Fall has arrived in the Bay Area of California. My two trees that show color are doing so, and I have amassed a collection of squash-es to last the winter. We are looking at a 50% chance of rain tomorrow, the first in a very long while. I finally finished the cardigan last night. So fiddly, not just the seaming together, but the button holes, then sewing on the buttons and weaving in the ends, I was ready to be finished. These little booties are quick enough to knit up though. Garter stitch and a bit of picot on the edge, the second one is going a bit faster. I just hope I have enough blue yarn left over. I found this cute onesie pattern from Coco Knits, called Baby Bear, I’m going to dig through the yarn stash to see if I have anything soft enough in the right weight. I like Coco knits patterns because they are usually one piece and very little seaming. They design clever shaping with decreases and increases, plus make it all understandable with videos and concise details.

I did a quick turn around quilt Monday, a local lady contacted me to see if I could finish her baby quilt for her by the weekend. I was able to do so, as I had just finished the Spot on quilt and it was off the frame. This little quilt was 35″ square, two and a half rows of quilting and it was done. I got it back to her yesterday, it’d be great to do more like that, but everything has to line up. When I finished the Spot on quilt I had enough left over backing to quilt this banner panel that I got on sale. The trees, hearts and stars are supposed to be double sided stuffed ornaments, but I am going to hang them in-between the letter flags. I want to try to cut them with pinking shears around the edges. I might have a rotary pinking blade, I have to look through my collection.

I started on making the HST’s for the first Winterly quilt top. Then realized I made them with the wrong background color, 128 of them. I think I will be able to use them in one of the other quilts. In the meantime I feel a little stalled on this project. I ordered a few yards of the dark (called for) background fabrics. Once it gets here, I will make up the two blocks, and see if they still work using the lighter background. I may just have to change 64 of them, I used my Accuquilt die to cut them, so it’ll be easy to recut the pieces quickly. I got my new dies in the mail yesterday, I will be using the 1 ½” strip die for this project too. I have never been comfortable cutting narrow strips from yardage. The ruler just doesn’t have enough grip on the fabric and they eventually get wonky. The plus to using the die is being able to cut five at a time.

Cross stitch time has been sporadic, lately it is every other day, but I am making progress. At 18 days in, I’m about 30% done. The roof tiles require much counting and I don’t like concentrating that much some nights.

Be Kind.