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What a variety of weather we've had! Two warm days (first lawn-mowing of the season) followed by near-record chill with a touch of frost Saturday morning. The parking lot and trails at the Camp Logan unit of Illinois Beach State Park were still flooded from the April 29 rain (3.37") but Saturday afternoon we tried Hosah Park (the one patch of lakefront that belongs to Zion Park District). But where's the beach? Somewhere near Indiana by now. Last summer there was sand at the end of the boardwalk and the walkway to the overlook was clear. The severe erosion is due to the highest lake levels in 17 years and to the breakwaters constructed to the north (to mitigate erosion from their beaches).
The beach ridges are very obvious when the swales are full of water.
Now -- Sunday afternoon -- it's drizzly and gray. No gardening today! We'll get hanging baskets and annuals at the garden center next week.
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In the studio:
This week's masks: I gave 30 to a local nursing home in response to a FB post and 40 to the local agency that helps the elderly and confined-to-home get food and supplies. I have more to give away. I've made 349 and there's enough elastic for 14 or 15. I'll have to decide if "end of elastic" is a stopping place or if I'll need a round number (say, 375 or 400) to say ENOUGH.Shelter in Place: Fourteen more blocks. So far I've made 70. At one-a-day, I'm up to May 23.
Rainbow Rails is a flimsy! In Thursday's post I asked for opinions about which fabric to choose for sashing. The votes were pretty evenly distributed. It turned out that I didn't have enough of any one of them -- three to five inches too little -- but I found a 2-yard piece of another light gray on white that would work.
I've made 200 of the 346 five-patches I need for the next scrappy quilt.
Singing in the choir at this morning's virtual church service.
Our last Mother's Day with our mother, 2001.
(Was I practicing for this year with that hairdo?!)
Weekly link ups:
Scrap Happy Saturday
Oh Scrap!
Monday Making
Design Wall Monday
Congrats on getting Rainbow Rails sewn into a top, Nann!! I love the simplicity of the design and the impact of the whole.
ReplyDeleteRainbow rails is so fun, what a great scrap busting quilt.
ReplyDeleterainbow rails is a winner! every morning i go into the bathroom and open my eyes slowly wondering how the "do" will look that day...lol...my daughter has gone "pippi longstocking" and isn't happy one whit...lol
ReplyDeleteRainbow rails is so lovely--congrats on sewing up all those scraps, too
ReplyDelete~ ~ ~ waving from afar julierose
I love your rainbow rails too. What a great way to use up tiny scraps. Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
ReplyDeleteI love your shelter in place and rails quilt. I love your choices of colors. Well done! I can't believe the patience you have for using those tiny scraps!! Wowsa!
ReplyDeleteYou are a mask making marvel!! Wow!
ReplyDeleteLove the rainbow rails quilt!
Love that scrappy rails !
ReplyDeleteOh those rails blocks. They look fabulous. I need to remember those for next year's RSC. Have you been keeping up with the Covid 19 and singing information? It is pretty depressing. I doubt we'll be singing with any of our groups for quite a while. I hear you on what the hair looks like every day. Take care and hope to see what you produce with those 5 squares.
ReplyDeleteSo you asked our opinion on sashing fabric choice and you didn't have enough of any of those? Too funny. Glad you found something. Turned out great.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...wondering what you are cooking up with those five patches. I've seen a scrappy quilt called Peas in a Pod or something like that that consists of framed five patches that I have considered making for a donation quilt.
Hair cut?? I haven't had one in about 20 years or so. Don't want to sit still that long!
Laughed at your hair comment. I’m in the same boat! The rails look terrific and the solution of sashing looks good! The shelter houses are really cute.
ReplyDeleteI am singing at home, too. It's different, isn't it? I also remember previous years with all my family around - when the kids were young and when I was a kid. We have been blessed.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of erosion. Hope it comes back in a few years but probably won't if they built a headland. Still it's good to get out for walks.
Your quilts are coming along nicely. I should make some house blocks. Love yours with the extra strip on the roof. And I have a bunch a squares waiting to be sewn together. I'm through with masks unless someone calls for more but am busy making gowns for nurses and social workers. We all do what we can.
OK, I'm puzzled here... what is a 5-patch?
ReplyDeleteGood job on completing a RSC quilt! It turned out very pretty and I love the neutral separators!
ReplyDeleteHi Nann,
ReplyDeleteLots of little house quilt block/mug rug patterns out there, but like yours the best—cutest of all I've seen. Pattern—your own or someone else's?
Congrats on your mask-making prowess!
Thanks and stay healthy,
Margaret