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January 7, 2025
Weekly update: card shower request, Old Town, estate sale + bargains from With Strings Attached

 I'm starting this week's post with a personal request.

 Stevens will be 85 on January 18.  Can you mail him a birthday card?  If you don't have our address, indicate that in your comment and I will PM it to you.  Five years ago he was quite surprised to get so many cards.   This year he's alert but he's declining, so now is the time.  THANK YOU! 


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I've made 12 out of the 25 blocks for Old Town.  I haven't begun to cut, let alone sew, the turquoise and neutral units for the ...

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November 22, 2024
Friday check in: Snowfall, estate sale, and bingo board with bonuses from With Strings Attached

 


We had 3" of wet snow yesterday.  It 's all melted on pavement and nearly all melted on grass, bushes, and trees.   Cloudy but dry today so I hope we can get a walk this afternoon.





Tuesday was month 13 of Barb M's estate sale.  Stevens went with me but I didn't get a photo.   The quantities are going way down.  Will the next sale in January be the last?  We shall see.  

I paid $1.60 per yard this time.  Many pieces of Thimbleberries (Paintbox 2002).  


Thank you for your compliments on the Bingo Board quilt I ...

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November 4, 2024
Weekly update: lots going on but not sewing! from With Strings Attached


The Zion Woman's Club held its annual ladies' night bunco party Friday evening.  64 women (some girls, too) came out to play.   Most of them were first-timers though there were some who come every year.  Great fun was had by all! 

The Moose Lodge gives us a great deal on the room--$100.  The other benefit is that their bar/restaurant are open so those who want an alcoholic drink can purchase at the bar and bring it upstairs.  


My friend Suzanne won the 50/50 cash raffle ($173 to her, $173 to the club).  My P.E.O ...

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October 21, 2024
Midweek: estate sale encore and a flimsy + quilt history books from With Strings Attached

 Barb M's estate sale began in September, 2023.  Paula and her friends were off in July and this September but were back this month.  And there will be more!   They've raised nearly $25,000 for different charities.  

  Average price $2.20 per yard this time.  You can see why my homespun stash has not diminished.





Not that I am not trying.  Here's the nine/four patch flimsy. 

I have another homespun project underway -- photos to come.


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(Last week I mentioned that a local quilt shop sells gently-used quilt books for $2.00 with the proceeds going to ...

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August 14, 2024
Midweek: cranes, estate sale again!, and a sneak peek from With Strings Attached

 

Mr. and Mrs. Crane ambled through a back yard a couple of blocks away.  I saw them because someone else was taking a photo.   


I was en route to month #11 of Barb M's estate sale.  Paula and her friends took July off.   Months 1-10 have raised $20,000 for local charities.  Proceeds this month go to Bricks of Hope which provides Lego sets to seriously ill kids.  (Read the founder's story about how having Legos to play with when he was treated for childhood leukemia.)  


My purchases at home.   $2.59 per yard this time.  


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July 15, 2024
Weekly update: flowers, fun (and games), (estate sale) find, and a finish from With Strings Attached

 We enjoyed both wild and cultivated flowers this weekend.

The library is the starting point for the Illinois Dunesland Garden Club annual tour. 


This year's sites included the Garden of Faith at Memorial UMC (our church).  People can rent raised garden plots -- 20 this year with room to develop more -- for vegetables and flowers.  

Other gardens on view were in Winthrop Harbor, Carol Beach, and Pleasant Prairie.  



The quirky sculptures were fun!



We've had good rainfall this season and the wildflowers are abundant. 

Illinois Beach/Hosah Park (89 degrees on Sunday). Clockwise from left: chokecherry, mullein, nodding onion ...

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June 26, 2024
Midweek: quilt history, estate sale, and OMG summary from With Strings Attached


Monday afternoon I presented "Every Quilt Tells a Story" to a women's group at my hometown church in Northbrook.  Though I haven't belonged to that church in 50 years it was nice to see several women in the audience who knew my family and remembered my parents.  When the chair introduced me she asked, "Who's known Nann the longest?"  That was Judy, who moved to the house at the end of our block in 1963. (Judy remembers that my mother was the first neighbor to welcome them.)                                             My program includes a concise history of quiltmaking (that's ...

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May 22, 2024
Midweek: estate sale, v. 9 + kit transformation from With Strings Attached

Yesterday was month #9 of Barb M's estate sale and I couldn't NOT go.   Paula and her helpers have become friends over the months.  Several quilting friends were among the shoppers.  The proceeds benefit a different charity each month, this time Kenosha food pantries.  From September to April they've given away $15,500 after expenses (storage unit, hotel meeting room, laundering).   Of course I don't *need* any more fabric!  


40 yards by weight, $2.00 per yard.

Also, two packages of printer fabric for $5.00.


These vintage blocks were $15.  120 6", 250+ 4". I ...

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May 20, 2024
Weekly update: OMG finished, more estate sale bargains + reading from With Strings Attached

 Cue Miss Rumphius!  The lupines are in bloom at Illinois Beach State Park.  I took the snapshots on Friday.  







Our favorite plant/produce shop is open for the season.  Susan always comes out to say hi to Stevens.  One of her customers made a stack of "hug blankets" to give away to other customers who might need a hug so she presented this one to him.

I got geraniums for the front stoop -- and, hooray -- FIVE healthy rhubarb plants that Susan started from seed.  I'll plant them tomorrow. 

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I got notice of a quilter's estate sale in Antioch ...

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April 24, 2024
Midweek: another estate sale and a finished quilt from With Strings Attached

 

This past weekend there was an estate sale two blocks over.  I'd walked past the house many times,.  I popped in Friday morning (before leaving for the AAUW convention).  Wow.  The estate sale personnel said the people had lived there 50+ years but had not occupied the house recently.  1960's decor never updated.  The basement had boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of fabric, nearly all polyester double knit.  I didn't have time to dig through everything but there was some cotton yardage and I grabbed it.  



Isn't this cool?  Cafe curtain yardage in two ...

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April 21, 2024
Friday check in: estate sale, WIP, convention bound, + reading from With Strings Attached

 


Tuesday was month #8 of Barb M's estate sale.  Not as much yardage this time -- stacks of books and many, many, many WIPs in ziploc bags.  



Here's what I purchased.   Average $1.62 per yard by weight.

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Slab block construction continues. I've pretty much decided to make 90 blocks for a 54 x 60 quilt.   10 to go.

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No sewing this evening. I'll be at the AAUW-IL state convention at Elgin Community College.   My sister invited me to spend the night at her house (about 10 miles from the convention).   Our housekeeper V will be here ...

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March 20, 2024
Midweek: a finish, estate sale surprise, and a speaker from With Strings Attached


122 comments and counting!  The response to the Villa Rosa Blog Hop has been great.  Today is the last day for the guest bloggers.  I hope you've visited all of them. 

I finished quilting the second version of Twinkle.  


The FQ bundle I used for the HSTs (the stars) had 11 prints.  Nine made the blocks in the quilt. Rather than making more stars I pieced the other two sets into pinwheels.  The backing fabrics are two 1990's Hoffman prints from Barb M's estate.







And yesterday was Month **SEVEN** of that estate sale.  (If you've missed ...

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February 26, 2024
Weekly update: cranes, spaghetti, estate sale, and a goal finished from With Strings Attached

 


Sign of spring:  cranes at Illinois Beach State Park.  They're camouflaged in the brown grass but their bugling gave them away.

 


I spoke to the driver of one of the trucks hauling rocks for the shoreline stabilization project. He said the quarry is in Waterloo, Wisconsin.  Rocks for inshore are trucked in. Rocks for the offshore reefs are trucked to the Port of Milwaukee and sent by barge, a trip that can take six hours.  Because the weather has been so mild they've been able to get weeks ahead of schedule.  

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Illinois Beach Sunrise Rotary Club prepares and ...

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January 26, 2024
Friday check in: estate sale part V, mug rugs, and the four-patches from With Strings Attached

 The fifth installment of Barb M's estate sale was Tuesday afternoon.  (See hereherehere, and here for the previous sales.)  A quick recap:  Barb passed away in 2018 and left a LOT of sewing stuff -- machines, thread, notions, patterns, kits, and FABRIC.  Barb's husband and family finally needed closure but couldn't deal with it all.  


Enter Paula who enlisted a group of her friends.  Since September they've had monthly sales, the first in Paula's garage and the others in a hotel meeting room.  It took until December to get everything out of the house ...

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December 19, 2023
Weekly update: tragedy, triumph, estate sale delights, and Indigo Way from With Strings Attached


 Look at the upper left of the photo.  That dot is a bald eagle.  He's got his eye on a disabled duck in the lake.   Gulls were doing their part to chase the eagle off.  [Taken after the Friday estate sale.]

I was going to post on Wednesday. I was going to post on Friday.  But things happen.

To make a long story short, I've been figuring out how to adapt the household layout to S's limited mobility and particularly to his advancing dementia.  He wrenched his knee last week so going down to the basement family ...

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November 15, 2023
Midweek: catching up, indulgence, and a new start from With Strings Attached

 


Here are my Bramble Blooms blossoms.  They're fused (Heat 'n' Bond Light) and sewn with a narrow zigzag stitch.









Sparkling Triangles, continued:   I cut the border strips 6" because that was the width of the pattern repeat.  You might think the border print is sufficiently busy to make matched seams unnecessary, but I like to try to do that. (Maybe it's a holdover from all those years of garment sewing....).   I may trim the borders down an inch, but I may not.  



Yesterday was Part III of Barb M's estate sale. Here's my haul -- it worked ...

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October 16, 2023
Weekly update: two concerts, two estate sales, and a start that's finished from With Strings Attached

 


The weekend began and ended with concerts.   The Box Band played a lively set of bluegrass, folk, and country at our church on Friday evening.  The Kontras Quartet performed Haydn and Prokofieff at the season opening of the Lake County Community Concert Assn.  on Sunday afternoon.

A friend tipped me off to an estate sale on the west side of town (a street I didn't know existed).  She said there was a lot of sewing stuff.   I went mid-morning Saturday when everything was half off.  I bypassed the upstairs and garage and went to the finished basement which had ...

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November 14, 2022
Weekly update: a lot to report from With Strings Attached

I got my laptop back from Best Buy late Sunday afternoon. New hard drive, new MS Office, all the Windows updates.  Though I managed to get a fair amount done with the iPad, I'm happy to have the larger screen and keyboard of the laptop.

Not only was I up early Tuesday but I was also out to see the lunar eclipse.  I had to drive a ways to get to a place without street lights and trees.  It was worth it!   




We had a couple of  very warm (70-degree) days that were ideal for walking.  

(Unlike the man ...

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November 9, 2021
Weekly update: goal progress, estate sale, and book reviews from With Strings Attached

 


It's been a while since I was at the lakefront to get a sunrise photo.  This was 7:23 on Saturday -- with the time change it would now be 6:23.  







My OMG for November is to quilt three flimsies.   Here's the first, quilted and bound.  The second is basted and under the needle.   

The back used up some long-in-the-stash fabrics.


There was an estate sale in town this weekend.  The website photos showed sewing machines, notions, patterns, and a lot of fabric. I went on Friday (opening day) to get an idea.  Apparently the woman made clothing ...

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September 20, 2021
Weekly update: quilt rescue and reading from With Strings Attached

 

Be sure to read the previous post to see the week's wildflowers and other activities.

On the way back from a lake shore walk we saw two cranes at the edge of a pond in the park.  I was able to get pretty close to them.

This weekend there was an estate sale about three blocks away.   I had walked past the house often but I didn't know the people who lived there.  (I looked them up: he died in 2012 and she died earlier this year.) I went on Saturday when  everything was 50% off.

There were ...

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