sahrr 2025

Midweek: photos finished, quilted and bound, skirting the issue + reading from With Strings Attached

It was foggy all day yesterday. I went out after supper and snapped this photo of the sun breaking through the clouds.

My friend Renee and I spent the afternoon working on the picture collages for Saturday's funeral. We'll finish the job today.

The background for each is a piece of homespun plaid, an homage to the plaid shirts Stevens wore.

You've seen all the stages of this year's Stay at Home Round Robin. Barb-the-quilter did a beautiful job quilting it. I put on the binding Monday evening.

UPDATE: I won one of the SAHRR sponsor ...

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Weekly update: changes ahead + quilting progress from With Strings Attached

The crocuses under the dryer vent are the first to bloom

On Wednesday Stevens' condition took a sharp decline. He wasn't able to get out of his armchair to use the walker to go back to his bathroom and bedroom. Our friend Curt came (at 9:45 p.m.) to help me move him. Thursday began all right--I went to Rotary, came home to get him up, and promptly had to call our part-time caregiver for help. She came right over. We began a new routine. V now comes every morning and every evening. He's sitting in the ...

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Friday check in: best in show but some editing required from With Strings Attached

The annual GFWC-IL Tenth District Art Show was Wednesday. They have used the same categories for years ranging from painting (subcategories by medium) to floral arranging to holiday decor, sculpture, paper crafts, photography, knitting/crochet -- and "wall hanging" and "embroidery, quilting, tatting." Categories are subject to interpretation. This year sculpture included a fused-glass panel (beautiful) and a fabric/quilted covered flower pot (artificial flowers. Well, I didn't make the rules. I just followed them -- and I won! Full confession: I entered the only wall hanging and there two quilts and a quilted tote bag (no tatting). But I got ...

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Friday check in: SAHRR, a bag created, and a bag rescued from With Strings Attached

I've had a productive day and a half!

This is month #7 for the guild BOM. The February house block is in the center with its predecessors around it.

SAHRR with round #5, quarter log cabins. They fit! I am very pleased with the way this is turning out.

I posted this photo on Monday. I intended to make wheelchair quilt (36 x 45). I finished the quilting--just an easy swirl, no sweat. When I trimmed the edges I trimmed one long side TOO much and it looked.....not right. I could have bound it "not right" and given ...

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Midweek: round 5 underway + dust off a book decision from With Strings Attached

SAHRR Round 5 so far. I've made all the quarter-log cabin units (3" finished). I hope to have all four borders sewn on by Friday.

I'm participating in Bea's (BeaQuilter) Dust Off a Book blog hop next month. I'm perusing quilt books, dusty or not, to choose a project to make.

I do not lack choices. (There are more quilt books than these.)

Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss -- thanks for the shout out today, Jennifer.

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Midweek: SAHRR surprise from With Strings Attached

Looking out the front door at 10 a.m. The storm has been predicted for three days. 3"? 6"? 8"? I'm glad we don't have to go anywhere today.

Old Town awaits the outer border. I am hoping that the little checkerboards didn't stretch out on the edges . . .

BUT!

I did not have any units on hand for this week's Stay at Home Round Robin prompt for "slashed/sliced" blocks. I had to resort to sewing but that was no hardship. They were easy to make and, miraculously, they fit perfectly.

Linking up at Wednesday Wait ...

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Weekly update: SAHRR, Old Town, and reading from With Strings Attached

How nice to get this FB message first thing on Saturday!

This is the quilt that she won. (Working title: "Go Scrappy or Go Home.")

The weather cooperated Saturday morning for the spaghetti dinner delivery. All our "customers" (neighbors mostly) were appreciative. We had two of the dinners ourselves -- tasty!

Saturday afternoon I went to the last hours of an estate sale. The advertised German nutcrackers were long gone by the time I got there but I got a nice office chair on wheels for $7.00. The seat-lifter on the Steelcase chair I've had at my sewing machine ...

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Friday check in: January report from With Strings Attached

"Smile for your fan club!"

Sunshine and temperatures in the upper 30's and lower 40's were conducive to walking this week. It was good to stretch my legs!

This is pack ice, covered in sand.

I saw four of the ornaments I hung along one of the paths in mid-December. This one had a few remnants of its red paint.

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I had a satisfying and productive month in the studio.

The Stay at Home Round Robin (SAHRR) prompt this week was half-square triangles. I have a box of batik HSTs on hand so this was an easy step ...

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Friday check in: catching up with a finish, BOM, SAHRR and more from With Strings Attached

On the home front: Thirty birthday cards arrived this week. THANK YOU!

The dishwasher repairman came late Monday. He pried off the lower panel, plugged a gizmo into a gauge or something, and got a readout that said the dishwasher had run 1,586 cycles since installation. That was interesting. He then replaced a water intake valve. Here's the important part. He said he guessed that I used the economy cycle (51 min.). He was right. It turns out that's wrong and I should use the normal cycle. That pushes more water through the valve and keeps it ...

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Weekly update: RSC pink + SAHRR from With Strings Attached

The weather hasn't been conducive to walks . . . hope I can get out this week. Meanwhile, in the studio:

My 52 Placemats project is underway with these two in pink.

I came across a design for my 2025 RSC project. Eight 6-1/2" 9Ps each month.

I started a batch of Ohio Stars just because.

(I am avoiding dealing with Old Town.)

I'm determined to stick with the Stay at Home Round Robin this year. Here's my starter block. It was the starter block for the guild 2018 round robin that I switched up (see how it began ...

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