Autumn Days and Some Quilts

 

Good morning! How are you doing with the time change? Sunset at 430, oh my.

Takes me months to adjust, but with the help of Mo's stellar dogwalkers, who have come early all week, we are doing ok. [It's quite hard for a little doggy to wait an extra hour for his morning potty, he only knows what he has been taught to do and when to do it.]

Today he had a spa day, so he is all fresh and pretty for his few days of sleepover next week.

Today is cold and grey! The weatherbug said No rain for ten days but showers are looming. I had to put on the heat, unheard of, but I was shivering even in a down vest. As the weather changes and Fall turns chilly, indoors I change things up to a softer color story, a more nature inspired decor. 

Trader Joe's Honey Crisp Apple candle in a sweet little brown bowl.

Festive Thanksgiving runner in soft tones. Only the silvery mercury glass pumpkins stay out til Christmas.

An interesting footnote about my favorite big old wooden bowl Screenshot from an antiques dealer's IG page. Very similar to my bowl, note the price! [my mom bought mine when I moved here, $19.oo---big bucks back then.]

Earlier I brought in my little fountain and the graniteware bowl, gave them a good wash. Perhaps stored til spring, or redo if we get a nice warm sunny spell [like we should!]. The Meadow pots just keep on giving! Something new bloomed in the brown straw remnants of summer's once-lush growth. Is it a poppy? I guess, w the ferny leaf, they are a type of cosmos, though I am not familiar with this orange color?

And a few final marigolds brightening this dreary day. 

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This is only a part of my collection, the bright boldest October quilts, mostly.

As I fold away many of my October/ Fall quilts I thought it would be fun--and useful to me--to post the pics here. A little quilt show of some antique quilts, some minis by me, some timespan finishes [ie me, repaiiiring and finishing antique/ vintage tops or blocks.] Hope you enjoy.

I love this Sunflower quilt, finished by me with a lot of help from my quilter Lori C, Quilters Imagination.

I am intrigued by the fugitive and faded fabrics, how some remain as new while others are now tan; how the green setting corners' colors vary. Imagine how it once looked.

                                         

Then my finish. The red binding, the pop of glorious bright pink on the back.

Learning to paper piece, many years ago, below. 4.5" pumpkins, fun fabrics and buttons. Before internet quilt groups and quilt police, just learning for the fun of it.

This TQC cutie is missing! I have looked and looked. It's tiny but much loved.

Cascadia/ Peace and Plenty. A Humble Quilts sewalong.

A gift received in a Humble Quilts swap.

Notice how the quilts seem to echo the magnificent colors of the October and November sunsets.

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Today I will sew on Lori's QAL and work on my nature journals, tomorrow is soon enough for closet sorting, as clothing needs bypass ''transitional'', must bring out Winter. 

Here is "Parsonsfield" in black and white to help me keep low contrast but with awareness of the variations in depth of tones.

                                            

And I'll sneak out and snip some hydrangeas in the public plantings. My mom always decorated for November w crocks of Magenta and pinky-brown hydrangeas, displayed on her beloved red and purple Mennonite quilt top. Dinner is a leftovers stirfry with a side of lovely Delicata squash.

Have a great weekend.

love

lizzy

gone to the beach...

more birds. These are ocean ducks, probably surf scoters or eiders. Distinctive long wavery skeins of hundreds of birds out over the ocean. maybe click t enlarge?