It's Fall, y'all!

      It's official- first wooly worm sighting at the farmhouse. I think the prediction for winter is bitter cold at the beginning (the black part on the right side is the head), mostly mild (in brown) for the rest and a little bit of cold at the end (the tail). I've seen pictures of persimmons seeds with spoons inside indicating enough snow to shovel. There were many foggy mornings in August which also relate to days of snow this winter. In all this means its gonna be COLD and I will be sitting by the heater from about November to March. I am planning to have a few quilt projects handy to work on in confined spaces and time is running out.
      I attended a quilting conference in mid-September - Runaway Quilters Retreat near Owensboro. I returned home with three new WIPs with the intention of getting them to kit stage for the coming winter. I got so obsessed with getting my Granny Squares blocks done that I stayed home to sew instead of going on a Stash Enhancement eXcursion to Whittle's Fabrics with my Campbellsville quilt group. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Anyway, the top is finished and here it is!

      It's about 75 x 85. There are 42 blocks, each containing 36 print 1-inch squares (1512).  The borders consist of another 600-plus squares - over 2000 squares. The solid brown fabric was purchased but rest came from stash. I still have enough strips cut for another quilt but I'm leaving them in the tote until I can choose a different background. Now I have to decide on the backing and how to quilt it.

Back to the farmhouse to "plan " more projects!

Sew until Later, Denise