Friday check in: guild speaker

 Judy Martin presented a trunk show at Wednesday's guild meeting.  I'm sure you've known about her as long as I have!  She came to quilting from years of garment sewing. Her first quilt was made from clothing scraps when she was in college in the late 1960's.  She has published eight pattern books.  

 Nearly all of the 24 of the quilts she showed are really big.   

 The designs look really complex but when she showed how the blocks fit together they didn't seem so intimidating.

Though I've owned many of her books I admit that I've never made any of the patterns.   I keep thinking I'd like to make Shakespeare in the Park (which was not in this trunk show).  

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Also at the guild meeting:   the half-yard challenge reveal was at last month's meeting but my partner Cathy and I could not attend.    (Participants chose four half yards that were exchanged. The challenge was to make a quilt (flimsy was okay) using the half yards,)   Now we've swapped.  

She used her embroidery machine to create clever sewing-room 'encouragement'.   I used a Villa Rosa pattern for stars and rail fences.

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I was in the car rather than on the trail yesterday.    In March when Stevens was having increasing difficulty standing up we got a lift assist, a contraption that does just that.  We bought it, nearly new, half list price, from a woman who was one of our caregiver's other clients.  S used it less than a week before he was hospitalized and it's been in the garage ever since.  FB Marketplace wouldn't allow the listing because it is 'medical equipment.'  I looked up "donated medical equipment" and found  Devices 4 the Disabled . I called and, yes, they can use the lift assist.   The suburban drop-off is in Algonquin, 40 miles but an hour and a half away but that was better than driving into Chicago!    Good to get that out of the garage and, hopefully, on the way to someone who can use it. 

I'm planning an adventure for today.  Come back on Monday to find out!

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