Weekly update: OMG February, two finishes, a whole lot of potential, and reading

 My One Monthly Goal for February was to put labels on finished quilts.  One evening I went to work and got them done.  

I print multiple labels on printer-fabric sheets. Some include my name and others are just Hilyard Studio. I write the name, date, and occasion when those are relevant. When a quilt doesn't have a destination I don't include that information. (If I donate a quilt that I made in 2017 to an event in 2021 I don't want it to appear that I dusted off an old project, even if that's pretty much what I did. 

Here's the stack.  The February OMG Finish Link Up is here

I surprised myself and quilted two flimsies this week.  (I labeled them, too.)  

The zigzag pinwheels were shown in last week's post.  (I used the rest of the blue-green check [see it in the labeled stack, above?] and dipped into the endless supply of mini 9-patches for the pieced back. 

 

I used a variety of blues for the back of the jewel box quilt.  I made the top in early January as part of the Civil War Repro Stash Reduction Project.  

I think this one has a name -- New Tricks, because the setting demonstrates that you can teach an old block new tricks.  

the flimsy 

One batch of potential arrived mid-week.  Batting was on sale on the Joann's website. I had a coupon for free shipping and two gift cards.   The 40-yard bolt will wait until I've used up the rest of the previous bolt which you can see in the first photo in this post.  (That is Warm & Plush which came in a 30-yard bolt from Amazon. It's definitely "plusher" than Warm & Natural. I'll stick with the latter from now on out.  (Yes, the new bolt is Warm & White. That's fine with me.)

I remember back 25 years ago when I lived in Fargo. Joann's had W&N on sale and I splurged and bought a bolt. That was a lot of  money at the time, even with a coupon.  I thought they might never have it on sale again (was I wrong!). I also thought it would be years before I'd use it up (wrong again).

The other potential is the result of a months-long, now-and-again project.  I admire the ways that Wanda (Exuberant Color) combines simple units that burst with color. I've made two quilts that use bright-and-neutral batik  3.5" unfin HSTs (here and here).   Now I have 1,000 of them in the box, enough for several future projects.   (BTW, 1,000 3.5" HSTs = 9.5 yards. Just sayin'.)

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This week's reading and listening: 

Anne Youngson's debut Meet Me at the Museum is a lovely epistolary novel about two lonely people in late middle age.  Tina is a farmer's wife in East Anglia. Anders is a museum curator in Denmark. Over the course of sixteen months their correspondence allows both to articulate their innermost feelings. The ending is unpredictable, which is a good thing.   

Desolation Mountain is #17 in the Cork O'Connor series. I've now listened to all of them -- in order -- with the excellent narration by David Chandler. (If I ever hear William Kent Krueger speak I'm sure I'll be surprised that he doesn't sound like Chandler.)   It's been great to see the O'Connor kids grow up, to see Cork and Rainey's relationship deepen, and of course to know that the Ojibwe mide (wise man) Henry Meloux is still around.  

Krueger's most recent book, This Tender Land, is a stand-alone.  (I haven't read it yet.)  He plans to write at least three more Cork books. 

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