And Yet More Fall Colour

More Fall Colour

Fall Colour

Some of the first of the fall colour. Unfortunately the leaves have begun to turn, but I am still focusing on flowers.

Summer II

Again I fell into my bad habit of working but not posting. I've been so busy I've hardly even taken photos.

But finally here is one of my recently finished quilts.



There is another one on the way shortly and I just finished pinning a quilt sandwich that I am about to carry it off the sewing machine, so there should be another one before too long.

Firey Squares

These blocks started out as a test run for the guild's October Challenge, but for that it is a bust. The full square circuit of one colour does not achieve my assigned goal. At first I was very upset. I probably still should be, as I have no idea how I am going to meet the deadline, but I have decided I like the hot firey colours. I have 10 of the small log cabin blocks completed and plenty of fabric to make two more, so I will have four of these, about 10 inch, blocks.



I am not sure how to set these blocks. I don't have the fabric to make a large quilt (or the time really), but I don't think these four blocks side by side (making a large square) will do. It would be a bit small(or large), plus I think matching up the medium red side by side, seems to take away some of the firey impact. I am thinking about turning them a little on their sides by adding a narrow triangular border -- probably in a blue -- around the red squares. But so far I have only reached the thinking stage.

Summer II

I found this green fabric and knew it was the perfect summer green, a bit browned by the heat of the sun. And then I realized I was meant to be making Spring. Sigh... So Summer II is going to be completed before Spring I. (But I got an idea during my knitting group this evening.)

Pinks and Chartreuse Stars

Now all four borders are on. I even got the quilt top pinned to the batting and the dark grey backing after the photo was taken.

Now I have three and a half quilt sandwiches pinned together (the half is mostly quilted but still partially pinned), but now I am out of pins. I don't even have a couple of pins to do a mug rug or a potholder, so I guess it is time to get on with some quilting.

Working Bees

The bees seem to really enjoy the sunflowers

Pinks and Chartreuse

This quilt has given me a great deal of trouble.

I think I started it, during the period of my worst vision before the first of my cataract surgeries, and then I only worked on it a little in a very slipshod sort of manner between the two surgeries. The angles for the stars are not standard. I had to make my own template, which I could not see very well and then I got the math and almost every measurement wrong in almost every way possible. Given all that I am pretty pleased I got to this point.

I took a break, here after sewing the border on two sides so that I could think about what I was going to do about the corners. Since I had pretty much decided I want to use the grey fabric with the pinks and chartreuse for the binding, I wanted to make sure the corners would work with that. Now that I have taken the picture, I think I have a solution. The corners will be dark grey and pink.