Weekly update: wedding shower and goal progress

On Saturday friends and family had a wedding shower for my niece at the groom's parents' house (just up the road west of Racine).  Though the bride and groom are registered at Target, I shopped in my vintage stash.

The suitcase is from Lillian's Legacy   The Fiesta c/s with figure eight tray was an estate sale find.

I was late getting to the shower because I took the wedding wheels quilt to Barb J., the longarmer.  We spent a long time selecting quilting patterns.

















Preparing the backing and getting the quilt to Barb was #1 of my four-part April OMG. 

Here is #2.  This runner will be a door prize at the GFWC-Illinois convention.  [I am not going to the convention -- AAUW-Illinois and P.E.O.-Illinois are all I can handle!]  I adapted the design from a Debbie Mumm pattern.  It is approx. 17 x 52.

I made four Night and Noon blocks for the April Block Lotto . There are some slick tricks to the cutting that make this easier to piece than you'd realize.  Note that I promptly trimmed the cutaway corner HSTs.

It turned out that I did NOT give a book review for the church women's group last week. It's the first Thursday of May. (My notes said, "April 5," but they have  a new program chairman who most likely said, "Can you come when you usually do? April? May?" and I wrote April. But May it is.)  That gives me three weeks to truly prepare.  Meanwhile, this week I will give a book review for my own church women's group (much less pressure).  AAUW is Tuesday evening. On Wednesday DH and I are going on a Frank Lloyd Wright field trip. And Friday is the Really Big Quilt Show (the International Quilt Festival) at the Rosemont convention center.

Monday linkups:
Design Wall Monday
Oh Scrap!
Monday Making
Moving It Forward