Just for fun ...

 

 

... because one can never have too many projects started, right?

 

I've always wanted to to make a classic string spider web quilt like this, but never got around to it.  Yesterday I had a bag of 30s scraps out, and  I decided to use

Bonnie Hunter's Spider Web directions 

to try just one  block. Well, one block led to three, and a summer whimsy project has been born! 

 

The blocks are easy and fun, and I probably have enough strings in the one bag I opened for twenty or twenty-four blocks all together.  Or -- more likely -- I'll get bored somewhere around block #10, and put the whole thing away for a couple of years.

 

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Watermelon strings

 

My guild's comfort quilt inventory is reeeeaaaally low right now, so I zipped up an extra one for this month's meeting.  These were **interesting** fabrics from the guild's stash.  Just need to turn that binding to the back and it'll be good to go.

 

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Smokey mountains

A big wildfire broke out this afternoon down on the Morongo Indian Reservation, about 25 miles from here.  The wind is sending all the smoke and ash right this way, into Bear Valley.  Click on the second picture to see the view from the airport looking at our local mountaintops, which are all but obscured by the heavy smoke.  It's been a very dry year, and we're in for a bad fire season.

 

 

 

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Stash report - week 23

Used this week: 11.00 yards
Used year to date: 156.50 yards
Added this week: 14.00 yards
Added year to date: 77.50 yards

Net used for 2013: 79.00 yards

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