Sorta Secret

I've embarked on a new journey with a definite deadline.

Can you guess?  It involves 36 yellow rosebuds ...

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Butterflies is (are?) a flimsy/top

With the weather deteriorating by the minute here on the Plateau, I spent a good portion of the day in the sewing room.

Butterflies a/k/a Purple Haze by Villa Rosa Designs

I don't know what it is about this top that makes me smile.  The bright colors?  The quarter triangle squares that look like clown bowties?

This one is not going anywhere.  I have a couple of GSs who could be producing greats in a few years and this one is for them!

The remnants from this one will appear in another quilt that I will work on at the next retreat.

Nowhere to Go

... and am I glad!

We just had a 20-minute spell of big wind with leaves and acorns along with a little rain pelting the window next to my desk.  It could freeze on the Plateau tonight.  Quite a change from the 70s earlier in the week.

All was calm two days ago when this mama and two younguns wandered through the yard.

Every time they heard the camera click they would stop and pose for me.  Very thoughtful of them!

Hoping to get Butterflies finished today and make some progress on the remains.  Stay tuned.

A Good Day

The guild I belong to has an open-sew day on the 4th Friday of the month.  Sometimes we have a technique workshop, sometimes comfort quilts or QoV volunteers work together on special projects, and sometimes, like this Friday, we have a full-day class.

My S'mores friends, Nancy and Donna, came to The Glade to teach Two-Fabric Bargello, a pattern by Suzy Weaver Quilts.

Nancy on the left, sharing helpful hints with a student

Nancy constantly circled the room, giving encouragement and helpful hints.  Meanwhile, Donna and I were helping to hold double-length rulers steady in the strip cutting process.

Donna on the right, helps Kathy keep her rulers steady

Staying organized, labeling each strip, and proceeding methodically are essentials to success in this project.

By the end of the day, everyone had cut all their strips and had enough assembled to be able to proceed on their own at home.

Suzy and Kathy

It was a GOOD DAY!

MIA

Missing in Action

No sewing, no blogging, because I was prepping for this:

I'm happy to report my trunk show went very well, members oohed and ahhed over my mother's quilts from the 70s, and everyone laughed on cue at my self-deprecating jokes.  Friday night I was finally able to sleep through a night without rehearsing my script in my head.

Saturday morning I woke to another gorgeous sunrise.

Sunrise 10/20/19

With several consecutive nights with very cool/cold temps, we finally have some fall color. 

View from our deck

DH and I had several errands to run in Knoxville yesterday so we enjoyed the changing colors along the Interstate as we drove east off the plateau and down into the valley.  Unfortunately it was overcast and misting so we didn't have distant views into the Smokies.

Today will be a typical Sunday -- early choir practice followed by worship service.  Then I hope to get back into the sewing room. 

Butterflies (a/k/a Purple Haze by Villa Rosa Designs

Those butterflies have been patiently waiting on the design wall and they need to get stitched together before they fly away!

Have a happy Sunday, Y'all!

Destashing

Today was Devo and Sew day.  We work on our own projects as well as spending time on encouragement quilts for friends and members of the congregation that need a quilty lift.  Several of my recent projects were destined to be encouragement quilts so I delivered them today. 

Baubles and Beads

My Rainbow Scrap Challenge project, Chandelier Beads, still needs a border.  It will be an easy project for someone to finish on our "Encouragement Day" in November.  Since the lighting is better there, I took a closeup of the background fabric which has been so much fun to work with this year.

You may be able to see the WOW I used for the setting triangles.  It has Asian cranes printed on it.

Another recent project, Manly 4-Patch (please don't yell at me for being sexist), went to the cause today.

Manly 4-Patch

This quilt was originally intended for the homeless Vets home, but when the guild I belong to decided to use only patriotic colors, I decided to pass this on to Devo.  Here's a closeup of the fabric I chose for the alternate squares.

Since green is one color in nature that goes with everything, I fall back on green when I need a "neutralizing" agent.

I also took Bonnie Hunter's Strip Twist for someone to add the borders on our Encouragement Day.  Forgot to get a picture, though.  And there was an unfinished kit I added to the pile; it basically needs horizontal sashing and two or three borders.  Another unfinished project, Contrary Mary, needs at least one more block to make it a usable size; hopefully we can get that one ready to finish on our work day.

I took advantage of our large flat cutting area (kitchen cabinets) to trim Double Shot.

Double Shot

This was another RSC project this year.  I will be looking for an appropriate border fabric and will probably keep this one.