Weekly update: SAHRR, Old Town, and reading

How nice to get this FB message first thing on Saturday! 

This is the quilt that she won.  (Working title: "Go Scrappy or Go Home.")   

The weather cooperated Saturday morning for the spaghetti dinner delivery.  All our "customers" (neighbors mostly) were appreciative.  We had two of the dinners ourselves -- tasty!  

Saturday afternoon I went to the last hours of an estate sale.  The advertised German nutcrackers were long gone by the time I got there but I got a nice office chair on wheels for $7.00.   The seat-lifter on the Steelcase chair I've had at my sewing machine for 15+ yrs has quit working.  I moved the Steelcase chair in my home office to the studio. This estate sale chair will go in the home office. [Yes, Steelcase furniture can be repaired but that would be more than $7.00.]

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This week's prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin is "stars." Conveniently I had a stack of 4-1/2" (unfinished) variable stars in the batik box. 

More progress:  

I assembled the Old Town blocks and added the inner border.  

Here are the checkerboard inner borders. You can see my living-room set up with Stevens in the background (Superbowl playing).

On the design floor:   I bought both sizes of Drunkard's Path templates from Marti Michell's retirement sale.  Her method and instructions make them almost easy.  The tedious but necessary part is pinning.

I cleared the DPs away to show another RSC blue project:  9" Ohio Stars. 

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An interesting look at the dynamic of one family.

"No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister." (p. 258) 

Olivia "Ollie" Shred is a beautiful, talented athlete.  She's also selfish and manipulative -- and, as it turns out, mentally ill.   Younger sister Amy is studious, socially awkward, and caught up in Ollie's orbit even as she is repelled by it.  Their mother is determined to show the world only a perfect family while their father loses himself in his successful business.  

 Ollie has inpatient treatment but runs away, establishing a pattern for the next twenty years. She returns home to be bailed out yet again, and disappears overnight.  Eventually she makes her way to Hollywood where, being Ollie, she charms a studio producer.  Amy puts all of her efforts and energy into academics (biochemistry at Columbia).  When she loses her research grant she switches to publishing where she finds success as an editor though she is less successful in love.  It's not a happy story, but it ends with a glint of hope.  

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