Friday check in: OMG November + Old Town and a new project

 I hope your Thanksgiving Day was pleasant.  

I made two of our traditional favorites:  Mama Stamberg's Cranberry Relish and cranberry bread.  In 1990 my colleague Pam raced into the library saying she'd just heard a great recipe on NPR and had to write it down before she forgot it.  I still use the copy made from her transcription (lower right) though  NPR tells the story every year.     I discovered the cranberry bread recipe circa 1976 when I read Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin for a library storytime.   Recipe cards with splatters indicate tried, true, and delicious! 

# # # # #    My OMG for November:  " (1) quilt two flimsies, (2) sew blocks, maybe flimsies, using a different genre from homespun, (3) pull fabric for Old Town, the 2024 Quiltville mystery."

I've done #1 (the two bingo board quilts, and seven placemats, and the holiday table runner).    All of them fulfill the not-homespun #2. (Oh, and I also quilted one of the homespun flimsies I made in October.)     I did not pull fabric for Old Town.  I just dived in and made part one, flying geese.   

Part Two dropped this morning -- a LOT of red-and-neutral four patches.  Lo and behold, I already have a bunch of those sewn up. 

The new project came out of nowhere and I'm having great fun making the blocks.  I started with fabric foundations (a worn-out bed sheet) that I cut 10 x 5".   I trimmed the first batch of blocks to 9.5 x 4.5.  Then I realized that putting two of those together made a block 9.5 x 9 (or 9 x 8.5 finished).   Square blocks are easier to arrange!   I cut each to 8.5 x 4.5. Two of those make a block 8.5 x 8.5.   

There are many ways to arrange them. I'm aiming for 72 square blocks (=144 halves, obviously) for a quilt that's 64 x 72.

The strings are 1.5".

 Linking up with  OMG November and Finished or Not Friday.