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How cool is this?  My town is on commercially-printed quilt fabric! 

It's BasicGrey "Compositions" for Moda. I bought it because of the soft gray-on gray color and because I like text prints. When I took it out to cut into it I took a moment to read it.

The map image shows the railway depots north and northwest of Chicago.  Winthrop Harbor is the farthest northeast. The vertical white lines are part of the fabric design. My guess is that it's pre-WWI.  There are some stations that aren't towns (e.g. Ontarioville, now part of Hanover Park ...

It was a month of more acquisition than use.                 Fabric in, June:  81-1/2 yds, $605 (avg. $7.45/yd)                    Fabric out, June: 30-1/8 yds  (paltry, I know)                        Fabric in, YTD:   181-1/8 yds, $764 (avg. $4.22/yd)              Fabric out, YTD:  247-1/2 yds                                                Net reduction: 66-3/8 yds

I ended up with 30 Positivity blocks. (Thank you, Bonnie in VA, for the neutral FQs that provided enough background for seven blocks.)  The flimsy used 3-3/8 yards that will go in the July report. 

My July OMG is the same as June:  decide the design for the ...

 When Preeti announced the Positivity Quiltalong I thought, "I can do this!" but I confess I forgot about that pledge until one of the other bloggers posted her initial PQAL blocks.  I quickly went to Preeti's blog and copied all the relevant information.  (If you've missed the details, start here and follow the tagged posts.)

The block construction is simple.  Preeti's blog shows some variations (triangle corners, square corners) and layout ideas.  The fabric choices are the challenge.  Miscellaneous scrappy? Rainbow? Floral? A genre -- but which one? (Aussie, Kaffe, batik, Civil War, 30's....)

I went with ...