This month is almost over, one more week. I can’t say if it went by quickly or slowly for me, as I ended up finishing a few things and starting a few things. I sort of stopped looking at the calendar, not knowing the exact date only the day of the week. It was slightly freeing of the normal time pressures for me. Most are self imposed to-do lists for the week or day, but my days seem full of activities, and low stress.

I finished the Manor house part of my stitchery project. I want to add a simple border to it. I looked at a few different Art Deco inspired ones and think a simple one will finish off the piece. I may add the dates it was built and re-modeled, and I am thinking of a golden color floss. or maybe black. I am looking forward to restarting the Fabulous houses piece to finish the Log Cabin and finish that piece. It has been a looong year of stitching on it.

The X&+ Zen Chic quilt top is back together (with many more neutral color blocks) bordered and ironed. I am thinking of ways to quilt it. I can be lazy and do an all over panto, or do the panto in the center and a border/corner quilt pattern around it. I was also contemplating extending the block seam lines out into the plain borders. There is also the question of whether to use angular quilting motifs or curving ones. I was leaning towards curvy, but then I saw some that were more straight with rounded corners. I need to keep thinking on this one, to figure out what is going to work. I also have to finish the quilting on the Woodland Friends quilt which is currently on the frame. It is about 75% done, might finish it off later today. I like this panto – Grace, as it has enough coverage and interest, with only a little back tracking.

I trimmed the last four quilts that I have longarm quilted. Thats a project for this week too, get them bound and do a photo shoot. The sun has been shining in my favorite photo shooting spot once again. I’ll get every thing set up and do a few hours of clicking and cropping. I have quite a few quilts that need to be added to the listings in my shop. Sadly no recent sales there, an influx of new product could spark some interest.

I started a new quilt top yesterday, it is a mini version of the Pumpkin Patch pattern I made from Cluck Cluck Sew patterns. It’s called Mini Brightly Holidays, there are four different versions, a pumpkin, Christmas tree, star and heart. I like this one as it is a good scrap buster. I am using the fabrics from the ½ yard bundle I got to make the Woodland friends top. The blocks are 6 inches finished, I used the animal faces in place of four of the star blocks, and nixed the stars for solid squares. I also bought a Layer cake of Halloween themed prints to make another pumpkin patch quilt. It’s not too early to start thinking autumnal quilts. I should knock off the blocks I need to make for the Blooming Beauty BOM before starting anything else. The next set should be arriving this week. Once this little quilt is together I AM going to pull out the Message in a Bottle quilt and work on it to finish it. Thats my plan for the rest of the month.

Be Kind.