Friday check in: the corollary kicks in, but there's progress

 

The 24th annual Zion-Benton Senior Resource Expo was Wednesday at the Zion Park District Leisure Center.   This year Zion Woman's Club had a table along with area agencies including libraries (Zion-Benton (mine) and Waukegan), Lake County Forest Preserves, banks, home health care, and state and county officials. 

 

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In the studio:   

A house is the template for the chapter highlights display at the P.E.O. state convention.  Any medium is welcome (many chapters do scrapbooking-type collages). I use fabric, of course, and here's how it turned out.  The lettering is printed on adhesive label plastic (8-1/2 x 11 sheets)  that I put on after the quilting. I can peel off the labels after the convention.

(BTW, the smile on the sun is part of the fabric. I just fussy cut it.)

The bigger P.E.O.-related quilting project is April's OMG:  a Trip Around the World to use as the backdrop for my scholarship committee table.   I found many TATW designs and different TATW assembly suggestions.  What I kept going back to was this one from a Temecula Quilts book.  I liked the colorway.   Their pattern uses 1-1/2" squares.  I need a larger quilt and decided on 4-1/2" squares.  Remember that I made 37 TATW mug rugs in batiks for this display, so the backdrop quilt will be batik.  And using stash is a given. 

You know the saying, "Measure twice, cut once."  There is a corollary!  "Design twice, cut once."  And I violated that right off the bat.   I followed the Temecula colorway with three creams, three tans, taupe, red, charcoal, blue.  I cut 4-1/2" squares in all the colors, even if they weren't exactly the contrast I wanted. 

I didn't take a photo of the array on the design wall. Suffice it to say I wasn't thrilled.

Would I have to buy more fabric?   

I went back to the stash bins.  And look what happened! 

(And now I have 150+ 4-1/2" cream, tan, taupe, and blue batik squares to use in another project.)

The column on the right is the top row.  I began laying out the squares with the middle row and ran out of room at the top.  I wasn't going to risk messing up the sequence by moving everything down.  

I got all the rows pinned right away because I didn't want any of the patches to drift.  

At the end of last evening's sewing I had 12 rows sewn.

But now it's Friday morning.  I have to get going.  I'm having a quilty adventure today.  Come back on Monday to find out more!

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