RSC25: February - blue

RSC25: February - blue

The blue Disappearing 9-patch blocks came together into a nice bright interesting top!  It's actually larger than I expected, about 65" x 65".  It will be waiting in the To-Be-Quilted basket until I need a donation quilt.

Linking to SCRAPHAPPY SATURDAY

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Belligerent: aggressively hostile; given to waging war; of warlike character; bellicose

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This week's embroidery

I'm keeping myself occupied with some honeycomb background stitch.  I'm a member of a couple of online embroidery groups, and one of them is offering a monthly challenge -- which includes specific colors, several stitches, and particular embellishments.  February's honeycomb stitch was a new one for me, and it's actually going well.  I have an idea simmering in the back of my mind for a little framed hanging piece.

We're now a month into this national horror spectacle, and every day -- every few hours -- more appalling news is released.  The United States is now officially in alliance WITH Putin AGAINST Europe.  It's not a sustainable situation.  The vocabulary words are my own, a way for me to express my outrage with more specificity.  I currently have more than a year's worth of words on my list. I'm going to need a lot more embroidery and a lot more words I'm afraid. Sigh.

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Bellicose: inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile

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Wednesday

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Beholden: under obligation; owing a debt; bound

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"Not My President Day" Observance!

Protests took place all across the nation yesterday for Not My President Day.  We were out at Long Beach City Hall with many many others.  I never dreamed I'd be this person at this time in my life, and yet here we are.

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Base: morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable; meanspirited; selfish; cowardly; worthless; characteristic of or befitting an inferior person or thing

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Rock Hounds

Lorenzo is an avid rock collector, and for his birthday party yesterday Dave actually built a gold panning sluice with recirculating water pump out in their yard so the kids could 'excavate' gems and fossils and arrowheads.  A wonderful success, complete with a geode birthday cake!!

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Bad: not good in any manner or degree; having a wicked or evil character; morally reprehensible; inadequate; not satisfactory; injurious;  having a disastrous or detrimental effect; causing or characterized by discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; irritable or surly; more dangerous than usual; causing or resulting in disaster or severe damage or destruction; disobedient; disreputable; dishonorable; displaying a lack of skill or judgement; causing distress; unfavorable; dangerous; not keeping with standard of behavior or conduct; obscene; having the character of a villain

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Sunday

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Awful: extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly: inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible: extremely dangerous or injurious 

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RSC25: February - blue

RSC25: February - blue

I pieced my monthly quota of Disappearing Rails blocks this week. This gives me 10 of the targeted 35 blocks, so this project is progressing. 

And again used the leftover 2 1/2" bits to make small corner units.  I'll need a couple billion more of these to make an entire quilt.

Linking to SCRAPHAPPY SATURDAY

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Avaricious: characterized by greed; rapacious; desiring to possess more of something than one already has or might in normal circumstances be entitled to 

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