Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  This is my favorite holiday.  Big surprise.  I love the colors, the sense of silly and of course, the chocolate.

I have bunches of quilts that celebrate All Hallows Eve.  Some are traditional.

Some are cute.

I love the fabric.

And the decorations.

Which is why my logo looks like this.

Toby would definitely prefer to fly tonight as he's been limping since last night.  My guess is that he and Ella were roughhousing and he pulled something, so we'll get the word from the vet tomorrow. 


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I have decided to let it be fall.  I actually really like fall, but I hate to let go of summer.  In summer I can leave the door open and Toby & Ella can go in and out at will.  Please believe me when I tell you that they have a lot of will.  Now that it's really chilly outside, letting them in and out is actually a part time job.  Jingle bells hang on the back door so they can call me when they need to go out.  Sometimes they ring them just to see me come downstairs and see if they can get a treat.

The really cool part of fall is the color.  The trees here don't give as spectacular a show as the northeast and midwest.  However, we do have our moments.

Now that the nights are actually working their way down to cold, it's time to pick the last of the tomatoes.  The flavor of home grown tomatoes is a whole different thing from supermarket tomatoes.  And fried greens are always a big hit around here.  Yet what really speaks to me are the colors.

I'm not sure what I would do with a tomato quilt.  Not that this is an issue that's ever stopped me before.  Still, those orangey reds and bright greens and deep green stems are trying to tell me something. 

At least I know what he's trying to tell me - "I want to go out.  I want to come in. I want to gossip with my friends.  I want to lay over the threshold of an open door.  I don't think 40 is cold.  It's not my fault that you don't come with your own fur coat!"

Spend some time this week enjoying the season.

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Time or the Lack Thereof

In the last three weeks life has just whipped by.  Family wedding (beautiful), house guests (fun) and selling for two days at a quilt show (and all the preparation) have just filled up the time.  And I do have to sleep, eat, and occasionally drop in at my day job. When I get desperate, I throw a load in the washer.  Ironing?  Surely you jest.

Yesterday I was coming home from a haircut, a drive that would normally take about 25 minutes.  This trip took over an hour.  As I was ripping down the freeway at an exciting 20 miles per hour and wondering what the heck all these other people were doing on the road at 3:30 in the afternoon, I couldn't help but whine to myself about all the wonderful quilting I could be doing instead of crawling down the interstate.  In my own mind (and make no mistake, this is a fantasy) I'm thinking that I could've cut and sewn an entire quilt top in the time it took for this traffic to move 10 miles.

I've come to several conclusions:

1.  I have not got enough minutes left in my life to do all the things I want to.  Quilting, travel, occasionally making dinner.

2.  Everything takes approximately twice as long to accomplish as I think it will. I'm going to just zip over to the grocery store to pick up some bread and milk.  Then I run into an old friend.  Fifteen minutes becomes an hour.

3.  It's always something.  Like the "Service Engine Soon" light on my dashboard.  A dog with an ear infection.  There are no eggs in the refrigerator.  You know the drill.

4.  I wouldn't trade the time spent with family and friends for anything.

Apparently this is an ongoing discussion in my subconscious.  The last two quilts I've designed are of the quick and easy variety.  The patterns are now up on the website.

The first is Lemonade Stand

 I've talked about this one before.  It's easy, summery and with a change of color can be Margarita or perhaps Blue Hawaii.

The next is Fall into Halloween

I like this one because it's fast and easy and also because it's great for medium to large allover prints and the other fabrics that go with them.  You can start this one and be napping under it in a weekend.

One final question:
Is there ever enough time?

I'm pretty sure the answer is no.  Just get over it and do what you can.

MOB

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