It's Fall Y'all!!

Finally, the weather is just the way I like it, cool at night and sunny and in the 70's at night. Yesterday we packed up the dogs and went on a hike to Rattlesnake Lodge on the Blue Ridge parkway. It's the ruins from a summer home of a wealthy person a long time ago. And it is along the Mountains to Sea trail. We started farther away to make the hike 5 miles and the dogs did great!! Even little Mona. If you want to learn more about the ruins, you can go here: RattleSnake Lodge . I didn't take many pictures, but here is one view along the ascent.

This past July I went to my 45th High School Reunion. It was a blast!! And I got to see some old friends, and I mean old, lol. There were hundreds of pictures taken, but this one is of me and a good friend from Junior High School, Nyssa. Memories I will never forget!!

Other good friends from high school. Sondra, me, Vicki, and Bert. 

A few of us girls rode around my hometown of Mansfield, Ohio. We toured to see all of the changes that have occurred in the past 45 years, and there are many. But some things never change...like the City News. It has been there as long as I can remember. And Coney Island, yum!!!

Now, quilting.. A did some quilting for a friend a couple of weeks ago. She brought me the quilt to be finished, and also all of her spare pieces that she ended up not using. I couldn't throw them away so I made some more stuff. :) Mostly 9 patches and squares, but I made this wall hanging first. (Poor light this morning, colors aren't true). 

Still had more, so I cut up a few 9 patches and made this little table cloth. The picture is of it not sewn, but you can get my drift. I didn't take any pictures of it finished. I also had even more niners left, so I made her 2 placemats to go along with this. Can't let things go to waste, now can we??

My sister visited a while back and we made little design boards. Kenzie loves hers and uses it to display the scraps from my bag, lol. 

A wallhanging I did a few years ago doing a mystery with Lexy Correiea (sp?) from what used to be the Quilting Passion forum. It is very fallish. One of the first quilts I line quilted with my Bernina. 

And my latest mini hanging. I only have October to do and I have the whole year finished.

And lastly, I made 2 purses for a couple of friends. Cute drawstrings with little matching snap bags.

Whew. 2 weeks in a row. I'm trying, lol.

Later,

Wilma

HI!!

I miss my blog, and looking at all of the blogs I used to keep up with. So, I thought I would try harder and at least post once a week. Christmas is getting closer and I need some new projects, and there is nowhere I know of that I can get lots of ideas than the blogs of my internet friends.

Right now I am making a new Heartwarming Jacket. I made one in the early 90's and totally wore it out!! 2 of my sisters and I decided we all needed new ones, so we searched and found patterns on ebay. They are out of print now, but there seem to be a lot of them for sale. You make the quilted panels then cut out the coat. I have 2 panels totally done, and 2 more to quilt, then sew the coat together. They are so nice!! I did mine with muslin and 30's prints.

And, like so many others in the quilting world, I am trying to cut up and organize my scraps. I have cut up a lot of pieces already. But the more you pull out of your scrap basket, it fluffs up and looks just as full, lol. I cut 5" sq pieces first, then 4", 3 1/2", 2 1/2" and 1' 1/2'. Strips longer than 12 " are saved, 2 1/2", 2", and 1 1/2".

This is what I have so far, after about 5 hours of cutting, lol. I have found quite a few small pieced sections that I am going to try to sew together someday. Someday....

So, I posted for this week. Now to go look at all of my favorite blogs!!

Later,
WilmaNC