Weekly update: solstice, ornament bombing, and a little sewing

 

On Thursday Zion Woman's Club members helped with the Elf Network.  The bags contain sorted Christmas gifts, personalized by age/gender for each family.  Bags are numbered, people present their number and get their bag.  It was very efficient.   

 
We did nothing to observe the solstice but now there will be a minute more daylight in the morning and in the evening.   I love this poem. A friend said she rereads Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series this time of year.  I'd like to revisit them but there are so many other books in the queue. . .

On a forest preserve walk during the first Covid Christmas (just four years ago?!) I encountered Christmas ornaments hung on tree branches along the trail.  Since then I've looked for ornaments for cheap at rummage sales or thrift shops so I can contribute, too. (The hard part is to remember to retrieve them from wherever I've put them.) 

  

Someone got ahead of me with this cardinal. 

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In the studio: 

I'm caught up on the Old Town mystery.  Here are parts four and five.  

I thought I was caught up. Bonnie released Part Six this morning!  

The December guild BOM block is appliqued. I fussy-cut a Kaffe print for the flower.  

I made some broken dishes blocks (6.5" unfinished) with Christmas scraps.  Not sure how (or when) I'll set them.

And then I started something completely different!   

Linking up with Oh Scrap!  Design Wall Monday  Sew and Tell

P.S.  One of the gently-used quilt books I got from the sale rack recently was an anthology from 2000.  Look who I found!