Friday check in: beautiful days, ladder stars, the stash report, OMG

 

Halloween sky: quarter moon

We had an extraordinary run of beautiful weather this week -- temperatures in the low 70's, abundant sunshine. 
 It was ideal for trick-or-treating on Monday (we had about 25 kids).

The AAUW Reflections on Reading book group met outside on Wednesday.  [Yes, I will write a Books of the Week post soon.]

Zinnias are still in bloom in the garden at the library.  (Will that bud at the lower right get to flower?)

And it was shirt-sleeves on my lakefront walks. (True, a flannel shirt. But still!)  

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In the studio:

Three rows yet to be sewn on

I'm setting the Ladder Stars blocks.  After a little searching here, a little searching there I found just-the-right fabrics for sashing, cornerstones, and border.  

Stash report for October:

Fabric IN: 62 yards, $72 (a gift of 38 yards and a good sale)

Fabric OUT: 28-3/8

YTD IN:1718-3/8 yards, $1131, avg. $1.53/yard

YTD OUT: 232-7/8    net gain 1485-7/8 (gulp....where am I putting it all?)

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With that, I declare my One Monthly Goal for November:   come up with a fast-easy-interesting stashbusting design and make three flimsies.   (Finishing these or anything is a bonus.)

.....Lots to do today....linking up with Finished or Not Friday and One Monthly Goal

P.S. The Corporate Community Spelling Bee returned in person last evening after two years by Zoom. Colleen, Steffi, and I spelled for the Zion Woman's Club.  We busted out in round 6 on rhinoceros, which we spelled ...ous.  But  relieved of the pressure, we spelled the other teams’ words just fine: Ptolemaic, wainscot, spinnaker, diphtheria. The winning word was nephritic. The runners-up lost on myrmecology which is the study of ants. (Our team would have missed that, too.)

My chief cheerleader always! ZWC ran the raffle table. The winner of the Christmas Asterisks quilt I donated. Participation was much lighter than pre-pandemic.