There was enough to create yesterday amongst Mike abode from work, but at that spot was equally good enough of fourth dimension for sewing. First on my listing of priorities was to complete upward the Bag Ladies flimsy, and...Ta-Da!
The erstwhile gals turned out okay. This is my OMG for October, in addition to don't you lot mean value I'm feeling pret-ty smug at having it finished earlier the goal-setting linky has fifty-fifty closed.
Of course, I'll hold upward linking upward at the terminate of the month.
After that, nosotros had vino shipments to choice upward from 2 wineries. It was a dreary, rainy day. I'm afraid the days of sunshine are coming to an terminate soon, in addition to the murky lurker volition hold upward hither for good. Despite the rainy weather, nosotros saw a few blooming things at the wineries.
The Photo-A-Day prompt was "red" in addition to therefore I was taking pictures of cherry things...these pretty rosehips, for example.
These were some cutting dahlias inwards a vase at i of the tasting rooms.
But this is the i I ended upward posting...
Red, cherry wine, remain some me
Don't permit me hold upward alone
It's violent apart
My blue, bluish heart
When nosotros got home, at that spot was some fun stuff inwards the mail. With the Heart & Home blocks nearly finished, I'm already looking forrad to my side past times side slow-stitching project. I saw this pattern made upward into a quilt piece nosotros were traveling final year, in addition to I couldn't resist it.
I ordered it online piece nosotros were nonetheless traveling in addition to had it sent to Erik in addition to Mae's address. It was waiting for me when nosotros got abode final March. Here's only i of the barns for stitching.
My persuasion for this is to stitch it all inwards brown, but I'm going to purpose crayon to color the quilt blocks. Usually, I'm a DMC form of gal...I similar their floss only fine in addition to it comes it lots of colors. There was a DMC option for stitching this pattern, but the designer recommended this Valdani floss.
I've never worked with Valdani before, but I chip in addition to looked for it online. I only constitute i source for this color, but it was therefore pretty, I couldn't resist. It's a lilliputian difficult to encounter inwards this image, but it's a slightly variegated brown. That was inwards yesterday's mail, which caused me to larn everything out in addition to await at it again. Earlier inwards the week, I received the stuff I've chosen for the backgrounds. I'm hoping you lot tin encounter that this is an off-white stuff amongst only the slightest hint of a design. I've messed amongst the contrast in addition to lighting to convey out the pattern. It's barely visible inwards person.
Then there's this panel that was a gift from my friend Sharon of Vroomans Quilts. Sharon knows I'm a sucker for barns, in addition to she gave me the panel when nosotros visited her a twelvemonth ago.
And in addition to therefore there's this i I picked upward when nosotros visited One Quilt Place inwards Fredericksburg, Texas, final spring. The lilliputian quilt blocks are almost 2-1/2 inches. I haven't actually persuasion through how I'm going to purpose the panel or these lilliputian quilt blocks, but somehow...somewhere...I'll larn inwards hap when the fourth dimension comes many moons from now.
And, well, don't you lot know that dreaming almost the offset of a novel projection gets me therefore excited I've practically got the vapors only thinking almost it.
So in addition to therefore I pose that all away in addition to got dorsum to my monthlies. There was nonetheless fourth dimension left inwards the solar daytime to start the nighttime green/sage blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Lo in addition to behold, it's Saturday...time to link up.
I'm only barely getting start on October, but I dug through my greenish bin inwards search of the darkest sage in addition to olive greens...Marine Corps drab, you lot mightiness say, inwards award of my father, a 32-year Marine Corps veteran.
That was equally far equally I got amongst the greens. I'll remove to cutting them into strips of diverse lengths. The dark in addition to white strips are already cutting for these blocks, in addition to therefore I started there. This was endlessly tiresome for Smitty.
He actually wanted me to larn exterior in addition to create something constructive amongst the weather.
By day's end, I had the dark in addition to white blocks pieced, trimmed, in addition to cutting on the diagonal.
Today I'll larn to go on the greenish fabrics and, hopefully, select the blocks finished past times day's end.
But first, I'm baking some biscotti. Erik's birthday is Tuesday. He in addition to Mae are coming upward for a birthday brunch of Eggs Benedict tomorrow morning. I select a yoke of lilliputian things for him, but I wanted to create something else inwards the agency of nutrient for tomorrow, in addition to therefore biscotti it is. We'll proceed a few pieces for ourselves in addition to and therefore shipping the residuum abode amongst them.
Okay, therefore how's your weather? It's looking equally if autumn has passed in addition to we're into the wintertime gloom at this end. Just yesterday Mike was proverb how he's happy to encounter the gloom return. My response: "Speak to me of this inwards January."