its fall y'all

 Finally some cooler weather even if it comes with drizzle or showers or clouds. I'll take it.

I decided to take a workshop at the local Bernina Store to make a jacket.  I have not sewed

clothing in a long while.  Got to the workshop an hour and a half late but caught up and am ready to go today to finish.  Hope it fits.

This is not the jacket.  My pictures don't always come on in the right order.  This is Dexter and he is waiting for Sunday when he will be blessed for the third year in a row.  Hope it takes this time!!!

This is my new project.  It was different.  Putting strips together to make the fabric so I 

could cut out the pattern pieces plus batting and lining.

We will do pockets and put pieces together today and binding which I made.  

I had planned to take my featherweight sewing machine again but it decided to be 

unhappy with the stitching so they are letting me borrow a machine.  I will have to wait for 

next thursday when P and C come to see if they can heal my featherweight.  I even orgered this bag to carry my little machine because the box I have weighs just about as much as the machine.  Love the bag.  It has lots of little pockets.

Nephew L had a great flounder season with his charter business "Spot On Charters" and  finished with the last day on the rough water with his brother and father.  Caught fish so we are all having fish tonight at L and J's house.  Hope I can take Dexter.

Cooler quilting.

Fall is near

September has been hot until this morning.  Boy what wonderful cool air.  When Dexter and I went out this morning at 5:30am the sky was full of bright stars.  It is the first time since last winter I have been able to see so many of the constellations. I saw Taurus, the Seven Sisters, Casseopia, the big dipper and of course Orion.

Yesterday was a bit busy with hair appointment, picking up family from the airport, letting out dogs, and canning 8 quarts of sweet bread and butter pickles. It was good to be tired and glad to have brother and wife home.

Like this new scrappy book "Scrap-basket Knockouts" by Kim Brackett and am on the second pattern from it. 

This is the first pattern I decided to make. It is called" Three Patch." I just love how many different blocks you can make with squares and rectangles. I liked making light and dark blocks and how the design comes alive when it is together.

This is a simple but eye-catching little quilt for my great-niece? 

This is a quilt I made 10 years ago that the quilting was off and it was too small.  So I made one large enough to cover the pillows on my queen bed.  It is really large and I just finished getting the binding on by hand.

This is the second pattern I wanted to make.  It is called "Knots and Chains" but this is the alternate lay out. Again with squares and rectangles and light and dark blocks to make the contrasting patterns.

These blocks are easy to make but a lot of seams join and sloppy sewing will make you scream and unsew to make it fit.  Just sayin'.

This is the body of "Points and Peaks" by Kaye England.  I love bold colors and they don't come any bolder than Kaffe, my hero. It took a lot of sewing and unsewing to get the rectangle/triangle unit right so I would not cut off the points when I put the blocks together.  I did put a small white inner border and then a pieced outer border.  P gave me the perfect design for the corner block.

This is my Dexter after his hair cut by a mobile groomer.. So Precious on last Bonnie Hunter mystery quilt that I tackled.

This is the border for Points and Peaks. Now for the binding.

Have to get back to it.  

Cool quilting for today.