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Orange is the color for RSC this month. I made 8 9-patch blocks for one project and I've begun a batch of Ohio Stars. This year I'm making a wheelchair/lap quilt each month using Ohio Stars in the month's color.
The June block for the guild BOM is in the center with the previous months' blocks surrounding it.
Round Robin starts at this evening's guild meeting. My starter block is a pot of flowers that I designed when I co-chaired the 2021-22 BOM. (Three years already?!) My requests are that subsequent rounds feature a little or a lot of light gray and that it be rectangular, not square.
It's time to declare my goals for June.
(1) Sort and file the fabric I've acquired recently. (That's a carryover from May.)
(2) Give fabric away.
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I splurged and bought Victoria Findlay Wolfe's latest book The Quilting Experience. It's partly her memoir but it's also a pattern book and a guided exploration of the stages of quilters' lives. Each chapter is about one of those stages (identity, connection, aging, travel, etc.) with anecdotes by other quiltmakers. Wolfe designed a quilt block to go with each chapter theme and puts them all together in a grand sampler called the Experience Quilt. There are also 11 separate projects that use the blocks. The stories are wonderful and the blocks make me want to start pulling fabric to make my version of the Experience Quilt.
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Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss and OMG at Stories from the Sewing Room
When cousins move far away it's hard to get together very often, if ever. It's a special time of getting caught up on the family. I just had a visit from a cousin I hadn't seen for 6 years, my only cousin on my mother's side.
ReplyDeleteYour orange wheelchair/ lap quilt will make some orange lover happy.
I have that book too and haven't gotten very far into it yet. She has made some interesting quilts.
Your orange blocks are really pretty! I like those guild blocks, too. The black background makes those bright colors pop! The book sounds interesting - the quilt you show is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I saw any of my cousins. It's been decades. Sounds like you had a very nice catch up. Your orange blocks are such fun. Your Guild BOM blocks are looking good. Happy stitching this week.
ReplyDeletenann you are a temptress..that is a delightful quilt project and will have to check out the book for all its goodies...loving the orange and the BOM too...anxious to see the end of it
ReplyDeleteHow fun to meet up with a cousin after so long! Your projects all look fantastic and the book looks very intriguing (but then again, most books do 🙂).
ReplyDeleteWow, your orange blocks are bright! And cheerful, too.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea to use the month's color for one quilt, and finishing it during the month.
Your pot of flowers for the round robin is fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next.
I remembering borrowing Wolfe's book from the library and enjoying it a lot.
It's good you and your sister were able to get together with your cousin. It's strange how cousins are sometimes close and other times not.
I don't usually love a lot of orange on its own, but your blocks are just splendid!
ReplyDeleteThe idea of monthly colored quilts is really fun - and with wheelchair size seems doable. Plus you end up with a rainbow of quilts, unless you donate them one at a time.
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Getting together with family is wonderful. One of my cousins I haven't seen in awhile called this week and we're hoping to organize a get together with another cousin sometime over the summer.
ReplyDeleteI have cousins we were closer to and others I don't know at all. An actually the ones I know better are second cousins, not even first cousins. Love your orange RSC blocks!
ReplyDeleteLovely projects this week! I adore the background you used for your BOM. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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