Autumn in the Air

 As slow as the year has been, it seems hard to believe that we are now into autumn.  It will be an autumn and winter like no other that we have seen, but how can one not look around and breathe in the luscious colors and scents of autumn?  This is "my" season!  I don't know if many of you remember having your "colors done".  It was a big thing back then, but I turned out to be an autumn.  My wardrobe changed and I dove into autumn colors.  I still enjoy the rich colors of reds, golds, greens and browns, but do not look forward to the winter months ahead.  

Each year Carole, who blogs at From My Carolina Home, has an Autumn Jubilee where she shares many different ideas - quilting, tablescapes and greeting cards, to name a few.  I joined in on her QAL this year and have managed to keep up with the schedule.  You can find the patterns on her blog.  These are our rows so far. I misread the sashing size in that bottom row, but it is fixed and is the same length of the others now.  

We managed an escape for a fall road trip.  We put 4.600+ miles on the odometer and had an amazing time.  This was really a National Parks tour.  We visited Zion, Bryce, Capital Reef, Moab, Badlands, Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks on our journey.  With our senior pass, they practically paid us to visit them!!!  lol  We made it as far as Kansas City and took three granddaughters out for dinner and visited their college campus.  

While in the Tetons, I managed to grab a photo of my finished Memoirs quilt.  This was a kit from Moda by Three Sisters and I loved the colors of it.  

There has been LOTS of mask making going on here.  I admired Ramona's Snoopy mask and she generously sent me her leftover fabric.  I was able to make two masks from it!  One was shipped off to my dear friend in England who loves the Peanuts characters.  I've had lots of requests for special masks as well.

Has this series been exciting or what????

Masks for granddaughter's senior business project

Day of the Dead masks

Lisa (no blog) was our queen bee for this month and these were her block requests.  I'm looking forward to seeing this Betsy Ross quilt come together.

As a leader ender project, I have been working on some tulips, a Bonnie Hunter design.  My bouquet is growing!

Today my challenge is making a saint costume for the Halloween saint program at the grand's school on Friday.  Enjoy your fall!

August 2020

Before August slips away, I should get a blog post in the record book.  The month has really gone quickly, although I don't have a lot to show for it.

The granddaughters and I enjoyed an extended summer of sewing and sharing our baking skills with each other.  They all left last weekend for their respective colleges.  I told them that I would need the next six months to sort out my sewing studio again.  lol

Our Gridster Bee block for this month was Room for Squares from Zen Chic.  It was a free paper pieced download. I just love Linda's color choices and you can check out what all the blocks look like together by visiting her on Instagram @quiltlady63.  These were my four blocks.  She requested that we not sew them together so she could mixt them up. 

Our tortoise eggs were busily hatching this month too.  These never cease to amaze me.  They have all gone to their adoptive homes.  

Although I haven't managed to do a lot of sewing this month, I did start putting some blocks together from a kit that has been sitting in my sewing room.  I really like these Moda fabrics and I am enjoying the blocks.  

The days are definitely getting shorter and I've noticed leaves changing colors and dropping.  It must be the colder temps we had a few weeks ago.  However, this week our summer finally arrived with higher temps and fires.  I do not know how the firefighters can battle the fires in such scorching temperatures.  They do a heroic job!

There is always a way to stay cool.....