the clouds at 7:13 a.m. The sandy bluff where I usually take sunrise pictures, such as the one six months ago for the summer solstice, is closed to vehicles for the season. Thus this photo overlooks the empty boat slips at North Point Marina.

I took the photo on the right on my Sunday afternoon walk. The ravine is at the end of our street. The creek flows to the park adjacent to the marina.

In the studio:

Grassy Creek, clue 4.

I've made 17 out of the ...

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