Change of Winds

We literally went to a drop of over 20 degrees overnight!  I love the cooler weather, but my body has trouble adapting to sudden 'pressure' changes.  The hillside trees are not only getting a little more color, but the winds that night sent a lot of leaves flying.

My Juki must not like sudden changes either - she is acting up more and more to the point of being impossible to work with.  It's that infernal motherboard that no one will listen to me about.  I have a few essentials to pick up later today to finish my last commission piece - so change of winds so to speak.  I will work on the next clue of the Sapphire Mystery.

My little back-up machine can handle these simple seams.  You get use to a machine and all the perks.  I had to tape the 'seam' mark and getting use to controlling speed via how much 'lead' you put on the foot pedal - and miss the needle up/down function.  But this little guy will at least keep the work flow going.

Sometimes we have to adapt to the change of winds,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon 

Just a Bit

I have just a bit to finish up on commissions, but I took some time to piece the spacer sections of Yankee Diary QAL.  I want this to not be taken over by R/W/B, so the 3.5" blocks are all various color CW prints.  

Some sections I could sew together and others are pinned into placement for later as the other blocks are released.  This month's block just came out, but it will wait for later in October to be worked on.

The furkids have not been allowed near the commission work and have been pretty good about it.  SO...... they took every opportunity to help with this.  The Queen just loves red and was just pleased as punch to roll her furs all over everything.

Moe on the other hand decided the project's tote was a good place to take a bit of a 'preening' break.  He was pulling burdock prickers out of his tail - glad the project wasn't in the tote as I had quite the mess to clean out when he was done.

The next temperature rosette is a lot lighter in color as we have had some very Summer like weather (finally) during the first few days of the official Fall season.

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I hope to have the last commission ready for quilting before I head to the 

Bronck Museum for a Heritage Crafters' venue.  Anyone in the Coxsackie, NY area - this is Sunday, Oct 1st, from 12-5pm and is a free event.   This is my furthest travel venue and next to last vending event for the year.  I am honored to be asked to partake in this and I must remember my camera.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

Last Day of Summer/First Day of Fall

I was very excited to manage finishing one Burgoyne Surrounded block.  There are a lot of pieces in one block and you have to pay attention to color placement.  Yes, I had to use the seam ripper at least once.  I have all the other fabrics cut out and waiting on the display board, but I have a commission to work on.

A whole lot of log cabins being chained thru the machine right now.  I hope to have these finished today.  The pink isn't part of this - just some odd projects that are 'oddly' stored behind the machine to help encourage me to finish them.  Not working!

And my favorite tree - the minature apple that wasn't a mini.  It doesn't have an apple on it.  Not because we picked them all, but our strange,cooler weather made them prematurely ripen before full growth and they all dropped.  As you can see, not a one on the ground either!  The deer just LOVE this tree  A bit of fall color is starting to show on this side of the house, too.   

I've had a bit of a walk about, so now back to those log cabins,
Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Scrappy Wednesday

The commissioned bags are finished and client contacted for pick up.  While I was going over the plans for the larger bag, I remembered I had a horse print bag in-progress from my bag class.  A few changes had to be made for the required interior, but it made for a quick finish with something already 3/4 done.  

I managed to get four  completed Patchwork QAL blocks done using them as leader/enders with the bags.  I'll try to finish the other two with the same method when I play today.

The next temperature rosette shows that we went into a warm spell.

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One of the gals who 'shopped' my loaded table wanted to return the favor.  I told her to bring me an 'ugly' to challenge me.  THIS IS NOT UGLY!  This is a treasure!  Yardage of "Pink and Chocolate" by Nancy Gere for Windham Fabrics - BUT.............

she had pieces from the line and look at this!  I am taking a day to play before I dive into the next commission work.  I have been loving the Burgoyne Surrounded blocks popping up around the web and I think these will be perfect for such a project.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon