Scrappy Wednesday

Boy, it's been a long time since I had a scrappy play day or scrappy Wednesday post.  The commission quilt is a finished flimsy and pressed/blocked out for sandwiching.  Since the next three days I will be busy at the local quilt show, today is a play day.

I want to play with Bonnie Hunter's Rail Block Challenge which I am using a mix of logs and rails.  My previous scrap bag was down to a few left overs in a zip bag, so I pulled a new grocery sack of scraps to add to the mix.  Use it up is the theory of this quilt.

Even with the business, I did keep up with a little hexie each day and managed to finish off the next temperature rosette.  As you can see, we've had the typical changing of seasons of up and down temps.

60 -69 - 59 - 68 - 75 - 68 - 76

Take some time to play,

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon 

Busy Week

I am on the final lap of finishing up this commission - borders.  It will be a flimsy soon and then I have the backing/batt ready to get this sandwiched.  I hope to grab some time over the next few days to get this quilted as it is a busy week. 

I had some requests for local shops - sorry, you were no reply bloggers as you respond via Google +.  So here is a list:

The Joyful Quilter - Glenville, NY
Stitch & Time - Saratoga, NY
KC Framing and Fabric - Saratoga, NY
Common Thread - Saratoga Springs, NY
Log Cabin Fabrics - Selkirk, NY
The Yardstick - Cobleskill, NY
The Quilt Bug - Schenectady, NY

I have a Catskill Mountains Quilters Hall of Fame meeting down in Liberty, NY (2.5 hr drive for me) and we are to get heavy rains with the thanks of storm Nate - hopefully I won't be swimming.

Thursday I go to help with set up of the :

"Pieces from the Heart XII" Quilt Show
Cobleskill United Methodist Church
 *corner of Chapel & North Grand Streets, Cobleskill, NY
Show is Friday Oct 13 (2-6pm) and Saturday Oct 14 (9-3)
**special exhibit:  Betty Pillsbury - book signing and her crazy quilts
Honor Exhibit:  Local Quilt Guilds
Vendors (I'm vending), Silent Auction, and lunch available (Sat).


When this is all over - I am dumping a bag of scraps and play!!

Sewingly Yours,
Sharon

Of Temps & Friends

I have my nose to the grind stone to finish a commission before I am tightly booked with travel events.  BUT I do manage to check the noon temperature for each day so I can keep the rosettes on track.  We had a bit of variety for this week.

86 - 70 - 68 - 62 - 52 - 64 - 63

And I simply did not take a single picture the whole time that I had special visitors.  This journey was all about Barbara and Mike and she is entitled to the big picture of things.  I did pop out the morning they were to leave and get a picture of their big rig as it sat next to the old barn.  I'm, also, happy that our temperatures got warmer when they rolled thru. 

I am very honored that they had included me and our little town as part of their adventure(s).  If you don't follow Barb, you should.  She writes with such brightness and delight - and her photography is super.  I am enjoying traveling with them via her blog.

Sewingly Yours,

Sharon

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