Perfectly Fall
We’re having a beautiful fall day. I’m surprised there are any leaves left on the trees after the storm we had last weekend. It was a bummer for the trick or treaters as it was rainy and windy. We had the fewest kids ever and now there is candy in my freezer. I’ve eaten my favorites out so it doesn’t call to me.
It smells like fall outside this afternoon. The damp and leaves and just a hint of smoke which surprises me as it’s been illegal to burn leaves for years. Someone must have a fireplace going.
These mums and some volunteer lobelia are all the non-green colors in the vegetable garden. Most of the greenery is California Poppies. It’ll probably be too cold for this bunch to bloom, but I like the fluffy leaves.
I love these leaves even though they only have color on one side. I suspect we’ll have some clogged storm sewers in our future.
Some cool light and shadow stuff going on here. This is what fall looks like in many parts of the west.
I started my “Finished List” the same day I blogged about it and I’m really getting into this idea. It’s perfect for me as I’m a great starter and an intermittent finisher. As in , “I started Christmas shopping,” because I ordered one thing. Sweet Husband’s goal is to be finished by Thanksgiving. My goal is to not buy anyone anything stupid. The list sort of goads me into finishing something, no matter how small and that feels so good.
A week ago Wednesday I took a class from Pat Pauly. She spoke at our guild Tuesday night, which was very entertaining. The class was on her New Leaf pattern. I like the idea of this more than I like what I did. I have never brought all the right fabrics to a class. I finished the top by the weekend and while I’m not crazy about some of my fabric choices, I will quilt and bind it before starting a leaf of my very own.
But first, I will quilt this Christmasy runner and get the pattern up on the Shopping Page.
This is the perfect time to finish last year’s projects that didn’t quite make it. And yes, the runner was pieced last year. A couple of weeks ago I took it out and found a mistake, fixed it and now I’m ready to quilt it. Thankfully, I had the foresight to cut the binding and pin it to the top. I have many regrets about not thinking to do that in the past.
If you finished last year’s projects (and I would be very impressed by that) and you haven’t gotten fabric for a new project, you’d better get on it sooner than later. It’s such a downer to find the perfect fabric but there’s not enough on the bolt and the shop isn’t getting any more. I really hate that.
Quilt for fun, because it would be silly not to.
