Fall - the Sequel

FALL has moved indoors.

 

Love the colors in the gourds, most of them picked by DH. He has a really good eye for color - very helpful to a quilter wife!  Not pictured is the inside carving pumpkin which will be carved into an as of yet unknown design for Halloween.

 

The car has officially been cleared of the Fall decorating material & I have recovered my beloved Atlas from the DH's car! 

 

 

It is back where it belongs - in it's zipper bag, hanging on the back of the passenger seat in the Flying Toaster (Honda Element). So I am ready for my next Road Trip!!
 Yes - that's the designated truck quilt. 

 

It's called "Flying Over Hawaii", a pineapple variation done in Cherrywood Fabrics, paper foundation pieced and machine quilted.

 Living in the north part of Illinois, one learns to be prepared for Winter travel and why not do it with a little quilt style.

 

Still feeling like a limp dishrag, Still working on the Summer Stripes layout...

 

 



We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Quilt Blog...

To Bring You:                                               FALL

 

 

Yesterday was the second annual Pumpkin Hunting Adventure with our dear friends Pam & Tony.  This year the weather was better - chilly and damp not cold & sleety like last year.  We headed to a local family farm - not the local Mega Mart. We were too busy reveling in the selection of the many varieties of pumpkins, gourds & squashes to remember to take pictures - DUH!  The farm also has produce & fresh eggs.  We wandered into the barn this year to see the new kittens and discovered the young turkeys being raised for Thanksgiving dinners.  Tony, a chef, just about exploded with glee and quickly added his name to the list.  DH & I will now shamelessly try to wrangle an invitation to turkey.

 

By the time we packed the car with pumpkins, stopped at the greenhouse for a mum & stalks, decided on dinner so we could shop for ingredients, wandered into World Market on the continued search for a narrow table for the hall, realized that it was the Fall book sale at our library and stopped to fill a bag a books, it was WAY too late to begin the artistic arrangement of Fall.  That and I was fighting off some Evil Germ that is trying my patience (I'm currently losing the fight) and dinner was a multi pot/pan/all burners & the oven too adventure.

 

DH is in full Fall mode and is requesting hearty meals. Sausage and Peppers. That should be easy right? No. It evolved into Sausage (two kinds) and Peppers (green, red, orange, and Italian Frying), with a fresh squished tomato (4 kinds) sauce over Farfalle pasta, with garlic cheese bread.  You would think with all the garlic I used the Evil Germ would have been struck down. NOT.

 

I, however, being a Summer born baby, am rebelling against the Season by insisting on finishing the Summer Stripes quilt.  Which I will work on the layout today, all day, on my laptop, on my end of the couch, under a quilt, warmed by two dogs, visited by a purring cat or two, drinking many cups of tea laced with lemon & honey.  That will hopefully make a dent in the Evil Germ and the ward off the reality of Winter's inevitable approach for just a little longer. We'll see.