On Saturday morning the Zion Woman's Club (with a few husbands to help) participated in a beach cleanup at Illinois Beach State Park. (I found a used condom and a Welcome Baby Girl balloon. There's a tale!) I also got some beach glass for my collection. |
| At home |
A tile floor from a long-gone building has been breaking up for years. I get a few pieces of tile each time I go to the beach and put them under the spigot at the back of our house. Right now the old floor is exposed.Saturday ended with more trash. The band Vocal Trash in performance (part of the LCCCA season). They were wonderful -- dancing, singing, drumming.
I found a box of batik HSTs on a bottom shelf. The triangles were cutaway corners. Most had been sewn but a lot hadn't. A few had been trimmed but most had not. They're now all sewn and all trimmed to 1.5" They haven't told me how they want to be assembled.
And (finally) here is my report for the One Monthly Goal finish link up . I stated that I would set the blocks that I made for the guild's Missouri Star sampler BOM, that I would catch up with the new guild BOM (wonky houses), and finish the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. The first two are done. I did not make a tenth Chinese Puzzle block out of this month's RSC color, sage green, but as I type this post I wonder: how about using sage in the setting? Gotta ponder that for a while . . .Monday link ups, in addition to OMG :
Design Wall Monday
Moving It Forward
Monday Making
Oh Scrap!
Ha ha - I think I would rather have the beach glass ;-) Love the wonky houses!
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting week you've had. I had to jump to the page about heartstrings blocks for Hurricane Michael. Now I want to make some of those even though I haven't finished the blocks I was making for another charity. Sorry you didn't get all of your OMGs done. But you came close. On to November.
ReplyDeleteBeach cleanups are always interesting, your story is funny. ;) What a fun band!
ReplyDeleteString blocks are great, love your OMG and sage for sashing would work great!
Busy, busy, busy! Beach clean up day was made fun! Your creations are lovely. I’ve always wanted to make wonky houses. Years back there was a wonky house swap and the quilts were all such fun when completed.
ReplyDeleteLove your quilt. Thanks for linking up to Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and congrats on your finish!
ReplyDeleteThose wonky houses are so cute! I must try making some! I like the sting blocks, heaven knows I have enough scraps to make some . You deserve a medal for adding beach cleanup to your busy week! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteBusy week! The beach cleanup is a good public service that you do. Thank you. And the string blocks for the hurricane victims. I love your little wonky houses. Thanks for linking with Design Wall Monday, it is fun to see what you are doing.
ReplyDeleteJudy
Thanks for only showing the beach glass from the beach cleanup! Sounds like the beach definitely needed a good cleaning!
ReplyDeleteI hate trimming those bonus triangles so just use them wonky. Wonder what they want to be!
This year I tried to tame my crumb scraps so next year I'll try to tame the strings. I have several different string quilts in mind just to mix it up a bit from the usual Heartstring quilts.
And two out of three goals is pretty darned good!