Beardtongue foxglove, wild flag iris, oxeye daisy, feverfew, Japanese rose.
I used up two ziploc bags of triangles. The hourglasses (top right and lower left) were made from 4-1/2" triangles cut diagonally and repieced.
Some fabric in the "used" column but more fabric in the "acquired" column.
The rain forecast today will be most welcome. I planted tomatoes, beans, and lettuce earlier this week.
It was great to have lunch with Pat yesterday. She lives 60 miles from me and we don't get to visit in person often enough. We rediscovered an Indian restaurant we found by accident a couple of years ago--we'd both forgotten about it until I turned onto that road, then we both remembered. It was a good choice.
Where has the week gone?
Zion Woman's Club board met Tuesday afternoon to allocate funds to local agencies. ($300 to six, with $200 remaining for as-yet-unknown requests. We are a small-budget operation!) AAUW met by Zoom Tuesday evening for an excellent program by the director of Reform for Illinois, an organization working for transparency and fairness in state/local election funding.
I spent an hour at the AT&T store on Wednesday resetting the Yahoo app so I can get email on my phone. It turned out that I had an old, not-used Yahoo email address that the app ...
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There are four raffles: 50/50 cash, a gift card tree ($195 value), a ...
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Dogwood is reddening up. Fungus looks like little flying saucers.
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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 ...
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Choosing layouts and coordinating fabrics was a great design exercise.
Each is approximately 13 x 20.
I spent Monday visiting my sister. After tending to some financial business we went to the Salvation Army. I did NOT buy this sewing machine--$360 was far over-priced! I got two books and my sister got a book and a small table.
Monday evening the Magpies met by Zoom. (Washington state, Missouri, Texas (2), Illinois (2), Virginia, British Columbia (2), and Western Australia (where it was 10 a.m.)) "We need to do this again soon," everyone agreed. And we will.
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In the studio: 14 placemats finished with #15 under the needle. Five to go for this month's ...
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5-7/8 yards used in all.
They all use units from the orphan blocks box.
(The fine points of terminology: a patch is a shape cut from fabric. A unit is composed of one or more patches sewn together. A block is composed of units sew together.)
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I left for Florida (see Monday's post) with 18 9-1/2" crumb blocks on the design wall. By the time I got home on Friday I had a good idea what I'd do with them. (Surely I am not the only quilter who mentally designs quilts as a way to fall asleep.)
By the time I got home on Friday I had a good idea what I'd do with the crumbs. (Surely I am not the only quilter who mentally designs quilts as a way to fall asleep.)
I've made several crumb quilts over the years ... read moreEven though yesterday was the full moon, I slept like a baby! Although, isn't that expression kind of silly since babies tend to wake up a lot! I slept well - let's just put it that way!
Yesterday was an interesting day. We had a visitor, and the Pony Express is alive and well. Actually, we had a visitor the day before as well. Both were making pick-ups and drop-offs for the Pony Express. And besides the rescue, which I'll get into in a moment, I just didn't seem to be working very fast. I'm not ...
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I made time for only two walks this week, in and around meetings, when it was still warm and sunny. The front came through Saturday night. We had a dusting of snow and the Sunday high was in the mid-30's.
Left: Mr. and Mrs. Crane out for a promenade at Middlefork Forest Preserve on Wednesday afternoon. I was that close to them.
I stopped at Middlefork on my way to Lake Forest Place where the AAUW book group meets. This month we discussed Horse by Geraldine Brooks. I listened to it earlier this year when Diann/Little Penguin recommended ...
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Autumn colors and a wooly bear caterpillar at Illinois Beach State Park yesterday. Bottom left: two mullein sprouting new green leaves. We haven't had a frost yet.
As so often happens, it takes an obituary or a funeral to reveal all of a person's accomplishments and how many lives that person touched. Saturday afternoon I ...
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Fringed gentian -- you can see the fringes at the edges of the petals. They like sunshine and moist (but not wet) soil. The lake prairie at Illinois Beach State Park is just right.
Some have a single stem and others have multiple stems.
Such a beautiful blue!
Upper left: this channel is the Middle Fork of the North Branch of the Chicago River. It flows into the Des Plaines which flows into the Illinois which flows into the Mississippi and then to the Gulf of Mexico.
Monarch on ironweed. Top: Scarlet lobelia and asters; compass plant. Center: Obedient plant; water smartweed or amphibious bistort (what a wonderful name!). Bottom: monarch on ...
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