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flying time nearly here so it's been a busy week wrapping things up for the duration.  exercise, 2 medical appointments, zoom quilty meeting, games with new church lady friends, senior center quilt group, eating out of the fridge and cooking and plenty of sewing.  like what sewing?

started putting blocks of wedding quilt together...pattern credit to anorina over at 'samelia's mum'

and started another new project, a small one so won't be a 2024 UFO....

someone gifted me some silvery print small pieces and i wanted to use them (they were constantly whispering to me!)...and had a small piece of this angel print left...so this will be 'advent sky'....someone will surely like it i hope...i do anyway.

and of course, caved on 'amish buggy wheels' and sewed up one scrappy arc...

math skills failed me again and realized i didn't have enough of the teal to pair with purple, but i did have a dark forest green on hand that was enough.

a quilter blogger is making this jo morton pattern and asked me to post mine again...i put it in the hoop just to see how it looks and pulled out the thread for the quilting...after 'midnight' is done, this one will be next.  also finished a small wall quilt that's waiting for a wash, giving me 8 finishes so far this year.  will post photo later....

this went on my door as it'll be mid-september when i return...and put this over the chair just because i really like this piece a lot...memories of keepsake quilting shopping with late NH pal victoria...

tho i am not a perfectionist quilter, some things do come out that way and this is one that did.

preview of some good mysteries from tried-and-true authors coming this fall...

last but not least....a stashbuster pal from my yahoo group passed away last week.  she was a steadfast champion of the pine ridge reservation and spent hours sewing and sending donations for them.  the plight of our native peoples often gets swept under the rug, but they live in deplorable and unsafe conditions, not to mention extreme poverty.  did you know they live in trailers because they cannot get a mortgage to build a house?  true.  the US Government owns reservation land and they are technically tenants...no wonder they work tirelessly to take back ancestral properties.  our government refuses to control illegal immigration but imprisons our native residents...i don't think that's fair do you?  i'll stop there...

ADDENDUM:  star block pattern from Bonnie Hunter's Quiltmaker column called "Spinner"

dog days doings

nearly 90s for the entire week....but it's august and in a few weeks should start modulating a bit.  i've been keeping busy indoors except for early morning dashes to store or gym.  last week was the first since march was able to do 90+ minutes of cardio and it feels good!  frees me from guilt to sit and sew as well...lol. ***  wedding quilt is a priority and just this morning finished all 66 4-patch squares...

now can change thread color and move on to the alternating blocks, 66 of them that'll take a bit more time.  even so, well begun is half done!  and confess, did cave to 'amish buggy wheels' pattern.  it's the solids--they are sirens to me.  have seen many solid quilts in blogs and just could not resist...nearly finished cutting all wedges and using purple/teal instead of red/brown for 9 blocks only...what's on hand.

friday spent the day doing some quilt housekeeping....my wish book....do you have one?  a book with patterns, photos and ideas of things that appeal to me.  was able to cull quite a bit from it--projects that no longer appeal to me, but still plenty left.

here are a couple of christmas sewing ideas still on the someday list....

one of my quick trips was to farmer's market for yummy fresh vegs..had a couple of new cardio-approved recipes to try....first, from lidia bastianich a pasta salad....i can't eat 'suddenly salad' but this one is perfect!

mezzi rigatoni...i leave out the salt of course and go easy on cheese--mozzarella shreds instead of pearls.  made my own pesto as well, again no salt but plenty good anyway!

next recipe from a quilty peep....savory dutch pancake....

recipe called for zuke but had summer squash on hand, otherwise it would be more colorful.  onion, tomato, squash, corn, seasoning, bit of parmesan.  cooking done for a few days. 

it was a full week with only one medical visit and an afternoon with senior center quilty peeps working on 'midnight'...finished up saturday with load of laundry, so ready for the new week!