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"Destination Heartland History"  was the topic at the Clara Cummings Book Club luncheon on Thursday. Cynthia Clampitt enjoys discovering lesser-known sites and attractions as she travels.  She began the program explaining that the historical midwest covers a lot of territory -- Ohio to North Dakota, Michigan to Kansas.  She reminded us that Laura Ingalls Wilder (=pioneer) and Frank Lloyd Wright (=modern) were born in Wisconsin, four months and 150 miles apart.  Pioneer museums, the oldest still-operating restaurant/bar in a town/county, windmills and lighthouses -- so many interesting places.   

Ornaments are hung along the trail at Lyons Woods.  Once you see one you see another, and another.   (I will pay this wonder forward. I have a box of ornaments (rummage sale purchase) that I'll hang along another trail.)  

The Lake County Women's Coalition steering committee combined business and socializing with a luncheon meeting Saturday.  Plans for the Women's History Month luncheon in March are well underway.  

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I used Deb Tucker's V-block Trimmer to make the second units for Indigo Way.   More accurate than Tri-Recs though it takes a bit to figure out how to flip ...

Friday-- dinner with Ann and John (who live in Evanston) and Marty and Pete (who were visiting A and J from Falls Church).   Ann and Stevens went to kindergarten together (in 1945).  Pete and Stevens went to prep school (all-boys) together (7th grade-12th grade).   Ann and Marty were classmates from first grade all the way through college (all- girls/women).  It had been 40 years since Pete and Stevens had seen one another.  (The jacket was one of the first things I made when I moved back to Illinois in the spring of ...

The same same drawer that held the MixMash blocks (see Monday's post) also had a few red rails blocks--17, to be precise.  (For me a red rails *block* is composed of four red rails *units.*  A unit is made out of 3 pieces, 1.5"x3.5".)

Since I emptied the 1.5"x3.5" box for this quilt I wasn't ready to sew up a whole bunch more rails units, let alone rails blocks. 

While I was rooting around in the orphans box I came across some blocks that I pieced out of leftovers from Grassy Creek ...

 The latest WITB ("what's in the box?") project uses the 4.5" unf HSTs I made for last year's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  

Can you guess which of these four layouts I chose?  (I have assembled the flimsy and I'm auditioning backings today.)  I'll tell you the answer in my post on Friday.