Today I want to share with you a new pattern that found it’s way into my mailbox. It is fairly easy and you might want to make it for Christmas. And while here, enjoy looking around her sight. You’ll find the complete pattern by Debbie Kratovil: http://debbykratovilquilts.blogspot.com/2016/09/christmas-in-september-free-pattern.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DebbyKratovilQuilts+%28Debby+Kratovil+Quilts%29
I’m making it in colors and animals for fall. If you do choose to make this quilt, make a note that “c” on the pieced block should be 6.5″ as it is incorrect on the pattern.
Also just a reminder to mark the sewing lines on the light fabric to make the half square triangles.
Here is the photo I promised yesterday – of Juliette and her two lambs who are slightly bigger at 4 months than mom.
The sourdough bread turned out so good, that I made another batch today. Today’s dough was even better than yesterday’s so I’m anxious to see how that turns out. I have to wait because this rises 8-24 hrs in the refrigerator and is than baked.
Oh, and this is exciting to me. This is the first red pepper that I got to before the slugs.
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And now I can show you the quilt that I worked on early summer. It is a BOM called “celebrate” in The Quilt Pattern Magazine. 
The Dreamweaver is finished as is August. Yeah! I have an August finish.
The quilting is DONE!. Dreamweaver from the Strip your Stash book is couch size at 60×80″. It still needs a binding but that will happen in time.
Did you ever stop to think how useless these 2.5″ squares are by themselves. They are really too small for anything. But when they work together, look what happens. I think that applies to humans as well I separated these 9 patches with an almost white fabric of 2 1/2″ strips. When quilted it will be a perfect size (50×50″)for a lap quilt. So two things happened: I have used up some of my scraps, and someone will get a useful quilt.
Another inch knit this week. Slow and steady, they will get done. Another slow and steady has been the elliptical machine. Just 5 minutes a day, but every day. In October, I’m planning to increase the time, when other activities calm down. So I push myself for those 5 minutes and 10,000 steps daily thinking I must keep moving or get old.
Holiday creativity was the focus this month. These are sweet little girl aprons that could be started now and actually finished in time for Christmas.
As you can see there was a lot of emphasis on placemats, table cloths and runners as well as bed runners and pillows which make perfect gifts for yourself or someone special. These are terrific because they don’t take a long time to make, but make a big splash. 
This book by Leisure Arts has several nice runners.
The bear is finished. Next week he will go through a wash and dry cycle and then into the charity pile.
We spent the morning driving into Seattle to get 6 boxes of peaches from the co-op. They aren’t quite ripe and look like it maybe Monday before I can start canning them. I can already imagine how wonderful they will taste mid winter.
We were each given a sample pack of quilting stabilizers and batting when we arrived for class.
I thought you might like to see how the personal sized cantaloupe are doing. There are about 20 of them now. These 3 are about softball size but not ready to pick just yet.
The peppers are coming along nicely, but none have colored up yet. And most of what I planted were the orange and red.
This is my first try at sweet potatoes. Can you see where I lifted the leaves back? They are trying to take over the aisle and they are getting tall as well. However, when I reached around one of them by the stem, I don’t detect any underground potatoes. Should I? Have any of you ever grown them? I don’t know if I’m just wasting fertilizer and water and time or if they will actually give me some potatoes.