Bronck Museum

I took a day to rest up from my day away.  Travel vending takes it's toll, but this was such a lovely place and don't know why I have never been here to visit before.  This is the library and I fell in love with that porch.

Some of the  smaller out buildings off to the left of the library.  Every building had vendors or some event going on during the day.  I went out for photos before the opening, but there was quite a crowd upon opening.

Down the sidewalk from the library heading into the heart of the complex.  It was cool, but the sunshine made it a crisp fall atmosphere for the day.

Just loved the charm of this house

and it reminded a lot of my own home - although mines a lot larger, but a lot of similarities.  They had a fiddle period band play on this porch and a lot of people sat to listen, rest, and even dance.

I would love to come back for one of the tours to take in  the beauty of all the barns and this home with out the vendor wares.

The windows, fireplaces and wide plank floor boards are so like my home.

The main part of the house (brick side) had two of these double dutch doors which does date it's earlier Dutch design from ours.  Gosh, I would love these.

The bedroom had this huge chifferobe.  I have one similar but no ball feet and somewhere along the way was painted white - oh my heart.

This looks so like our red barn - even the inside!  There were a lot of barns scattered on this old Dutch farmstead now museum/historical site.  Up in the right corner you can see a horse van (they were giving draft horse wagon pull rides thru the day around the entire complex), there is a large barn that had been used as a barracks.  They had and demo there, but I never got up to it.

This was the main office and where I was stationed.

Talk about photos where you chop off the heads of people, well I cropped the sheep!  These were my neighbors for the day on the side of the office building.

They were special visitors for me as their MaMa is my kitties' Vet.

As I said, I would love to revisit for one of their tours to take this entire complex in with all of it's  history that is so closely tied to my own.

Today I have an Exec Hall of Fame meeting in the morning ; I am waiting for some guests to arrive in the afternoon.  I will share that one later.

Seingly yours,
Sharon 

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.

77-78-68(yeah, an odd day)-80-84-87-84

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