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Friday check in: June statistics and July goals from With Strings Attached

Yes, it's hot! I'm grateful for central air conditioning and my basement studio these days. I've taken early morning walks except for Wednesday when I mowed the lawn (at 8 a.m.).

Sunrise photo taken at Spring Bluff Forest Preserve, Thursday.

NEWS FLASH! Easton John DePrez was born at 1:40 this morning. Mother and baby doing well. I'm a great-aunt!

What I made in June

# # # # # My June goals: make 10 placemats and finish two quilts. I accomplished that and more.

STASH REPORT: I got a lot of bargains, including a stack of batiks at the ...

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Weekly update: convention, stash report, OMG from With Strings Attached

The 123rd convention of the Illinois State Chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood was wonderful.

"Live Like Lulu--Be a P.E.O. Builder" was the theme for Fran's presidential term. Fran is a historian with a specialty in women's organizations and Lulu Corkhill Williams was an influential early P.E.O.

Fran, Lulu, and me

Lulu chartered Illinois chapters and the state chapter. The eponymous Lulu Corkhill Williams Friendship Fund provides emergency financial assistance to Illinois women and men. My involvement at the state level began with a term on the Lulu Fund.

I introduced Fran to ...

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Friday check in: wrapping up April and goals for May from With Strings Attached

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.)

April was productive in terms of quilting. My April OMG was to make the Trip Around the World quilt.

I made six quilts from Villa Rosa Designs patterns for the VRD Six Quilts in Six Weeks challenge.

I finished the guild mystery ...

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Midweek: a flimsy, stash report, and first quarter roundup from With Strings Attached

It's a flimsy!

I auditioned a couple of red/green prints for the border but nothing looked right (or I didn't have enough) so I used the background.

64" x 72". 6 yards in all.

Here's a closeup.

Several people have commented on how small the 9ps are. I cut 1-1/2" strips and the blocks are 3-1/2 (3" finished). I don't think that is that small. Maybe it's all the practice I had with the mini-9p swap I participated in for so many years.

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Stash report, March. Fabric in: ZERO Fabric out: 91-1 ...

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