This is the deep dish pizza that my son, Hugh, and I made for dinner on Thursday night (the 4th of July). Happy tummies! :) We did not go to the fireworks - have not for many years. Used to go when the kids were young but the multitudes of crowds and traffic are too much for us now. :P
The weather has been blistering hot here (sometimes literally). Our air conditioner quilt working suddenly on Friday afternoon. Luckily we could get a repair tech here on Saturday morning and get it repaired - there was a capacitor blown out in the heat pump that needed to be replaced. I think God every day for all the people that worked on creating air conditioning!! I do not think I could bear to live here without it and I truly pity the people who don't have it when we have this kind of nasty weather. :P
I want to share some more pretty pictures here. First, I finished my block for the Measure For Measure project and want to document it here:
This block is about 12" square (a bit more, with the current raw edges). It will be finished into a page by the project coordinator, Suzanne Coley, who is the artist in residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C. Here are some closeups:
I deeply enjoyed working on this block. One of the reasons for all the photos is that it will not belong to me. When it is finished, it goes to the Folger for permanent display (along with all the other work that Suzanne gathers). I still have to write up my 'artist statement' and make a cushioning cover for the block.
Another project we are pursuing in Mimi's Grad Class is a group Baltimore album style quilt. I shared here before which block I had chosen and my fabrics:This is the front (right) side of the block, mostly. I have now applied deep red pieces inside each long oval 'slit' in this design. The middle will get cut out, too:
This shot shows the back (wrong) side of the block - the white bits are my pattern template. If you look carefully, you can see the inside lines where I will cut away the middle of my block.
I had been fiddling with and trying to baste the edges on this block for most of a month, without success. At our meeting this past Monday, Mimi gave me permission to fuse the edges of the design and hand embroider the resulting raw fabric edges to cover them and attach them permanently. I intend to ink the National Aquarium in Baltimore in the middle space as it is my favorite place in the city. :)
We did finish one group project for Grad Class recently:
We made a retirement quilt for Mimi. :) The block second-from-right in the third (central) row is the one I made. Two members of our group coordinated the project, collected the blocks and made the quilt. All within two months (from conception to presentation)!
Tomorrow I am hoping to sew some - I have to make a starter row for a round robin sew-along that is being run in Faithful Circle quilt guild. Got an inspiration at the Annapolis quilt show and ran with it. Might be a wild ride. :)
Linda
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