Weekly update: walking, quilting, and thrift shop score

 You are correct.  This is not the travelog.  I worked on it for a while yesterday. I'm up to Thursday, October 8.  I'll finish it later this week, I promise. 

Saturday morning I participated in the World's Largest Polio Walk with Rotarians and friends from my club and the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Club.  One mile from the Lake Bluff park to Lake Forest High School and one mile back was no problem in the golden autumn sunshine. 

The Rotary initiative to end polio began in 1985.  Polio has been reduced by 99.9%. The wild virus is endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  

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Though I could sew any time of day, evening still feels like quilting time, and that's what I did instead of composing the travelog.  

Walk in the Park was pinned to the design wall while I was gone. When I couldn't sleep I contemplated how I would quilt it. Once home I went from contemplating to doing.  Here it is!   

I used the walking foot to quilt the center panel. I free-motioned the side panels.  

Just about anything would have worked for the back. These are cut-offs from leftover wide-back fabric. 

60 x 78, 6-1/4 yards total.  

Main Street is the Running Doe top-along pattern for October.   I chose the background first and my stash easily came up with the coordinating prints.  That background is an "I can't cut it!" that I got in New Hampshire in 2021.  There's more than a yard left.   The flimsy is 45 x 54.  (It would be interesting to set the blocks on point....)

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 I want to hang the two small paintings I bought in Morocco before they get consigned to the souvenir closet.  I didn't have any suitable frames (either empty or with art that I could swap out) so I went to several thrift shops on Saturday afternoon.  I found frames that will work.  

 Look what else came home with me!  

A Singer 301A long bed with attachments and manual.  She has the bobbin case but no extra bobbins (I've got bobbins).  Last serviced in 2018 (report included) so with a few drops of oil she will be ready to go.  The carrying case is a little battered but for $100 !!!! I'll manage.  

I looked up the serial number: 1953, Anderson, SC.  

Her name is Lucy.   That means "light."  (Latin "lux.")   My beloved 301A tan short bed is Sweetness, so now I have Sweetness and Lucy (sweetness and light).

The thrift shop also had all this Aurifil 28wt  thread for **$2** per spool. (Retail $15.)   That's heavier than the orange-spool Aurifil (50wt).  I bought a spool to experiment. It works just fine.  I will return to the thrift shop today.

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