Weekly update: inches to spare

Our church has begun in-person worship again.  Every other pew is blocked off and people must wear masks and sit only with their spouses/families.  It's a good thing we have a large sanctuary and a small congregation.  They are also continuing to  tape a version of the service that is on YouTube at the same time as the in-person service.  I went to church and set up the computer at home for my husband.  (His allergies make mask-wearing a challenge.  Now that I've seen what in-person is like I think he can try it next week.)

I multi-tasked on Saturday morning. I had a 2-1/2 hour Zoom webinar that I needed to attend.  I set up the laptop in my studio and cut and sewed while the audio/video were muted. It was easy to take notes when I needed to.

It was so hot on Sunday that other than going to church I didn't leave the house. It was too hot even to sit in the shade on the patio to read.  I wasn't about to go to the beach which I'm sure was crowded.    I spent the afternoon sewing, of course, while I finished listening to Trickster's Point, #12 in the Cork Corcoran series by William Kent Krueger.  (I have read or listened to many of these mysteries but this spring I began again with the audio from #1, and taking them in order.)


The 30-patch blocks are a flimsy!  I auditioned a variety of batiks for the border but none of the larger pieces had the color balance I had in mind.  I dug deeper and found a black batik that was 45" long -- almost enough but not quite. What to do?
The half-blocks were just enough.

These scraps are all that was left.

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 Interlibrary loan is back among the 26 libraries in our consortium so I *finally* got Faster -- I placed the reserve in March, just before the shutdown.  It's about a Jewish Grand Prix driver who thwarted Nazi efforts to dominate the circuit in the late 1930's.  I didn't know much at all about auto racing in that era -- I was more interested in the social history. Very interesting.

The Glass Hotel is an advance copy from ALA Midwinter. It was published in March. The ripples created by a crooked financier's Ponzi scheme spread across continents and decades.

The new novel by Anne Tyler is also checked out from the library (yay!)   Tyler's descriptions of quirky people and their Baltimore neighborhoods are crystalline in their precision -- just enough to envision the scene.  Redhead by the Side of the Road has enough tension to keep the reader guessing -- and a happy ending.