Happy Halloween! We're ready for tonight's trick or treaters. My Guy and Kiddo spent last evening carving pumpkins. I think they've been watching too much of "Halloween Wars" on the Food Network. This year we will have a vampire and a mummy greating the trick or treaters tonight. (I was initially alarmed when My Guy popped into my sewing room and asked if we had a roll of gauze bandages anywhere in the house.)
This Halloween is a bit sad for me., Kiddo will not be out pounding the pavement in search of candy this year for the first time since she was 2. At 12, she could probably squeeze out one more year, but at 5' 2" Kiddo looks a lot older than she is. There is a costume party on her schedule tonight, so she's not terribly bummed.
Since it is Monday, it's time to show what's up on the design wall. I got the Flurry binding sewn yesterday, but that's laying on the cutting table, not up on the design wall. That's my only "new" project this week. I've made some progress on the Geisha blocks.
Only 11 more blocks to frame before I can start working on the sashing, so I'm more than half way there.
That's it for me this week. Check out more Halloween eye candy over at Judy's Patchwork Times.
Can you believe that it is the last weekend in October? Our morning temperatures have dipped into the below freezing range, though it's still nice in the afternoon. It's definitely fall.
With the cooler temps you'd think there would be more going on in the sewing room. Unfortunately I think less went on this week than last week. Definitely less fabric getting used.
Used this week: 0.53 yards
Added this week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 48.67 yards
Added year to date: 60.25 yards
Net stashed for 2011: 11.58 yards
There have been no additions to the stash for the last 10 weeks, so that's working in my favor. Unfortunately that's going to change this next week. I don't have enough of any fabric to put borders on the purple/yellow scrap quilt, so I'm going to need to order a few yards of a dark and a light purple so I can finish that project. On the bright side that fabric will come in, then go right back out.
That's it for me this week. Check out Patchwork Times for more tales of the stash.
It's time again for the Blogger's Quilt Festival so graciously sponsored by Amy's Creative Side. I'm a little late getting my entry posted this year due to photography problems. This quilt was completed last week and has been dubbed "Texas Twilight" by My Guy.
This quilt has made previous appearances on my blog while it was under construction as the Buck-A-Block quilt. The light background blocks are made from Thangles Buck-A-Block #2 designed by Mary B. Hayes. The black and dark blue setting was self designed. These blocks were offered as a BOM by the local quilt shop when we lived in Texas back in 2006. I didn't actually start working on the blocks until about mid year last year.
This quilt was supposed to have green sashing with a blue bonnet print as the border. But that proposed setting would not gel with the blocks. I ended up going in a completely different direction. The dark fabric in the Thangles blocks is actually bluebonnets on a black background, hence the black. The blue is a good match to the blue dots in the light background fabric. I like the finished quilt even though looks nothing like the original plan. Sometimes the blocks just have other ideas than you do.
Trudy Lindemann did the quilting. She used diagonal lines in the blue setting triangles and wide borders. In the narrow blue border she did a modified feather motif and then loops in the pieced blocks. It turned out beautifully.
Grab a cup of coffee (or tea) and hop over to Amy's to check out all the wonderful quilts posted as part of this fall's show.
It's Saturday! Finally. It always seems like the week you are back at work after taking vacation is unusually long. At least it works that way for me.
The previous two weeks, Barbara's Foto Finish themes have been a challenge. This week I was pretty sure there would be something in my files that would work. To be honest, I had too many shots that would work. Finally I asked My Guy to make the call. He narrowed it down to two and I finally picked this one because we both agreed it fit the theme best.
I like the colored tops of all the markers. I'm not sure why it is, but there is something appealing about a brand new box of colored makers, pencils, or crayons. I can't draw to save my life, but I still love the idea of a new box of color. These are actually scrapbooking markers that I bought for one of Kiddo's projects. Now they reside in the sewing room and I use them to color my hand written piecing instructions when color placement is important.
Circle around to Cat Patches to see more round somethings.
It's not quite Friday in my corner of the world, but it's close. Maybe by writing my Favorite Thing Friday thing post I'll get a good jump going into the weekend. After a day spent in meetings, I most definitely need some powerful positive thinking!
Last week was Fall Break for Kiddo. She had 3 days out of school. We had great plans for the long weekend, but after a mix up with the volleyball schedule, an unexpected business trip for me and an out of nowhere assignment for My Guy, we weren't sure there would be any plans. However, we did manage to cobble together a short family trip where we:
Looked at big rocks
Climbed into the big rocks
Checked out one of Jesse James' hideouts.
And photographed the fall foliage.
So the rocky start to Fall Break ended up being a rocky end too. But in the end we all had a great time.
That's it for my favorite thing this week. Check out all the other Friday favorites over at Shay's Quilting in My Pyjamas.
