Iceblossom

Ugh a mug! Seattle is in a heat wave. 100 outside the house, 87 inside with no AC and careful timing of opening/closing windows and fans.

I think this will be presentation to our group hostess this week. In the good news/bad news sort of things, we've all had shots but were still meeting outside because she was keeping the house to extreme standards. With Brian in his new residence, we will be able to come inside and she does have AC. Bittersweet.

I have been doing a lot of fabric looking and wanting but am holding firm (so far anyway!) on not buying -- except I do need and will use that back for Aunt Debbie's quilt. I've been pulling out some of my own blues (in addition to the UM fabrics) for the fan blades, need to pull some yellows next and cut them. Once cut, they go together fast. I'm using the same John Flynn template + Eleanor Burns rickrack technique I used in my Turkey Fan quilt -- so all have a yellow background, a paisley pie piece with white rickrack and then will have the fan blades... you just basically applique on the pie and fan pieces on top of the base square.