Midweek: hiking boots and placemats

 When I visited Stevens at lunchtime yesterday he was dressed in sweatpants and a t-shirt and seated in a wheelchair across from the nurses' station!  That's progress. I meet with the entire care team today.

At the Zion Woman's Club board meeting yesterday afternoon the treasurer reported that last Friday's Bunco night netted $1400. Hooray!    Our charities account is fully funded to meet our obligations this year.  We allocated $1800 of that to nine local agencies (two food pantries, the library, the historical society, and others).  We previously allocated funds to GFWC-IL state projects.  We will present two scholarships ($1000 general and $500 art) to two girls graduating from Zion-Benton Twp High School this spring.

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There is a "wall of chapters" display each year at the P.E.O. Illinois convention. Chapters summarize their annual activities in a way that reflects the state president's theme.  This year the theme is "Blaze a Trail with P.E.O." and the wall of chapters will feature hiking boots.  I used the template provided as the base for a fabric collage. I fused the fabric and stitched the rickrack to card stock.  The lettering is printed on adhesive clear label stuff.    I fused a map to the back to cover the stitching.   

What's remarkable is that I remembered yesterday morning that I volunteered to make this. It's due May 1.  

Two placemats finished and two more ready to quilt.  The leftover blocks from Gray Scale didn't even make it to the orphans box. 

Linking up with  Wednesday Wait Loss 

Thanks for the shout out, Jennifer!