Friday check in: wildflowers, VRD x 3, potato chips + reading

 

Mid-June wildflowers on my walks this week. Clockwise:  coneflower, purple meadow-rue, beardtongue foxglove, wild indigo, more beardtongue, clover, field bindweed.  Center: the trail at Lyons Woods.

Spangled fritillary and what I think is celestrina echo (I enlarged the snapshot of this little blue butterfly). 

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I've made three of the six projects for the Villa Rosa summer challenge.  Week 1:  "under 50 x 50" which I interpret to be "under 200" perimeter."   That's because I added a narrow border to stabilize the edges for my entry in this category.  That border boosted Split Charms to 43-1/2" x 52-1/2" but the total is less than 200".

I used thrifted shirts and some other quilting cottons.  The inserts are a mix of Grunge and other tone-on-tones.  

 

I quilted it with straight meandering.  

Week 1 entries are due 6/25.

The Week 2 challenge, due July 3, is "tote bag." I chose Tabitha Jane.  It's reversible.

The pattern calls for six FQs but I used four.  It was easy to put together.  I added orange rickrack on the seamlines.   The left photo is one side and the right photo is the other side.   

If I made this again I'd change it so much it would hardly be this pattern -- the defining feature being using two prints on the outside.  I wouldn't make it reversible (one print for the lining), the handles would be narrower, and I'd box the bottom.   But I pretty much followed the instructions for the purposes of the challenge.

The Week 4 challenge, due July 17, is "scarf."  I chose Inessa Jane.  It's an infinity scarf meaning it's a big tube.  I used a cotton lawn that I got at a thrift store years and years ago with the idea that I'd use it in something art-quilty.  It's just the right weight for a scarf.

I have patterns for the other three weeks in this summer challenge in the queue.  I'm sewing ahead to accommodate my travel schedule for the summer.

 But meanwhile, I've begun potato chip blocks for Cynthia's recently-announced block drive.  (Read all about it here)   

Will the FQ/chunks bins get any emptier?  LOL!

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"Remember the ladies," Abigail Adams told her husband John.   Thanks to Norah O'Donnell's research and engaging presentation I know more about some women I'd heard of and a lot more about women new to me.  

Linking up with Finished or Not Friday  Brag About Your Beauties