My trip to New Zealand was wonderful! You can read all about it in the post right before this one.
It didn't take long to recover from jet lag but I caught a cold on the way home (15 hours on three airplane flights means a lot of exposure). I can finally be more than a foot away from a box of Kleenex.
When I left the amaryllis had one bud. I took it next door to Mike and Jen who watched the house for me. It liked its vacation home! Four blossoms.
Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning were spent in the company of Rotarians as we cooked, assembled, and delivered 130 spaghetti dinners for area seniors/shut-ins.
This is the service project for which I made placemats all last year. I don't know how the recipients reacted but Rotarians liked them!
Admiration is great encouragement. I've decided I'll make placemats for 2027.
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Now I can reveal what I sent to her. She said she likes traditional designs used in non-traditional ways.
I used batiks for the star points and the background. The quilting is vertical serpentine lines a presser-foot width apart.
I began working on String X blocks last fall. Now they're a flimsy.
I'm not 100% sold on the outer border--the print has no white whereas there's a lot of white in the blocks. I don't want to buy any fabric, so I'll put this in the box of flimsies and let it simmer.
Prior to the trip I took a flimsy to Barb-the-quilter. I picked it up Wednesday and bound it that evening.
The back was free, part of a destash.
Here it is before quilting so you can see the border.
When I picked it up I delivered another flimsy for Barb's beautiful work.
There's more going on but I'll stop for now. Linking up with Design Wall Monday Monday Musings Sew and Tell
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