On occasion, I test quilt patterns for others. This one I need to have done by the first week of January is now cut out. I am loving the colors and the fabric is old enough, it probably came from my mother’s fabrics. But the bears on a picnic are cute and fit well with this pattern I will test.
The bowls are now ready to top stitch. However, I’m have to get the light above the sewing machine replaced first. It seems the ballast is bad.
The cotton scraps are all finished though I will admit that the “large” pieces that went into the color buckets were getting smaller as the day grew longer.
Daisy is and will be a puppy for another year. We are lucky she found an egg carton to destroy. Even though she has bones, she still loves to shred anything she can find. We know that and we are the adults(?) here, so if it gets chewed, we have ourselves to blame.
Scraps, scraps, scraps – after a day and a half of cutting, I am 2/3 done. This smaller box is still waiting its turn.
These are what these squares look like all cut into usable pieces (I cut 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5 and 6″ squares) and
Elm Street’s OMG project — 
She’s finished and I’m very happy with how this one turned out. My sister did all the little Sunbonnets and I put them together and quilted them. I have not yet labeled it, but that is in its future. I’m linking up to Elm’s street One monthly goal.
Sunbonnet #3 is now ready to bind. I’ve been looking back and it seems I have not done much sewing or quilting since late spring. This felt good to get on and off the machine.
Here is a close up of one of the blocks. This one received loops in between the blocks. Hopefully it will get a binding finished before the month is over.
These are the only two pumpkins/squash that survived this year, though other produce did very well.
After all the stems were removed, there were 2 gallon sized bags of parsley to be dehydrated.
I brought in a few beets, greens, carrots, and onions.
Standing at the door, this is what is still growing.
Swiss chard which was picked Friday and onions, both of which will continue throughout the winter.
Winter broccoli or cauliflower, now I’m not sure which, but won’t be ready until early spring.
Kale that badly needs picking.
And my very own Tonka Truck – well, not really mine, but he has really been chewing away at the blackberries and cleaning the place up.