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It rained briefly on Friday morning but the sun came out before lunchtime. It was a beautiful evening for the Fourth of July festivities at Shiloh Park in Zion. There was a big crowd for the concert by a band called Mike & Joe (80's rock). They played for two hours without a break.
The fireworks began at 9:30. My phone camera captured a couple of them.
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My quilting goal for the July is to keep up with a variety of projects. I got a great start!
The yellow stars were made from scraps from a 2023 project. I began assembling them before I went to the ALA conference. They're now a flimsy. 39 x 44.
I surprised myself that the border blocks fit precisely.
The final block for the guild BOM was released midweek. It's the shooting star in the center.
The BOM designer suggested a straight set with sashing and cornerstones. I'm contemplating other ideas to camouflage the imbalance of the blocks (variance in complexity, light/dark, etc.).
I made 8 nine-patch blocks in purple for one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects.
I used darker, dustier purples with gold. The purple/gold border print was a serendipitous fund in the stash and there was enough of it!
This is month #2 of the guild round robin. M.N. provided FQs of Cherrywood solids plus a blender and asked that we use only those.I can't show you the entire quilt-in-progress because it's a surprise, but you can see part of the border I added. I used the Split-Rects ruler by Studio 180.
Now I'm working on blocks for Jasper, the Running Doe Topalong for July. I'm using shirtings supplemented by some homespun plaids.
Linking up with RSC at So Scrappy Oh Scrap! Sew and Tell Design Wall Monday Monday Musings.
P.S. On my evening walk in the neighborhood. There was no sign of the mate.
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