Observations of a librarian and quiltmaker who values the connections between and among people and organizations.
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Midweek: it's a flimsy
The setting for the log cabin blocks (see the previous posts) continues to elude me. I have an idea but I need to let it simmer for a while longer.
Meanwhile I wanted to have some accomplishment so I assembled the black/white slab blocks. They look more jumbly in the photo than in person . . . but now it has a name: Jumble.
Five yards (by weight) in the "fabric used" column. It's 54" x 69".
And, no, the shoebox of black/white strips and squares is not empty.
Linking up with Midweek Makers
Labels:
black white quilt,
Midweek Makers,
scrap quilts,
slab blocks
Monday, November 25, 2019
Weekly update: the kitchen (still) and log cabins
We need to buy a dishwasher to replace the 10-year-old model which wasn't cleaning so well. The refrigerator is newer than that but because of the new location I can consider a bottom-freezer model. (Any opinions?)
My husband caught a bug last week but seems to be over it. I came down with a cold Saturday evening -- I think the worst of it was Sunday night. We should be healthier by Thanksgiving Day. We've been invited to have dinner with friends. I bought a turkey anyway (those pre-holiday prices are irresistible). Since the stove is out of commission I will cook it in the electric roaster.
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in the photo is a wonderfully lively Free Spirit print and I have enough of it for the project. But I will audition something lower-volume -- red, maybe? Or lime green?
I'd like to get both the slab blocks and the log cabins to the flimsy stage by Friday. That's when Bonnie will publish the first clue for the 2019 mystery. I love the colorway -- aqua, blue, raspberry, green.
Have a great holiday!
Linking up with
Oh Scrap!
Design Wall Monday
Monday Making
Monday, November 18, 2019
Weekly update: kitchen, OMG, stars, and SQUIRREL!
I'm linking this post to the OMG November finish .
Earlier this month I made some black and white slab blocks. When I got to 24 I put them on the design wall. I don't want to replicate last year's Modern Cabin. I arranged them horizontally by accent color and realized that may be the setting -- six rows, six blocks, each row a different accent color. Since I took this photo I've made another green, another yellow, and four turquoise blocks. Orange and purple to come.
Linking up with
Oh Scrap!
Monday Making
Design Wall Monday
Monday, November 11, 2019
Weekly update: the kitchen, BOM reveal, and a new flimsy
Below, right, shows the Instant Pot and crockpot on my 44-year-old card table. The microwave is set up in the garage.
The contractor says that the new cabinets will be installed this week.
I was lead hostess for the Zion Woman's Club meeting on Tuesday. I mixed the cake in the bathroom and my next door neighbor let me use her oven to bake it.
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The 14th Corporate Community Spelling Bee was Thursday. I was on the library team. We came in 2nd (I misspelled "eremetic," a word I had never heard before). I donated Scrappy Cedar Trees to the raffle. [It is gray and brown, not purple.] My friend and colleague Deb was the delighted winner.

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On to quilting!
"Honey, Let's Go to Home Depot!" was Joan Cain's humorous presentation about hardware store items for the quilter -- from clips and clamps to magnetic parts bowls (great for pins). She encourages us to save money on the tools and spend money on good fabric at the local quilt shop.
The wonky house BOM was revealed. It was fun to see everyone's fabric choices and colorways. (There was a cat in every window in one quilt; another was embellished with embroidery.)
Each of us who had a BOM quilt or a flimsy was eligible to win prizes. My number was drawn second -- a $50 Home Depot gift certificate, a pattern, a book, and a fabric panel.
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The Monday link ups:
Monday Making
Oh Scrap!
Design Wall Monday
P.S. We woke up to this this morning.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Weekly update: auditioning HST settings and aimless piecing
The design wall wasn't large enough to hold all of them.
The row-by-row setting is sparkly but I wondered what alternate designs might be.
Spectacular Scraps by Judy Hooworth and Margaret Rolfe is one of my favorite quilt design books. They use the triangle permutations described by French mathematician Dominique Douat -- 256 ways to arrange 8 triangles (or, for quilters: 4 half-square triangles).
I pulled out the box of black/white/gray scraps. So far I've made some slab blocks, some Ohio Stars, and some 16-patches. It's nice to have some aimless piecing for a change.
Monday linkups:
Oh Scrap!
Design Wall Monday
Monday Making
Friday, November 1, 2019
The stash report and November goals
Roses on Sunday.
Roses on Thursday, the snowiest Halloween in Chicagoland history.
(We did not have trick or treaters.)
Surely the rabbit, rabbits are hunkered down today. The temperature will go above 40 so all the snow will become a sloppy mess.
(Here is the explanation of the "rabbit, rabbit" good luck legend.)
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On the first day of our October vacation we stopped in a small town in northwest Indiana. There was a quilt shop so naturally I went in. They had a clearance section ($3/yd) so I indulged a little -- but just a little, since it was the first day. It turned out that those bargains were the major souvenir purchase. With that, here's the October stash report:
Fabric IN, October: 11-5/8 yards, $28.00 ($2.39/yard)
Fabric OUT, October: 47-1/4 yards
Fabric IN, January-October: 500-5/8 yards, $1413, average $2.82/yard
Fabric OUT, January-October: 451-5/8 yards
Net increase: 49 yards
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So my OMG is more modest: a small bookshelf quilt for a former library coworker who is retiring this month.
I'm linking up to OMG at Elm Street Quilts where you can see what other quiltmakers are planning.
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