June Flowers

 There's a street near me that has a field growing pretty wild.  In the spring, it's full of wild flowers.  Yesterday I picked 14 flowers, all a different species.  

I can't identify all of the flowers, but there is Horsemint, Basket Flower, Indian Blanket, Coreopsis, Gaura, Prarie Verbena, Trompillo, Sunflower, and Fluttermill.

Guild Birthday Party and Linus Reveal

Our local guild celebrated its 12th birthday this year. The celebration combined socializing, games, food, and a showing of the Linus Challenge wherein members took identical panels and made quilts.

The quilt on the left is mine and shows the full panel in the center.   The next quilt is comprised of the panel which has been sliced vertically and had purple inserted.   The third was the one which won the most votes - some of the leaves from the panel were used whole and more of them make up the birds.

The meeting was very well attended  - probably 50 to 60 members and a few guests.  Sixteen quilts were displayed.

We also played a few games and had a flip-flop contest - our theme was "escape to the beach"

Duckworth bordered panel quilt

 My local guild passed out preprinted panels to anyone willing to make a quilt for the Linus connection out of it.

I took one and pulled fabrics from my stash to make 4.5" Modified log cabin blocks to use as a border.

Because of the panel proportions, I also pieced two coping strips to add to the panel before adding the border.

Because this quilt turned out so well, I arranged with the challenge coordinators to give it to a 90yo friend of mine - a former quilter who has given away all her quilts and and has become bedridden.

As a part of the arrangement, I agreed to take two more panels to finish and donate to Linus.  One is done but the other is still on the design wall.

I've posted this picture in a Facebook group and received over 400 Likes and 60 comments.