I finished this fall quilt a couple of weeks ago it seems. I meant to take photos, but it hadn't been washed, then we got thirty inches of snow, and I really didn't want to take photos of my fall quilt in the white blizzard yard. It has taken a full week for the the snow to melt. Actually there are still big piles left, but I was able to find a green spot.
I love this quilt. I don't often make quilts on a whim anymore. I used to. Maybe because I never used to have twelve quilts going on at once. So starting a new project was fine. Now with my mile long to do list I have to behave.
I love that we have a seasonal quilt for the fall now. I used fabrics I had in my stash or scraps, bought a bit of Kona Natural for the background and I love the way it turned out. Just in-case you want to make this quilt I used 4.5 inch squares to make the leaf-and for the stem I sewed two 3.5 inch natural squares on the 4.5 inch print square the way you make
snowball corners. I think the proportions works well.
I bought my backing at Hancock. It is perfect.
I'm not sure how much you've heard about the blizzard here but it was pretty bad. A lot of cattle was killed. So many trees were lost. Many people have spent the last week without power. Our two trees in the front of the house were hit pretty hard. One was a total loss. It's been very sad for us. However today I realized now I can get a great shot of our new paint job.
Painting and homeschooling really took it's toll on my sewing time in September. I feel like I lost an entire month.
This was how the house looked the week we bought it,
This is how it looks now with new paint and a lost tree. Much different eh?
