Weekly update: a vintage gift and batik crumbs

We were shocked and saddened by the shooting in Highland Park on the Fourth of July.  Among the victims were the superintendent of one of our local school districts and her eight-year-old son.  (HP is 25 miles south of us.)    

Wildflowers are in abundance!  Our outings this week were to Van Patten Woods, Raven Glen, and Illinois Beach. 

Top: purple prairie clover, purple coneflower, butterfly weed, hoary puccoon, tall cinquefoil, salsify (gone to seed), lead plant, Deptford pink, flowering spurge.

 

I love Turk's Cap lilies.  The photo collage includes a view from directly above and from directly below.

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When my high school friend Kathie came to work on the reunion nametags (see previous post) she brought me a gift.  Her grandmother hand-pieced this chambray-and-muslin spool top.  It's 80 x 80.  There are some brown spots but it's otherwise in fine shape. I will enjoy being its new owner.

I've been working on batik crumb blocks this week.  I've made some into HSTs (6-1/2" unfinished).   I'd like to use up some yardage and the turquoise check batik seemed the best choice.  I'm contemplating different orientations.

Linking up with Oh Scrap! Monday Making Design Wall Monday

P.S. Wild raspberries are ripe! We helped ourselves to a sample. They're seedy but tasty.   (You can't harvest or forage in the forest preserve.)