DWM: end of vacation, stars, and tea towel decision

Tomorrow I go back to work after two weeks' vacation. I'll miss the afternoon naps the most! In addition to catching up on library business, my schedule this week includes the quilt guild meeting on Wednesday (with our annual "raffle mania" event). On Friday morning I host the Coalitionn for Healthy Communities board at the library, after which I head to Bloomington for the AAUW-IL winter board meeting.

I changed my plans for the Steelers quilt.  I couldn't get the wonky stars to a uniform size and the points got chopped off. That would work for one block, but it was glaring when it happened on all of them.  I turned to Random Ohio Stars, one of Bonnie's free Quiltvile patterns.  I'm having fun combining different black, gold, and white prints.  Fun beats frustration by miles! 

  I wrote a post about my hoard collection of towels: here .  Here is the towel I've chosen for the Tea Towel Challenge.  The tropical bouquet from Key West has never been used so it's crisp with sizing.   Next task: select fabrics and consider how to design the borders.

These are the runner-up towels. The two on the right are more accurately screen-printed hangings. The center has been enhanced with embroidery. The right is a chart of kitchen measures and substitutions. (I bought it because of the seven-daisy motif ( P.E.O. had seven founders and its flower is the daisy).  If the Key West bouquet turns out well I may try my hand at repurposing these. 

I'm linking up with Judy's Patchwork Times and with Sophie Junction