Weekly update: finished + acquisitions

 Wildflowers at Greenbelt Forest Preserve on Sunday afternoon.  A good 2-mile walk.

Beardtongue foxglove, wild flag iris, oxeye daisy, feverfew, Japanese rose.  

June goal #2:  10 placemats. All finished.  The average fabric in each one is 3/8 yard so 3-3/4 yards for the batch.  

I used up two ziploc bags of triangles. The hourglasses (top right and lower left) were made from 4-1/2" triangles cut diagonally and repieced. 

Some fabric in the "used" column but more fabric in the "acquired" column.   

A guild friend said that her church rummage sale (Thursday-Saturday) had gotten a quilter's estate.  I purposely stayed away until Saturday morning when it was "fill a box."  Small box $10, medium $20, large $30.  "And you can fill it as full as you want," said the fifth-grader who was 'selling' the boxes, demonstrating a big pile with her hands.  I bought a $30 box and filled it.   

There wasn't much yardage left (I got two 4-yd pieces).  There were a lot of men's shirts.  I also got a duvet cover and a fitted sheet.  I de-boned the shirts (I don't keep collars/cuffs/plackets/buttons) and removed seams and hems from the bedding.   I weighed it all:   56-3/8 yards.  For $30 total.  You know me:  if I can't resist buying fabric then I'm going for bargains!  

Rather than putting all the newly cut-up shirts in a box I began cutting.   These blocks are Farmyard Fun by Melissa Milligan, the June top-along pattern.   I may stick with blues but I may introduce a couple of colors....

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I watched this 2013 movie on Friday evening. (Now streaming on Acorn.)   I'd never heard of it.  It kept my attention.

I checked Hoopla to find a new audiobook to listen to.   To my surprise The Calamity Club by Katherine Stockett was available.    It's very long (26 hours) and really, really good.  I'm halfway through.  

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