Fall is in the Air

Here I am again, and it only took me four days to get back to it this time.
It's been awhile since I posted about our SIS hand sewing bee, so I thought I'd throw in a couple of pictures from our gathering yesterday.

There were only 3 of us that day, Jean has been awfully busy this summer.

Chris was working on her 9-patches, and showed us the 'hybrid' project which was the result of melding 2 projects... something that was not planned but turned out wonderfully. She had been working on the 9-patches for some time, and then she had these adorable wonky houses.













And Alice is hand quilting her Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt, which is one of my favorite quilts, so I am particularly interested in watching her progess with that one. She's doing a great job with it, and it's going to be a precious heirloom!

I haven't been doing as much sewing lately, as fall is definitely in the air, and there can't be too many beautiful days left like the ones we've been having. So DH and I have been working outdoors mostly, getting ready for winter. I did finish another Dear Jane block yesterday though, and got a good start on another one. It looks lop-sided but it's not. It's just the way I had it aligned in the scanner.

M-12 Hopscotch


Another reason I wanted to blog today was to test something that Chris taught me. Actually, she had to re-teach me with a little remedial tutoring on blogging as I can't seem to remember things very well! So I wanted her to refresh my memory on how to create a link within one's blog. So here goes, I am going to try to link to her EXCELLENT blog, Crispy Quilts. And once you get there, you can also follow a link to a second blog of hers where she does tutorials on hand piecing which I highly recommend. Even if you haven't thought you'd like to be a hand-piecer, why not give it a try! You might like it.

And a rare remaining daylily bloom... this one is really hanging in there. I took the photo at dusk, so the flash went off and it gave a striking backdrop which was much darker than reality.


Have a great day, take time to smell the 'daylilies', and SEW!!!

My Name Is Rita, and I'm a Slacker

I have only done one more block since my last post, but here it is. Our guild is getting ready for our annual quilt show, and that's taking up a lot of my time. After the first weekend in November, that'll be behind us though. Then I'll really kick it into high gear on my Dear Jane.

M-8 Enchanted Square

Catching Up on DJ Blocks

I was feeling rather guilty today about how little time I've spent posting on here lately. And then I got sidetracked playing with spreadsheets of my completed blocks, vs. which ones I've posted. And I realized there wsas a huge 'gap'. So I am going to try to get the rest posted... perhaps in installments.

SOOOoooo, here we go! Hope this isn't too boring... but after all, the primary objective for me of this blog was sort of to document my Dear Jane journey, and I just got way behind on it. One thing I'm wishing I had done differently was to note the dates each block was done, and perhaps journal a little bit about what was going on at the time (my private thoughts).

And in reviewing, I realized a couple of these I'm not particularly proud of. Some were among the very earliest. But I'm posting them anyway. I may or may not redo the worst of the worst... we'll just see.

I also see GLARING threads sitting atop some of the blocks. Funny how you don't see those little guys until the image is blown up on-screen. I'll have to rescan all of those with lose threads on them as soon as I can get around to it.

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A-1 Pinwheel Gone Awry


A-2 One-Two Buckle My Shoe


A-3 Hunter's Moon


A-5 Cathie's Campfire


A-6 Uncle Homer


A-8 Florence Nightingale


B-1 Bachelor Buttons


B-6 Wild Goose Chase



C-3 Rayelle's Fence


C-5 Eye of the Cyclone


C-12 Family Reunion


D-3 Jason's Jacks


D-6 Challenge


D-12 Crossed Swords


D-13 Field of Dreams



H-1 Peek-a-Boo


H-13 Farm Fields


I-12 Fred's Square Fair


J-4 Adelaine's Apron Strings


J-12 Rebecca's Basket


K-1 Crooked Creek


L-10 Nan's Naiad


L-11 Caitlin's Rose


M-10 Simple Simon