It's apple season! The produce/flower market just up the road from us gets several dozen varieties of apples from Twin Maples Orchard in southwestern Michigan.
I get three or four of each kind and put a slip of paper with the variety in each bag -- but usually the slips, bags, and apples get separated.
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Play Your Song is finished! I used a six-piece panel and Bonnie Hunter's Random Ohio Stars design. 60 x 72, 6-1/4 yards used. It will be donated to the Lake County Symphony Orchestra for their fall gala.
I thought I had kept count of the small stars but there were two left over.
I've made many scrap slab blocks that turn out 9-1/2" because I use that size ruler to trim them. I've set them with wide strips (here and here). I saved a Pinterest photo with another setting idea. The slabs are 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" and the gray strips are 2" x 9-1/2. I cut down a half dozen square slab blocks and found I had enough slabs-in-process to make a dozen more. [In the photo: the two blocks at the top show the horizontal/vertical setting. The finished blocks are at the left, the cut strips in the center, the 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" slabs at the right.]
I won't have much sewing time this week. I leave tomorrow at noon for Iowa. Destination: Des Moines and the P.E.O. Sesquicentennial Convention . Home on Sunday afternoon!
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Happy Apple Season! enjoy
ReplyDeletegreat quilt and fun pieced back
I may have said it before, but that BH pattern was a great way to use those panels. Courtland (or is it Cortland?) apples are my favorite but I haven't found any around the Glade. Maybe we'll get lucky in VA next week.
ReplyDeleteSuch an appropriate design for the Orchestra. I believe it is not white, yellow and gray but gold, silver and ivory to echo the musical instruments. A fabulous finish!!! The stars on the back are a perfect surprise - like finding a second layer of chocolate truffles when the top layer is all gone.
ReplyDeleteI love your Random Ohio Stars, love the color palette and the layout. Great quilt!!!
ReplyDeletePlay your song is wonderful. Hopefully it earns a lot for the symphony. Enjoy Iowa and your convention.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a great finish! Great idea to put the extra blocks on the back - it adds a lot of interest! Hope you have a super trip!
ReplyDeletePlay Your Song is lovely! What a great gift to your local orchestra. They are lucky to have it.
ReplyDeleteAnd your slab blocks look like so much fun.
I remember discovering which apples cooked up better and which were better eaten raw. How enlightening.
ReplyDeletePlay Your Song makes a lovely and generous gift to the orchestra.
Enjoy your trip.