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Newbery Reading Challenge 2015 wrap-up

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2015 Newbery Reading Challenge

Newbery Reading Challenge 2015

I completed my challenge goal of the L’Engle level: 15-29 points by getting 17 points. Thanks to Julie of Smiling Shelves for hosting this challenge. Although I only read one winner for my perpetual challenge, a trip to Laura country this year inspired me to take up some of her books and fall in love with that series all over again. The others that I read were very good, so it was a good Newbery year for me. [Read more…] about Newbery Reading Challenge 2015 wrap-up

2015 Monthly Motif & Key Word wrap-up

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2015 Monthly Motif Challenge and Monthly Key Word Challenge

I did the Monthly Key Words in 2013 and the Monthly Motif in 2014 and have found it fun, so this year I went wild & crazy and did both. Thanks to Bookmark to Blog for hosting. I managed to complete both challenges this year and here are my books.

2015 Monthly Motif Challenge

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Mount TBR 2015 wrap-up

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Mount TBR 2015

Mount TBR Reading Challenge 2015

Bev at My Reader’s Block hosts this challenge that encourages us to read our own books. This was my fifth year for this challenge and once again I made my goal of  Mt. Ararat and 48 books. There’s still a month left but all the library books I had on hold forever just came in and even though I will get a few more of my own read this month, I won’t make another mountain so I’m calling the challenge. Here’s what I read and moved off my shelves, most of them given away but a few saved on my “Keep to Re-read Shelf”.

1. Poison Study, Maria V. Snyder
2. Magic Study, Maria V. Snyder
3. Fire Study, Maria V. Snyder
4. Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler
5. The Return of Captain John Emmett, Elizabeth Speller [Read more…] about Mount TBR 2015 wrap-up

More reading challenges for 2016

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Royal Challenge 2016 

She’s Got Books on her Mind hosted the Reading Road Trip Challenge 2015 and it was fun to play along with her so I decided to join her upcoming challenge which is to read books with a royal theme: books that center around anyone with a royal title, knights, castles, kingdoms, or heroic quests. I am signing up for Earl or Countess: 7-9 books.

Levels:
Knight: 1-3 books
Baron or Baroness: 4-6 books
Earl or Countess: 7-9 books
Duke or Duchess: 10-12 books
Prince or Princess: 13-15 books
King or Queen: 15+ books [Read more…] about More reading challenges for 2016

America the Beautiful-fields & trees

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We made the deciduous tree blocks at our previous session and they went together quite easily. We can sew things up quickly when we already have the blocks all cut out in kits. Because this quilt is showing more of our individualism, our three block units have variations from each other. They are placed in three different spots in the quilt so we decided to have seasons and make a spring, summer, and fall tree unit. Terry found the tulip fabric in her stash and she and I used that for our spring background, but ShaRee wanted to be consistent with her cream backgrounds. Our summer units are different, but we all agreed on that cute fall fabric.

ShaRee
ShaRee
Sue
Sue
Terry
Terry

Since everything went so quickly, we decided to begin the Fields Block. We started laying them all out and realized that we had cut greens and a few golds like the pattern suggested, but we all felt the row needed some brown. We decided to bring browns the next week, cut up a few squares, sew up the block and work on our 1930’s quilt as usual. We alternate weeks on the two projects. But those easy squares and triangles ended up taking us two hours to finish! We are nothing if not flexible, so we cut out the next two 1930’s blocks for future sewing and planned our next move on this quilt. Here are our Fields from top to bottom: ShaRee, Sue, and Terry. This block runs along the bottom of the quilt and is the width of the quilt.

All Fields block