omg 2023

Weekly update: holiday celebrations, small finishes, and OMG December + reading from With Strings Attached

The social whirl is underway!

The GFWC-IL District 10 luncheon was on Wednesday. We played Santa bingo. I won $41 in the split-the-pot raffle.

There was a Christmas tree trivia quiz. The average artificial tree is used for 6 years (and is in the landfill forever).....Christmas trees are grown in all 50 states....Calvin Coolidge began the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in 1923.

Friday evening we enjoyed dinner with Rotary friends prior to the Carthage College Christmas Festival

Familiar carols and other old and new songs, with splendid choral and instrumental music.

Saturday was the AAUW Waukegan Area Branch ...

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Midweek: Hourglass finish, OMG completed, and the stash report from With Strings Attached

Arabic Hourglass is finished. I did rip out and re-sew the misturned blocks. However, as I basted it I found a dark block next to a dark block. I left that one alone.

I pieced the left over blocks into the back.

I started and finished three other quilts this month. The baby quilt (on the left) was my One Monthly Goal. The others just happened!

BTW, the baby arrived November 16. His mother had some complications but both she and the baby are doing well. The postponed shower will instead be a welcome party sometime in the new year ...

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Midweek: stash report for October, and November projects from With Strings Attached

Rabbit, rabbit!

Here is the explanation of this first-day-of-the-month good luck charm. I first read about it in Trixie Belden and the Black Jacket Mystery, circa 1963 but only in recent years do I remember to say it.

It was a chilly Halloween with a 1" snowfall that frosted the pumpkins and the chrysanthemum. We had 20 trick-or-treaters. We gave out mini-packs of fruit snacks (those gummy things) and little boxes of raisins because I didn't want to be tempted by left over chocolate.

I had a productive quilting month, though I didn't work on my OMGs (placemats ...

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Weekly update: wrapping up September, part 2 from With Strings Attached

I had a productive month in my studio. On the left: the Beacon and Autumn Nine-Patch are finished. The back of the nine-patch is in the center. The black/white Geese and Goslings and the blue Happy Endings are flimsies.

All three bears (Papa, Mama, Baby) are quilted and bound.

I used three different quilting patterns: my default swirl, serpentine, and grid.

Despite all this creativity I added more to my stash than I used.

Fabric IN, September: 113-3/4 yards, $335.36. Average: $2.93/yard. (Quilt show in Madison + an estate sale.)

Fabric OUT, September: 55-3/4 yards ...

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Weekly update: all the hikes, a concert, Labor Day, and two new starts + OMG September from With Strings Attached

Hooray! I've finished the 12 listed routes for Hike Lake County 2023 plus the 13th wild card/hiker's choice. Saturday #12 Fort Sheridan. We were there in July (this post) but the HLC trail went in another direction. Sunday #13 we revisited Lyons Woods which is close to home on the border between Beach Park and Waukegan.

Clockwise: Obedient plant, jack-in-the-pulpit, ironweed, hyssop, nightshade, yellow jewel weed.

Here's the log where I've kept track of each hike. I'll get a metal shield that looks like the new HLC logo (shown in the photo). Note that ...

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Midweek: a finish for OMG August + wildflowers + reading from With Strings Attached

I finished hike #9 for the annual Hike Lake County challenge. Independence Grove is more like a city park than a forest preserve. It is really crowded on the weekends (I know from previous visits) but this particular Monday afternoon it wasn’t very busy. The hiking “trail” is a blacktop bike path.

Mountain mint, evening primrose, joe pye week. American white waterlily, elderberry "lace," goldenrod. Dogwood.

The blue/yellow/green quilt is quilted and bound. I used one fabric for the back.

"Something yellow" was my stated One Monthly Goal for August. I'm counting this quilt and Borderlands ...

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Midweek: show entry + OMG August from With Strings Attached

Monday's mail brought good news. 45 RPM has been accepted for the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show . I'm going to the show on September 8 with a bus group organized by an LQS.

This post tells more about the quilt design.

I don't have any must-quilt projects right now so I took the Janome, my primary machine, to the shop for an overdue cleaning. I regularly remove lint from the bobbin area and the feed dogs but I have a suspicion that there's gobs of lint down below I set up Sweetness, the Singer 301, and she ...

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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 ...

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Weekly update: OMG July and a finish from With Strings Attached

Broadleaf arrowhead at Van Patten Woods on Saturday. I was able to get a close up because the pond it grows in was dried up. (The ground was mucky and moist but ordinarily the water would be 5" deep.)

After 1" of welcome rain yesterday all the flowers will perk up. (More rain to the south -- 2.6" at O'Hare and nearly 9" in Berwyn/Cicero.)

The downpours delayed some of the NASCAR races in the Loop. (We aren't car racing fans so it didn't bother us.)

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Quilting goals for July:

1) Guild challenge (due in September ...

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Friday check in: goals in June and the stash report from With Strings Attached

It's been hazy because of the smoke from the Canadian wild fires, but we haven't had any adverse reactions to the air quality. We do enjoy our afternoon outings.

Here is a wildflower you don't expect to see in northern Illinois. Prickly pear cactus grows at Illinois Beach State Park. Each flower petal is tipped with a spine.

Wood lilies are also in bloom at IBSP. (Both photos taken yesterday.)

I didn't post to the One Monthly Goal link up at the beginning of June but I did have goals in mind and I achieved them ...

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Midweek: wrapping up May with OMG and the stash report from With Strings Attached

Mid-Monday morning we set up our chairs on Sheridan Road to watch the Winthrop Harbor Memorial Day parade. Hometown parades are best!

There's a spot at Illinois Beach where lupine blooms every year.

Cue Miss Rumphius! (I have gone back and harvested some of the seeds but they haven't germinated in my garden.)

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OMG for May: something orange -- in two quilt backs and one quilt top

and the wall hanging for the ALA silent auction

I shipped the wall hanging and five of my quilts to the ALA conference exhibits manager. That made a slight reduction in stack ...

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Friday check in: thrift shop deals + a finish from With Strings Attached

After an appointment yesterday morning I stopped at two thrift shops and indulged. The stripe was a roll of quilt-weight home dec, 54" wide. 18 yards for $10! A smaller home dec on the left, two twin flat sheets, and homespun (curtains). Total cost: $23.

Washing and ironing all of it took some time. Then I finished the wall hanging. Quilted, bound, labeled.

Linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? Finished or Not Friday Peacock Party

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Weekly update: stash report and OMG May from With Strings Attached

More meals out, all in good company.

Friday-- dinner with Ann and John (who live in Evanston) and Marty and Pete (who were visiting A and J from Falls Church). Ann and Stevens went to kindergarten together (in 1945). Pete and Stevens went to prep school (all-boys) together (7th grade-12th grade). Ann and Marty were classmates from first grade all the way through college (all- girls/women). It had been 40 years since Pete and Stevens had seen one another. (The jacket was one of the first things I made when I moved back to Illinois in the spring of ...

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Friday check in: Mme. Curie, a flimsy + OMG April from With Strings Attached

"Meet Madame Curie" was Lynn Rymarz portrayal at yesterday's Clara Cummings Book Club luncheon. The setting was 1920 when Marie Curie came to the U.S. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae, as AAUW was then called, raised $100,000 to buy one gram of radium for her research. Since many AAUW members come to Clara Cummings it was very fitting. Dr. Curie sought medical applications to treat cancer but radium found commercial uses, too.

The second character in Lynn's program was one of the Radium Girls who painted watch faces and clock dials at the Radium Dial factory ...

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Weekly update: stash report, it's a flimsy!, and OMG for April from With Strings Attached

On Saturday morning we two Rotarians enjoyed Kiwanis pancakes at the Moose Lodge. I quipped that we were practicing cultural diversity. (The pancakes were good and it was great to see so many folks we know. I bought raffle tickets but didn't win anything.)

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I surprised myself when I did the stash report calculations.

March IN 107-7/8, $123 (93 yards were gifts)

March OUT 112 yards (sold 35; gave away 28)

YTD IN: 170-7/8, $632, avg $3.70 per yard

YTD OUT: 213-1/2 net reduction 42-5/8

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For nearly a decade I swapped 3-1/2" nine-patches ...

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Midweek: OMG March roundup from With Strings Attached

I went to the marina/state park at sunset yesterday to see the conjunction of five planets . The sky was cloudless.

I saw Venus (here) and Mars (much fainter) but I didn't see the others, even with binoculars. Another couple (whom I did not know) drove up. We chatted as we tried to figure out what were planets and what were stars. We were the only people at that stretch of the lakefront, though a cop pulled up to remind us that the park closed at sunset. I showed him a website photo/illustration of what we were looking ...

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Midweek: a good start on OMGs and Big Coins finished from With Strings Attached

OMG part 1: one of the four wheelchair quilts is quilted and bound. [I made 13 wheelchair quilt flimsies. By the end of February I quilted nine of them. In March I want to quilt the other four.]

These blocks were left over from two previous projects. All homespun plaids.

OMG, part 2: something green, the March RSC color.

Placemats are another guild charity project. I used left over RSC units (2020 and 2019).

The Big Coins quilt is finished! 65 x 70, approx. The coins are 2"x5.5" unfinished. The sashes are 5.5" unfinished. You can see ...

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Weekly update: stash report, OMG, and more from With Strings Attached

The Lake County Women's Coalition celebrated Women's History Month on Saturday. "Women who tell our stories" is the 2023 WHM theme. Each LCWC member organization honored a Lake County woman who has done just that. The Zion Woman's Club chose Zion writer Sandy Dickson and AAUW-Waukegan Area Branch chose historian Diana Dretske.

Actor Jenny Riddle portrayed Barbara Walters based on Walters' autobiography Audition.

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MaryFran was the high bidder for "Hidden Stars," the quilt I donated to the silent auction.

And I won a big gift basket with soup mixes and other edible delights.

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OMG February from With Strings Attached

I had a wonderful time at QuiltCon in Atlanta but I don't have time to write that long post.

Instead: a very quick OMG report. Success!

(1) A wall hanging to enter in the GFWC-IL Tenth District Art Contest on March 1

(2) A daisy-themed something for the outgoing president of the P.E.O. Lake County Round Table

Update: it turns out that the art contest specifies that entries must have been made in 2022. So I will enter a wall hanging I made a year ago.

(3) A baby quilt commission. I'm not sure when the ...

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Midweek: January summary and February plans from With Strings Attached

Rabbit, rabbit -- it's February 1!

I had a great quilting month.

YTD fabric IN: 20 yards, free (a gift from a friend)

YTD fabric OUT: 50-3/4

Here's the new flimsy. 2-1/8 yards, 42 x 54.

The cheddar and gray/taupe solids were part of the charity quilt kits available at the guild meeting in December. The charity chairmen said they'd put the kits together with what they thought might make a nice wheelchair quilt but that we could use the fabrics as we chose. The kits I took turned out to be 20 yards and ...

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