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.
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