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We have been to a lot of parks over the years, including sports fields called parks, industrial parks, and what we consider real parks, although those, too have a wide range, from play grounds and maybe swimming pools to national parks that are more wilderness than accessible even with hiking boots and walking sticks and…
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We have to price art all of the time in the museum gift shop, everything from vintage prints to mounted puzzles to original paintings, the latter mostly by locally known or “unknown” artists, like my favorite barn painting only signed with “Betty”. There are some “formulas” and methods for deciding a price but ultimately the…
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June 1, 2024 Wyverns Trove Museum will be hosting Open Air Painting. Artists can register online, if they wish, at https://allevents.in/columbus/80001429217600 Or send a check or money order $15 to Wyverns Trove Inc, 254 W Mill St. Columbus WI 53925 Or call 920 350 5618 to sign up. Spaces are still open for views of…
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This one is a little closer to the flag concept. It requires thet the non-star backgrounds be the same size as the star blocks, essentially a 100 square quilt, half of which are stars. They could be blocks other than stars, fussy cut novelty fabrics, or a whole separate pattern interupted by the star blocks.…
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Like 250, 50 is not as easy as we would think to arrange in a nice quilt shape. Looking at the US flag, it looks easy, but the stars are small compared to the blue background, and not equally spaced for both the vertical and horizontal. So I have been working on some options. Here…
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For the US250 (American semiquincentennial, my shorthand) quilt layouts that include grids of squares, using simple blocks in place of some of the squares is an easy way to make your design interesting and unique. This provides just a few of the many options, to offer an idea of what sorts of blocks will work…
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Essentially, this one is just a math trick. 7×7 =49, x5=245, plus 5 more is 250. So, a grid of blocks, 7 blocks by 7 blocks gives you 49 squares. If every block has 5 pieces, you get 245 pieces. To make it 250, five of the blocks need one more piece each. The easiest…
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May 10 and 11, 2024 Columbus, WI will be hosting a city wide rummage sale, and Wyverns Trove Museum will be participating. We will be selling collectibles, rummage, plants, seeds, as well as our usual crafts, as one of the museum’s annual fundraisers and to clean house. We will take donations of odds snd ends…
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I think I already posted one very similar to this, mostly the same size square blocks with a bit of a difference in the center. There is also a variation below, dependant on increasing yhe size of the corner grids. If you don’t mind more rectangles, there is a relatively easy way to use them…
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Whether you get the predicted and much needed rain or not, April is an important time for gardening in Wisconsin. We are planting onions, carrots, spinach, and lettuce. We will plant more of the same in a couple of weeks or in late summer for a fall crop, some in the same place, some different.…
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This one is all squares, lots of sizes arranged in four quarters, two with 62 squares and two with 63. Lots of sizes! Assemble each quarter from the outer corner inward, like a quarter square log cabin. The numbers on the outside of the quilt layout are intended to help make the size of each…
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This one is very similar to a previous 250 squares and blocks quilt layout I posted, but, with fewer of the midsized 3″ or 4 1/2″ squares and fewer rectangles but more of the smallest squares. It is relatively easy to trade out the locations of 4 smallest patches with single blocks of the next…
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It sounded really odd when I first heard the phrase “living garden” – what garden isn’t alive? But the phrase refers to gardens with more than plants living within them, including insects, birds, and other (desireable) wildlife. It may not be for everybody. Bee allergies can be frightening, birds may be an annoyance to some…
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Artists are invited to join us at Wyverns Trove Museum and Gift Shop in Columbus Wisconsin on June 1st to paint or draw in a beautiful setting of gardens and historic buildings. Lunch,, beverages, snacks, reserved space, and an opportunity to sell your landscape art to visitors are all included in the $15 fee. In…
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Attached is a sheet with several simple rectangle blocks, especially useful for the larger rectangles (larger than 2″ finished in the smallest direction). For the curve patterns, recommend several practice blocks until you are comfortable with the seam allowance and sewing on a curve if you want to piece them. Or you can have a…
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This version of the 250 squares and Rectangles (250 of them, in honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the USA), is definitely for those who like blocks, as most of the squares are a full 6″ (or 9″). It is very amenable to being a group project, as such. Since most are divided by…
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This and the variations below were among the first I designed but I convinced myself for a bit that the count was wrong. In the picture, and in my mind, it was based on four grids, 6×6 squares to make 36, then a different size or arrangement to form the plus sign between them, but…
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This quilt layout includes rectangles as well as squares throughout. The squares are in rows or columns tether than grids so amenable to 4-patch blocks but not 9-patch. On the other hand, there are several 6×6 or 9×9 squares that can readily be replaced by more complex blocks, as well as the 10×10 or 15×15…
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Friday May 3, 2024, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday, May 4 10 am. To 4 pm at Wyverns Trove Museum and Gift Shop Join us to welcome spring with flowers! Displays and Gifts will focus on flowers, plants, seeds, and gardening just in time for Mothers Day gift shopping. We will have special…
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Squares in the 250 square quilts layouts can be replaced by simple blocks. Including half square triangles, bow ties, snow balls, square in a square, floating squares, floating rectangles (twirls), and string. These squares shoul all have instructions readily available in books or online but I will try to provide links to free instructions else…
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