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Monday, September 15, 2025

Design Wall Monday - September 15, 2025

Good Morning!

The weather here in Michigan has been spectacular this week, and I confess I’ve been doing anything but quilting lately.

I have only very small progress to report to you - two square within a square borders of four are sewn onto the medallian quilt.  




What occupied my time?  Prayer and reflection on how I can be a better mirror of God’s love to the people I know.  I am resolved to honor an assassinated Christian, Charlie Kirk, by speaking more boldly about my faith.  At only 31 years old, he has made such an impact for good on young people, and lots of us older people too.  I love God with all my heart and I vow to try to live God’s love to others.  I want only the best for all I interact with.

Thank you for your kindness to me within this blog and know that I appreciate all of you.  

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Monday, September 8, 2025

Good morning quilters!

Here are the final two borders, bottom and left side, added to the design wall, with the completed top border and right border.  I have 8 blocks and a corner kite to complete for each of these final two borders.  I am taking a little break from this project to work on another UFO this week.  I will try to get at least two triangles made though.


My medallion UFO is on the floor (my extra design wall) with all the “square within a square” blocks for the next round. This week I hope to sew them all together, and add them to all four sides of the center.   They are just laid out on one side right now, and the rest in a pile beside the center.  

Here’s a picture:



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Monday, September 1, 2025

Design Wall Monday - September 1, 2025

Good Morning Quilters!  Happy Labor Day too!

We are not doing anything special for Labor Day, just our usual Monday activities.  

We went to the first Michigan State football game Friday night.  And it was a beautiful night, even if I am not fond of night games.  It is our 60th year of going to football games together.  Here’s a pregame picture of us in front of Beaumont Tower on campus.  



One of our granddaughters is a baton twirler for Texas Tech, and their first game was Saturday night.  The band had a special halftime show planned, celebrating 100 years of the band’s existence.  The alumni band members present (about 900 to be on the field and another 300 in the stands) planned to join the current band of 440 student musicians for an unbelievable halftime show.   Well, rain came down during the first half, lightening too, and the game stopped and the stadium was emptied.  When the rain stopped, the game started up again, and due to the time lost, they announced that the halftime show was cancelled.  I’m sure it was a tough call by the person who had to make that decision.  

One alumni posted this on the internet:  

      “ Such an amazing day! As an alum it was a dream come true to practice and learn a show with the current band. Bummed we didn’t get to do halftime but we made the best of it with an impromptu concert while waiting for the weather to give. As always, I am so proud to be a Red Raider and most proud of the Goin Band members past and present.”

 I’m sure our Granddaughter was also disappointed, but she is such a positive young lady that she too will look at the good in every situation.  

This past week’s triangle production was pretty good.  I have two more to make to complete the right side border of thirteen triangles.  My Jane Stickle borders on the design wall look like this right now:


Paper piecing still confuses me, but I am soldiering on.  Several times I think I have the fabric in the right place, and find out that I don’t.  Or I have it in the right place, but it is a shirting fabric when I was wanting an indigo fabric……or vise versa.  I hope to finish the right side border this week, and put the bottom border up on the design wall.  

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