Just Around the Corner

It's almost Labor Day Weekend and my question is, how did it get here so fast?  Luckily, there's still time for more warm weather and it's a good thing because I have a couple million tomatoes that aren't ripe yet.  I have a great recipe for fried green tomatoes, but I'd like to enjoy some ripe ones, too.  Home-grown tomatoes are so meaty as opposed to the store-bought ones that are mostly skin, seeds and water.

About the web page:  (Insert weeping and gnashing of teeth.) It's being worked on and we hope to get the shopping cart working in the next few days.  In the meantime, if you'd like to buy a pattern, please email me and we'll get connected by phone.  There's no shipping charge until we get this cart thing worked out.

We just finished a new pattern for fall called "Set an Autumn Table." It includes runner, placemat, napkin and mug mat.  There is a bit of basic paper piecing and some fusing.  The items are all quick to make and mostly use scraps.

Set an Autumn Table

I'll be teaching this one at Let's Quilt in West Linn, OR on October 6, starting at noon.  For more information and to sign up, go to www.letsquiltshop.com  

Colors of Fall

Colors of Fall is one of my all-time favorites.  It's got piecing and some fusing.  This one I'm also teaching at Let's Quilt on September 22.  

This last thing I just have to share.  Barb and I visited my mom down in Southern Oregon a couple of weeks ago.  Mom lives on a busy street only about a mile from downtown so we were surprised that she's visited several times a week by five wild turkey hens.  They wander up the driveway, past the back door to hang out under the dogwood tree for a while and then they leave.  

I followed them with  my iPad and found that they're quite camera shy.  When I cornered them behind the wall, they just flew up to the top.

 They weren't so crazy about being photographed there either and one flew up to the garage roof.

I have a few seconds of video, but it just runs continuously when I put in on here and it's kind of annoying.  So here's a still instead.

We have no idea where they're nesting or who else they visit, but these girls are pretty funny.

And speaking of girls, Ella says hi to all her fans.  She seems to think that being cute and trying to dig up moles in the back yard are worthy of fame.

Have a safe and fun holiday weekend.

Candy