Working on the binding....................

I have started the hand stitching on the binding but didn't finish it last night.

Earlier in the day I finished the third of the last 3 dishcloths I had on the needles.  Now I can start 3 more.

The big beautiful tree across the street lost all of its leaves on the last few windy days.  My tree in the backyard turns color later so it still has a lot of leaves.  This is the view from the north.

This view from the south shows a lot more bare spots because the wind was from the south.

There are lots of leaves on the ground.  In the foreground of this photo is a Hosta that you can see was nipped by a heavy frost or a freeze, not sure which we had a couple nights ago.  There are some hostas still standing in more sheltered areas but I think they will all be gone after this weekend.

 

Quilting a table runner........................

This is the last of the table pieces I had prepped for quilting last week.  It is now quilted and ready to be trimmed.  I'll pick a binding fabric today.

The backing fabric isn't one produced in Australia but uses a lot of the same motifs in the Aboriginal prints.

I brought all of my geraniums into the garage yesterday.  I usually save them every winter and then replant them in spring.

First finish for November 2025....................

The 16 patch made with Nancy Crow fabrics is finished.  This looks like a perfect fall and winter quilt to me.  It is 62" x 78.5".

The backing is also a Nancy Crow fabric.  This was my goal, to only use her fabrics for the whole quilt.  I used Hobbs 80/20 batting and it was quilted by Robin Diaz.

I still have a considerable amount of Nancy's fabric but I have been mixing some of it into my color stacks.  I have a pile of quarter yards I cut while I was cutting for this quilt so I might make another with these fabrics.  I don't have an idea for a pattern yet so it is on the back burner.

I brought my pot of petunias into the garage last night because it was predicted to be at or below 32.  I will put the pot back outside when it is safe and enjoy it a little longer.

Binding complete.....................

First thing yesterday I chose and cut the binding for the  16 patch quilt made with Nancy Crow fabric.

With 3 hours of NCIS to watch I got the binding sewn on and finished by machine.

Now it is ready to photograph and measure, today's task.

Petunias are still blooming but there is a hard freeze coming over the weekend.  I hope I remember to pull this pot into the garage.

There are a few of the white with black veins petunias blooming too and that pot is too heavy to lug to the garage.

Inside I have my first cactus bloom.  This was one of the new plants I bought last year and I had never seen a white with pink edging on the petals before.  It was in a medium size pot and when I decided to split it, I found 3 plants in the pot.  They all got planted in new pots and the other 2 have buds now too.

 

Monday progress...............

Yesterday morning I looked for bindings for the mug rugs.  I was matching to the backs because the fronts are multicolor and almost anything would go with them.

I cut the bindings for all 7 of the mug rugs.

This table mat is 12" square so that meant one strip plus just a small amount from a second strip with 2 seams near each other.  Instead I used a piece of this stripe which was cut on the lengthwise grain and was longer than 48".  It was leftover from binding on a large quilt a few years ago.

Last night I sewed the binding on the mug rugs.  These are all around 7.75" x 9.5".

I had time to finish the last 3 by the time the 10 o'clock news was over.

The 2 larger ones are 8" x 9.5" and the small one is 7.25" x 8.5".

I chose binding for the Nancy Crow fabric quilt and cut the strips.  I hope to get that finished today.

It's binding time...................

The 16 patch quilt made with Nancy Crow fabric has been trimmed now and I'll look for binding today.  The red stripe is the only Nancy Crow fabric that I had large yardage of so it ended up being the backing.

I ended up with a variegated 30 wt. thread for the quilting of mug rugs and a table mat.

First I quilted the 4 mug rugs that are the same size and then trimmed them to prepare for binding.

They will be nice used backing side up too.

I decided the same thread would work on the Kaffe fabric table mat and got it quilted and trimmed too.

I had a fat quarter of this Kaffe print and thought it would make a nice backing for the table mat.

Outside, I cut down all of the Sungold tomato dead plants and brought the tall cages into the garage for the winter.  Now all of the tomato plant area is cleared but I still have some peonies to cut down.  It's supposed to get up to low 60s a few days this week so it will be a good time to get it done.  They are talking 40s for next Sunday.  

Trimmed and ready to quilt............

I had chosen backing fabric for these mug rugs over a week ago but hadn't trimmed them yet.  Yesterday was trimming and layering day.

This set of four got trimmed and layered too.  Now I need to decide on thread color(s).  It would be nice to chose one color to quilt all seven of them.

i haven't done as much knitting in the last week but last night I finished the second one in the set of three that I had started.  This is the first time I've used this lavender and white yarn.

My neighbor helped dig some Sedum plants that were near our lot line a couple weeks ago.  She is going to put in a fence for her dogs and we were afraid the plants would get trampled.  They had already been chopped into by the crew that cleared her lot line.  I planted them yesterday in several pots.  They are a hard plant to kill so we'll see if they survive being planted so late (and close to winter).  I have had them in pots over the winter before and they always did ok.