Thursday afternoon I was putting the orange blocks together for the next Halloween themed quilt, when my DH stopped by the sewing room to check in. The power went off, as we were speaking, it takes twenty seconds for the generator to kick in, so we continued the conversation as I turned my machine off. Sigh. The power was off for about 22 hours, unspecified reason, and only on our road. I am wary about using my machines on the generators power, it’s fine for the refrigerators and lights though. I ended up getting a lot of little X’es made, and finally finished the binding on the everyday/everyway bag. Between the power outage and the guests from earlier this week I feel like I got very little done. That being said, it was really fun to hang out with everyone and eat lots of good food.

This Halloween quilt is a free pattern from Riley Blake, but I added a row to use up the sixth print from the panel. I am going to change the borders a bit too, and add in the “& Curiouser” words. It’ll be a throw quilt rather than a wall hanging. I think I may do one more Halloween themed quilt for the store, as I sold the other two I made earlier this summer. I did a photo shoot of the Pumpkin Patch quilts and a few others yesterday. Plus I up-dated a few photos from some older listings. Now I need to spend a few hours creatively describing the quilts and posting them. Sometimes I wonder if I am wasting my time writing up the descriptions. I think that if I were buying a quilt, and spending the money, I would like to know all about it. A picture is worth a thousand words though, and a hundred words makes a sale.

I did finish the Light house late last week (9/7). The Floating house has some water under it and a base to float on. I try to do at least three strands of floss in the Caribbean blue color each stitching session. I’ve been loading three needles at a time, so I can just pick up the next one after ending the last. Mindless stitching, once I got the fishes and otter done. I am trying to figure out a plan for the siding of the house part. It is almost an argyle pattern, maybe just go horizontally row by row, rather than trying to stitch the pattern and background separately. Or maybe on the diagonal, sort of like how some stitchers do full coverage pieces. The Tree house had a little of this type of patterning, but in smaller sections due to all the windows and angles.

The Shine quilt got finished and bound. This was from a kit I got at a clearance sale, so it is off the shelf and into the shop. It is pretty cute, and even though it is mostly a panel type quilt, the sections of piecing and borders make it interesting. I thought the instructions could have been written better. I did end up playing binding chicken, I won by ½ inch.

Today I am hoping to get a start on the Bessie quilt, it is relaxing on the LA frame right now. I haven’t picked a panto or block design for it yet. Maybe something southwest or feathery or flowery, but geometric could work too. The sashings could use something, must think on it some more.

Be Kind.