What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.  

 I did say, "Rabbit, rabbit!" first thing today but I also remember listening to Julie Andrews sing  The Lusty Month of May on our Broadway cast LP* of Camelot.   

(*LP -- yet another archaic term from the 1960's.)

Violets, Virginia bluebells (mertensia), trillium at Lyons Woods on Wednesday morning.

Toler learned about Schultz when a cache of late 1890's photographs was ...

# # # # # #

A house is the template for the chapter highlights display at the P.E.O. state convention.  Any medium is welcome (many chapters do scrapbooking-type collages). I use fabric, of course, and here's how it turned out.  The lettering is printed on adhesive label plastic (8-1/2 x ...

My jacket is Air Light from L.L. Bean. One of the women on the New Zealand trip had three of the pullover models and on her recommendation I got this one.  (This color was on sale. :)) It is just the right weight and warmth. 

Mr. and Mrs. Crane were taking a walk, too. 

# # # # #

I'm all in for the Villa Rosa Designs Six Quilts in Six Weeks challenge!   

 The audience participated by choosing a 4x4 reproduction of an Impressionist or other late 19th/early 20th c. painting (created by Jim: "it's a prop, not a souvenir").   As Claude walked around the room he gave highlights of the chosen miniatures.

 What a great way to brush (ha!) up on art history.

# # # # # 

Linking up with  Finished or Not Friday

It's been a week of attending to a number of things.  On Monday my sister and I met halfway between our respective homes for a little retail therapy and lunch, and I was finally able to give her gift(s) for her mid-February birthday.  Tuesday I met with the trust attorney to get the ball rolling (belatedly) to retitle Stevens' car in my name (a different process when the vehicle is inherited).  Tuesday evening AAUW met in person with a really informative program about recycling.  (Among ...

Dogwood is reddening up.  Fungus looks like little flying saucers.

# # # # # 

The quilt guild meets by Zoom in January and February.  It was nice to be back in person this Wednesday evening.  One of the guild members, an art teacher (retired; with a ...

They filled a real VW beetle with orchids.  

Catch the 60's decor -- the RCA console TV, the wood panelling and orange shag carpet.

The CBG staff starts planning two years in advance.  All the sets are made in-house.  

The amaryllis will bloom while I'm away so I took it (and some produce) to Mike and Jen, the neighbors who will watch the house.  Not only do they have the house key but they also have the car keys because if the house is burning the cars need to get out of the garage. 

I was determined to finish The West Wing before the trip.  I watched four episodes Wednesday night (got through Matt Santos' election) which left me with five episodes for Thursday.   All that TV time meant sewing time. 

An hour after I took this screenshot the temperature dropped another 2 degrees. 

The storm has been in the forecast all week and it's probably affecting where you are.   We're on the edge of the snow with just 1"-2" predicted for tomorrow.   

The retired library directors are meeting for lunch today but LS and I, who were going to ride together, have decided to stay in our respective homes.   I have enough to keep me busy.

# # # # # #

It's been too cold to walk and I miss stretching my legs.  (I could walk at the rec center but that's early morning and I prefer to walk in the afternoon.)

# # # # #  In the warm, cozy basement studio: 

 I have chosen the starter for the Stay At Home Round Robin.  

At the ALA Midwinter Meeting in 2018 I got two vendor tote bags with this Jane Austen quotation. I ...

 I managed to stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve.   I watched a new movie and an old one on Netflix.  New: Wake Up Dead Man, the third (and best, so far) in the Knives Out series.  Old:  How to Steal a Million with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole. A fun caper from 1966.  

As I watched I quilted and bound the golden bowties wall hanging.  (I left for Florida with it basted. I was afraid I'd make a mess of the quilting. But it turned out okay! I hand-sewed the binding to ...

At Thursday's Rotary breakfast we played games (two versions of "guess the carol") and had a gift exchange.  Chris got the pair of pillowcases that I made, along with a box of  candy (shhh...regift of one of the 'festive foods' from earlier in the month).  I got something I knew I wouldn't use ...

No meetings, too cold to walk + an audiobook I had to finish (see below) = a flimsy.

6-1/4 yards by weight. 

# # # # # #

The supermoon as seen from the back yard Thursday at 5 p.m.  

Tuesday:   Zion Woman's Club luncheon at a local restaurant.  We exchanged "festive food" -- a useful alternative to white elephants which are too often a way to get rid of one "dustable" and in turn take home someone else's dustable.   I brought some of my Christmas tablecloths to set the table. 

                       

We finished the puzzle just as Linda called us to dinner.  

I'm giving out bags of  caramel/cheese popcorn.  Our Rotary Club sold it as a fundraiser and I bought three cases of 24 4-ounce bags.  Rather than re-selling it (which other club members have done) I'm giving it away.  Whatever is left will be part of the snacks for the Zion Woman's Club Bunco night in two weeks.  (That is, if I can refrain from any more snacking.)

The geraniums are having a late-season burst of energy. I moved them to the back patio to make room for a mum and pumpkin on the front stoop.

The tomatoes are over.  The crop was nice this year, especially for the grape and cherry varieties. 

Judy Martin presented a trunk show at Wednesday's guild meeting.  I'm sure you've known about her as long as I have!  She came to quilting from years of garment sewing. Her first quilt was made from clothing scraps when she was in college in the late 1960's.  She has published eight pattern books.  

 Nearly all of the 24 of the quilts she showed are really big.   

 The designs look very complex but when she showed how the blocks fit together they didn't seem so intimidating.

Though I've owned many of her books I admit ...

The flowers are about 1/4".   

Is the hole in the tree a portal?  LOL!

# # # # #

No walk on Thursday.  Rotary breakfast at 7:15, then the first meeting of the Clara Cummings Book Club at lunchtime.  The speaker, Susan Benjamin, was ...