Well I'll be...

....notice the leaves aren't even done changing colors....

Yesterday, Meghan saw a flock of turkey's walking up our neighbors driveway.

I took this picture from the front door.

Here's the same shot today. (just a little wider one)

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I've quilted the Quilts for Kids tops-no pictures yet will take when their bound.

I've quilted for others too.

Libby's

and today if I can get my butt in gear I'm going to sew the binding on the Christmas sampler quilt. It's been sitting on the back of a chair waiting patiently for weeks now....

I do have the most patient quilts.

 *wink*

Libby and I had a little quilt shop retail fun on Thursday. 

 I was bad.  

I read this post and fell in love.  And then forgot about it.  Until I saw 

this book...the only copy...I flipped through it, my heart still did a little skip when I got to the St Nick quilt....I put it down, I shopped around....I came back...flipped through it again.  I looked around,, no quilting police to be seen (to arrest me for even THINKING about starting another project). 

 I brought it home. 

 I shopped my stash, which is sadly lacking in plaids.

 I will be needing to go here real soon.  I've been wanting to take a little trip to visit Farmhouse Fabrics for a while, this is a good excuse reason too.

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I'm still hobbling  more of a limp but not as bad.

 I will survive. 

And probably be able to predict future weather events, perhaps even like an inch or so of snow on October 29th --who knows. It will add to my character for sure!  

fun times, fun times...Life is Good.

PS:  I get a kick out of little things, like just now I hit the spell check button, scanned this post and lo and behold not a yellow highlighted word to be found.

I am the queen of the misspelled word; rare is the post without at least 3-4 mistakes.

Yep, it's the little things.

Family Weekend

This past weekend hubby and I went to visit Paul.

 It was family weekend at The Mount.

We had a wonderful time, good food, inspired worship, lovely fall views of the mountains, getting to meet and talk with other parents, seminarians and faculty.

 I can show no pictures because I forgot to take my camera.  

I will blame my forgetting on the fact that while I was getting ready to leave on Friday morning-going back and forth from the bathroom to our bedroom to pack the items I was done with...make up etc. I went too fast, miscalculating where the bedroom door was (heh-heh) and walking into the door jamb and in cartoonishly slow fashion fell through the door way.  

I really only hurt my little baby toe, which got hooked somehow.  

It is broken.  

It hurt like heck hell. 

 It is a lovely Halloween purple-y color. 

(how seasonal of me-no?)

Hoping to be able to hobble along and get some quilting done today.

fun times, fun times. Life is Good!

It's a flimsy!

Strings & Stars (70x70)

Otis was happy to help hold that pesky red star in place while I took the picture.

He's trying to get on my good side again over the fact that after having a bath yesterday and looking quite handsome, he lost his mind this morning and rolled in something quite delightful  awful and had to have another bath.
 He feels terrible about this weakness of his.

He should.

Design Wall Monday

My strings and stars top has the inner border on now.  I just chose a fabric from my 2.5 inch drawer and used that. And the 3 outer string borders I already had made are on too!  I need to piece the rest of the 4th string border and this will be a flimsy.

After looking at the 'leftovers' quilt for Kids blocks I had up in a previous post, I decided there was too much going on. 

So I pulled out the red blocks and a few others and cut the blue batik for the solid blocks and now I can get 2 more Quilts for Kids from the leftover blocks-much better use of my fabric and much nicer to look at.

This is looking like a really busy week (again).  I had way too many 'irons in the fire' so last week and this week will be more of getting that under control before my head spins off.

So I only need to hand sew the binding on these three:

Sorry about the glare.

The binding is done on the Corn Toss runner, last night at 11pm- tonight is guild so just got that finished.

I have a lot of quilting to do-it's the time of year.  

I am so thrilled with this.  

I want these shoes~!!!

Check out other design walls here.

I'm here

slaving away  having a good time!

What a crazy busy week, appointments, lunch out with my sister, sewing.

Two days of deconstruction renovation.  They got more wiring done and now I have light switches where I need them! yeah! They made a lot of noise  and now my laundry tubs are moved and the drain is moved and I have more room in what used to be a laundry room.  But it's not a room now as they took the walls down too. Whew!  It looks pretty bad- noooo pictures! 

I spent a long time cleaning (again) after they left.  I cover everything with plastic that I can't move out but it's still a dusty mess.  I've probably cleaned the basement more times in the last 3-4 months than I have in all the years we've lived here.   ewwww, maybe I shouldn't reveal so much about me.

We went to the Penguins home opener! So much fun, but dang Paul and I yawn a lot in between rooting them on!  

I'm still working on piecing Quilts for Kids.  The leftover one is #9 for the year + the 2 NI CU one's I donated earlier this year makes 11.  I had set a goal of 1/month so I'm a little ahead. 

Wow that's different.

this one is with all the leftover blocks from the others!

I finished the baby quilt for my friend's daughter.  She had her baby girl yesterday! whew!

I wasn't able to attend the "newbies" class for guild last week as oldest son came home for fall break and visited!  (I thought he was staying at school) So it was a nice surprise.  

In the class, we were making this little runner.  I made it last night (late-apparently I can no longer drink decaf coffee in the evening; even the shot of Bailey's Irish creme( 'yum') in it didn't have any affect.  I have the binding pinned going to try to do that tonight.  

Would you believe that's the 1st time I used prairie points?  Easy peasy!

I quilted Witchy-poo and the 2 new little jacks quilts.  Witchy-poo is destined to be a pillow and the 2 little jacks I want to put those corner thingy's on the back for hanging-like you're suppose to do for AAQI quilts. I'm definitely gearing up to make one or 2 of those in the future. I think the technique is cool-for the little triangle/hanger.
EDIT: The correct term is "Fast Finish Triangles" .  

I'm also about 1/2 way finished with the blanket stitching on The Witch is In,  

I can not wait to get this on my front door.  

2nd edit:  The blanket stitching is done! woo-hoo!

Oh Strings & Stars is STILL on the design wall!  The center is sewn together I really need to take an hour add an inner border and the 2 side star borders and then I'll be able to see how much more I need to add to it....just an hour....or two.

My to do list is crazy long and I'm not starting another thing until it's caught up.  

Winner!

So I did the number generator thingy.  I was scared but it was easy.

It picked #2

That's Darlene from Quilting Daze.

Congratulations!

Thanks to all who entered. 

If at first you don't succeed...

...go out to lunch with a friend and her little granddaughter, visit a quilt shop.  

And then you will be ready to tackle

"the witch".

The background is way more orange than this washed out picture, same with the outer border. 

She's a little wonky, but then again she is a witch. 

"Fixing" her wasn't as difficult as I thought.  But then I was doing regular block unsewing and re-sewing not paper piecing-much more in my comfort zone.  

I almost want to make another one......ahhhahahahaa! 

Meghan and Paul wanted to know what I was going to do with it-make a pillow?  I said I thought a little wall hanging and got some static, good nature d of course but still,  about 'another wall hanging'.  

sigh. (they're right) 

 I think I will make it into a pillow.

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I finished hand sewing the binding and label on Irene this afternoon.  I actually thought it was already done, oops!

I love the sun light on it.