What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Quilting
Leftovers from the light green back of my Wheel quilt make the center string on these blocks. The other strings are the "dark" ones from my scrap bag. I used many of the paler ones on the baby word quilts.
But the green and yellow string conflicts with the center...
So I took it out by sewing over that seam, cutting the offending string away, then reattaching the outer strings. Writing these steps makes it sound difficult but it was quite easy. There are no seams to match; it just needs sufficient seam allowance.
Now there are some greens {but they are darker} and some strings with close values {but they are mostly blue.}
This is what I finished this week.The four center blocks are squares but the others are rectangular. I have an idea from an online talk by Sarah Nishiura.
Let's see how it goes.
Reading
I enjoyed Motherland so much that I looked for Leah's first book, America for Beginners. We meet Pival in Kolkata shortly after the death of her husband. She booked a sightseeing trip to America with a touring agency pretending to be run by Indians but actually owned by a Bangladeshi. And Pival doesn't want to sightsee. She's traveling to find her son, Rahi, who may or may not be dead. Leah looks at family, immigration, and prejudice as each character chases their own American Dream.
