Just keep stitching, is my mantra this week. I really want to finish the Light house this week. I made some head way this weekend and feel like it is within reach. After four days of stitching, I am nearing the top of the house and the beacon light.

In the mean time the Foliage and Fur quilt is in rows. As I am putting the blocks together I am reminded how wiggly Essex linen is. Making a note here to starch it next time I use it. I may even put a physical note on my small collection of this pretty fabric. This quilt is cute, although some of the animals look, to me, like they want to leave, something in the eyes. Not the squirrels though, they are just shifty.

I had stay home days Monday and Tuesday, as there were gardeners and tree trimming people doing things around the house and they needed a little supervision. They were able to move a bunch of soil and compost in and take a bunch of branches and tree debris out. Chores I know how to do, but things a 20-something young man can have more fun doing. I was able to finish off the Pineapple quilt on the longarm. I am figuring out (as I go) a way to do the borders vertically, rather than having to turn the quilt. Once again measuring is my weakness. There was some unstitching involved and some creative resizing, but I think I have a method.

The Alphabet sweater is getting its right front knit up. This piece goes a bit faster than the back. As I suspected the motifs won’t match up at the side seams, but they will start at the button band and at least face the same way.

I started the appliqué on the Tilda Anniversary quilt. I numbered all the fabrics with their corresponding pattern number. So now I don’t have to refer to the printed color chart every time I do a shape. Most of the numbers are written on the backside of the main fabric too. This chart is my friend, I think I should put it in a plastic sleeve, it’s going to get a bit more wear and tear. It came packed in with the fabric and looks like someone sat on it.

Today I want to load the two pumpkin patches quilt tops on the frame. I am going to have to use a bit of math to figure out how to load them both on to one piece of backing and batting economically. I bought two more fall themed quilt patterns, Pumpkin seeds and Hocus Pocus from The Pattern Basket this morning. My DD has asked for a fall themed wall hanging for over her fireplace. I think I will be able to get a small wall hanging version of one of them using my left over pieces from the two Pumpkin Patches quilts.

Labor Day weekend is upon us, sigh, end of summer blues. All this pumpkin talk is making me think of pies and candy corn. It’s time to break out the fall themed quilts, I already hung the Halloween Figs quilt in the stairwell. Maybe I’ll change out the bed quilts to more fall colors too.

Be Kind.