Friday, December 5, 2025

Friday check in: holiday happenings and some sewing

 



Clear skies, cold temperatures this week.

The supermoon as seen from the back yard Thursday at 5 p.m.  

Tuesday:   Zion Woman's Club luncheon at a local restaurant.  We exchanged "festive food" -- a useful alternative to white elephants which are too often a way to get rid of one "dustable" and in turn take home someone else's dustable.   I brought some of my Christmas tablecloths to set the table. 



Wednesday:  the quilt guild holiday dinner at a restaurant in Antioch.  There were fun games (A-Z, name a quilt-related item; what's on your phone? with points for apps, battery life, etc.).  Each attendee got five tickets for a UFO raffle and could buy more. I brought two UFOs (14 yards by weight) and, hooray, I didn't win anything.  There was an ornament swap and a Secret Santa tote bag swap.  


I showed my contributions a couple of weeks ago.  Here's the tote bag I got -- a great size to haul works-in-progress.

See the quilt behind me?  That's this year's guild raffle quilt.  The winning ticket was drawn at the end of the evening.   The winner was present and she was delighted.


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In the studio:  I'm working on two projects at once.  



I began the String X blocks a few weeks ago.  I used all of one blue print and found another that's so close in color you can hardly tell the difference. 

 I need to cut more strings to size (1-1/2" to 2-1/2" by 5").   I have enough blue for 24 quarters (=6 blocks).  I'll try to find another blue to make a total of 25 blocks. 





When Cynthia announced the new block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts   (here)  I got right to work!  The framed four-patches are fun to make.  



Linking up at Finished or Not Friday


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