Life is good! We had a whole week of mostly beautiful fall weather last week. The fall colors are near peak around here. And our feral cat clan appears happy and healthy.
We attended an all-school reunion on Saturday evening in our previous hometown. My in-laws, my husband, our kids and all of their cousins attended that school, along with lots and lots of other extended family. And I taught there for 18 years too. It was a smaller than usual attendance, but it was an enjoyable evening. Four years ago there were 10 first cousins at the alumni reunion. but this time only 4 were there - my sister-in-law Kathy, my hubby, cousin Anita, and cousin Gene.
And BTW - college basketball season has begun. We attended a doubleheader on Sunday for the local DWU Tigers. And on Wednesday we'll make the first drive to Brookings for Jackrabbit basketball.
Another new week, and it will soon be a fresh new month too. My goal list for this week isn't very long, but hopefully will contain some finishes again. When the list has binding on it, I can be very optimistic about finishing something. All of the other fun things going on over the weekend meant there was no sewing time, other than a little binding. I hope to make up for that in the next few days.
- finish binding the Churn Dash baby quilt (a UFO)
- quilt and bind 2 doll quilts
- Honey Bees quilt top needs borders
- make more blocks for on-going projects
- Blockheads (week 4)
- another alternate block for Marigold
- Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks
I really want to get both of these doll quilts to the finish line, so they can be paired up with a stuffy and donated soon. The tops were already done, and I finally got them sandwiched with batting leftovers and backing leftovers. The quilting will be kept simple.
Blockheads for week 3 was this Game Day block by Sherri McConnell. My Christmas version is the 12" size, and the bright version is the 9" size. For the Christmas blocks I'll be doing a scrappy background to go with the scrappy Christmas fabrics from the stash. But for the bright set of blocks I'm going to keep the background the same, which is a neutral slightly on the cream side of white. Wednesday will bring us the Week 4 block. What will it be?
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