Lynn and I have known one another since kindergarten. We reconnected last year on our high school class's 50th reunion FB group. She joined me on Tuesday for a hike at Illinois Beach State Park. It was a pleasant 3-mile catching-up.
Wednesday my husband and I went out to discover a new-to-us segment of the lakefront bike trail. It was so calm -- in great contrast to the upheaval in Washington, D.C. which we watched on the news, horrified.
(You can tell it's a different day by the color of my turtleneck. :) )
The sun was out on Saturday when we revisited
Middlefork Savanna in Lake Forest. That's teasel on the left. It is so photogenic but it is actually an aggressive invasive species. (It was used to raise the nap of woolen cloth. Read more
here.)
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In the studio: a corner of the MQG mini quilt. I will mail it to my swap partner tomorrow. Midweek I'll show the entire quilt and share the story of the design.
I'm fiddling with ways to arrange the HSTs I made for last year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This month's RSC is pink.
But, oh, those batiks! They were so happy to be let out of their wire baskets. (Remember, for two months I was devoted to the Civil War repro project.) I had a few four-patches on hand. I had a few framed four-patch blocks on hand. And now I have many more. They are 5.5" unfinished and as you can see I'm considering setting them as nine-patches.
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Nev March's debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay, is a mystery/romance set in 1890's Bombay -- the height of the British occupation. Capt. Jim Agnihotri, an Anglo-Indian army veteran, is hired to find out who murdered two Parsee (Zoroastrian) women. It is not a clear-cut case. Jim's life is in jeopardy as he untangles a web of blackmail and deceit. It's entertaining and just complex enough to keep the reader going.
The All-Together Quilt is a charming addition to my collection of quilt-related picture books. It is based on Piece-by-Piece, an intergenerational/intercultural quilt project in Norwalk, Connecticut. Rockwell describes the process of making a quilt (how to cut the pieces and how to assemble blocks) in a straightforward, non-cutesy way. The illustrations are of real people. It's a gem!
Here is the author's website.
Here is the Quilt Alliance's story of the Piece-by-Piece project.
Linking up with Scrap Happy Saturday, Oh Scrap! Monday Making, Design Wall Monday
P.S. In-person church services resumed today!