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I finished hike #9 for the annual Hike Lake County challenge.  Independence Grove  is more like a city park than a forest preserve. It is really crowded on the weekends (I know from previous visits) but this particular Monday afternoon it wasn’t very busy. The hiking “trail” is a blacktop bike path.

Mountain mint, evening primrose, joe pye week. American white waterlily, elderberry "lace," goldenrod. Dogwood.

"Something yellow" was my stated One Monthly Goal for August.  I'm counting this quilt and Borderlands ...

What about sashing?   Nothing in the Aussie fabric box worked (mostly F8ths and FQs in that collection)  My stash yielded a Stonehenge print that was just right.  Alas, I was a few sashes short.  I found another tone-on-tone yellow-gold that blends nicely and I'm going to go with it.

Yellow is the RSC color for August so there's a goal achieved.

My entry for the guild challenge is quilted, bound, and labeled.   

This is all I will show you because it's a surprise. The reveal is at the September 6 guild meeting. 

At the PieFest in 2008 I made a lot of red/black/white flying geese.  They are 3" x 5-1/2" unfinished.   I used five in this project.  

I’m composing this post on my iPad and cannot cut-and-paste to edit.  Please bear with me!

I spilled a mug of coffee on my computer yesterday morning.  I got a Geek Squad appointment at Best Buy at 12:20 where I was told that with a 7-year-old laptop it was toast.  They only had a floor model of the new version but another store had one, so we drove another 15 miles to pick it up, then dropped it off at the first Best Buy.  “Estimate five days for the data transfer and set up,” the Geek Squad woman ...

There are a few oranges here, too.  I'm planning to make 42 blocks (8-1/2" unfinished).  There's more to the design.   I hope to have a flimsy to show mid-week.

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My mother loved reading British mysteries. (So did my dad.). In 1987 they were in Scotland during the Edinburgh Book Festival. Lady Antonia Fraser was a featured author. Mother said, “Oh ...

I'm delighted to be among the bloggers participating in the Hands2Help blog hop !

Avid, committed quiltmakers bestow quilts on their immediate and extended families. They happily make quilts for baby and wedding gifts, graduations and retirements and anniversaries.  They have wall hangings and placemats for every season. They may even sell a few pieces. But the inspiration keeps coming -- online, in print, at shops and shows, from fellow quilters.  What does a quiltmaker do?  Make quilts for strangers, of course.

Grant Woods 

The pine trees in rows are remainders of a tree farm.

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As predicted, the purple placemats are completed.   

They're not all the same size. They're intended as a charity donation, not kept as a set.

I still have two dozen purple triangles (mostly light lavender).   Meanwhile, I sewed some of the scraps into crumb blocks.

Linking up with Midweek Makers and Wednesday Wait Loss

I went to the marina/state park at sunset yesterday to see the conjunction of five planets .   The sky was cloudless.

We used Memorial UMC's kitchen.    Chris and Lisa made the sauce on Thursday evening while Pamela and I began salad prep and cookie packaging.   Rotarians, Interactors (high school), and friends turned out on Saturday morning to assemble the meals (spaghetti and sauce, salad, a roll, and a cookie).  All delivered by noon!

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These blocks were left over from two previous projects.  All homespun plaids.

OMG, part 2:   something green, the March RSC color.

Placemats are another guild charity project.  I used left over RSC units (2020 and 2019).  

The Big Coins quilt is finished! 65 x 70, approx.  The coins are 2"x5.5" unfinished. The sashes are 5.5" unfinished.  You can see ...

Friday, 6:30 a.m.:  I shoveled the driveway and front walk before I'd had any coffee!   We got about 3" from the storm.  (Milwaukee, 45 miles north, got 9".)

Saturday evening we enjoyed the Lake County Symphony Orchestra's performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 1.  

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I surprised myself!  The blue and white blanket weave quilt is quilted and bound.  On Wednesday I wrote that I had to trim quite a bit to even up the sides.  I had to do more trimming when the quilting was finished.  

The large floral print on the back was a gift from our dear Magpie Celia's stash.  (Her daughter sent each of us a box.) 

5-3/8 yards for this project.

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The MQG mini quilt was my January OMG.  I wrote about it earlier.  My swap partner wrote to say she received it and she likes it.   She ...

Top right:  milkweed pod. Center: "winter berries" is my generic name; moss is about the only green this time of year. Bottom: ground cherries; Indian hemp, aka dogbane, pods.  Here's more about dogbane.

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