It's Fall

Fall started on Monday evening.  I can't believe it!  Where did the summer go?  We had lots of rain and very cool weather in September.  But now that fall is officially here, the weather has turned warm and sunny. This is my kind of weather.

We started up our Tuesday morning quilting group a few weeks ago.  This really makes it feel like fall again.  Here we are sewing, reading, chatting, knitting, eating and drinking tea.  It's a wonderful time to get together!

September 23, 2014

I am now off to my sewing room.  

Our guild, the Rouge Valley Quilter's Guild is holding a challenge.  It's called the PhD challenge. PhD stands for Projects half done.  This is how it works.  We have to register an unfinished project that we want to work on.  We have to finish this by next May.  If we finish it we have met the challenge.  If we don't finish it we have to donate $5 to our local women's shelter.  Heck, that's a win/win situation!   I am going to enter several of my UFOs into this challenge.  It will be so nice to get some things done!

Tuesday Morning Group

Day 5 of Blogtoberfest. My quilt group meets on Tuesday mornings. I wasn't able to ride my scooter over there because of the rain, but one of my good quilting buddies picked me up. We meet in a local church. Everyone works on whatever they want. This is also a time to get other people's input as to sashing colour and block layouts etc. There were nine of us today. The table was overflowing with projects. I was busy putting some hexies together and drinking coffee and eating butter tarts. I'll show you the flowers tomorrow. Sorry, no butter tarts. They were all gone by the time we left.

I was only able to take two photos. I don't know why. I should have taken more. There were lots of photo opportunities, but I seem to have missed them. I also promised I wouldn't put any names on my blog. Here is the first photo of two quilters trying to decide which fabric to use for the sashing on a friendship quilt.

These women are playing with the layout of some blocks for a baby quilt.


It is good to get out with my quilting buddies every week. It's a way to stay connected and socialize and maybe get a bit of quilting done.