A few more baskets and double 4 patches. I'm not sure I like the green with the directional print. That may have to go into a different quilt.
I cut down most of the peonies yesterday. It is supposed to be even warmer today, maybe get close to 70 degrees so I will go out and do a little more clean up. My neighbors have raspberry bushes so I always have a couple volunteer shoots coming up under a tree in my garden. I dug them out yesterday too.
on this quilt that reminds me of water, green vegetation and rocks. the blue parts will have gentle water ripples, and the green, either grass or leaves.
It is frosty again this morning but we have promises of high 60's today, so I have to get out and do the flower bed clean up today.
Here are the fixers. When the guy from the gas company came to mark where their line is on my property I was telling him I was glad the cable company was going to take care of burying the cable right away. He then proceeded to tell me about the houses he has marked 3 or 4 times, over several seasons that didn't get taken care of. 
I was so happy yesterday when the doorbell rang and they were here. They even listened to me when I said I thought the line should be buried near the driveway instead of right up the center of my lawn.
So now I am ready for winter without a cable laying across my sidewalk.
There are so many ideas of what to do with them.
I think I will leave it up on the design wall and see if inspiration hits.
I have some vintage fabrics that I need to sell. I can see vintage aprons made from them.
They are all 36" wide and I think they date from the 40's and 50's.
I have seen places on the Internet where this vintage sells for $20 a yard or more but I would be willing to sell for less than that.
The largest piece has 6 yards and several have 2 1/2 yards. If anyone is interested email me.
The sun is shining but we are having our coldest day so far this fall, in the 40's. (30's this morning)
It is sunny today, but windy. I need to trim my spirea bushes but I think I will wait for a warmer day. The art quilters are coming tomorrow, so I have 2 batches of cookies to bake. That will warm up the house a little.
Here it is all sewn together and trimmed. It ended up about 29.25" x 30.5".
And here it is with one that I made over a year ago. The older one is more orderly with all of the strip sets in a vertical position. The new one is more chaos. A lot of people told me the first one reminded them of books on a shelf.
Now I have to decide if I want to border this one. I could do it in the same fabric as the first since I still have more of those fabrics. I think the title of the new one should be "Orderly Chaos" since all of the seams of the sections are cut at right angles to each other. The chaos is the little bits that aren't necessarily straight.
So now I have to type the process in the reverse order. Here is what I am working on, with partial seams.
I haven't decided how to handle the last partial seams yet. I need to make the decision soon though because I do need the design wall to be empty.
The ones on the left and the right are Printed Treasures by Milliken. The pictures are much duller, the edges of the fabric had yellowed from shelf life at the store, but they were soft with the same feel as quilting fabric. A friend told me that they do fade with washing. I would probably use them in a wallhanging that wouldn't necessarily be washed.
Here are a few I rescued back out of that bag while I was looking for ones that contrasted with the green cutting mat (so they would show up in the photo).
OK, you encouraged me to "never mind" cleaning and have fun. I did hold off sewing though until evening while watching TV and made all of these groups. For those of you who think I agonize over color choices and placement, I have to say I only have one thing in mind when I pick up the next piece, contrast. It is either a light to dark contrast, or a color to color contrast. I am using whatever is in the bag of scraps, not cutting anything special. This is total relaxation making these little bits into something bigger.
What do I do with the little bits? This is one of the projects I have made. I took an 8" square of Wonder Under and put it glue side up on my press cloth. I place little bits until they totally covered the surface and extended off the edge a little. I pressed the pieces lightly to the Wonder Under.
Then I peeled off the paper and placed the square on top of another piece of fabric which would become its border and pressed with steam. Now everything is firmly held in place with raw edges here and there that might raise up a little as you are stitching. I then layer it with batting and backing and stitch, stitch, stitch, like in the book "On the Surface".
I will use this piece as a pocket on a tote bag.
And last night, kidding myself that I was cleaning off my sewing cabinet, I started piecing little bits together.
I don't know if you use little scraps, but when you think you are using up all of the little pieces, you end up creating more of them with the pieces you cut off. SO........I still have a mess on the sewing cabinet.
I cut the first square out of the part that is buckling. You can easily smooth out the area to cut one square.
The second cut is made in the next area that is pulling.
Now the rest of the strip set is laying flat enough to cut the rest of the squares out edge to edge.
Now I am trying to decide whether to cut up some of the blue and green sets I have made. Maybe the answer will come to me later today.
Phyllis, you asked me yesterday in your comment how wide I cut the strips for these sets. If you look closely you will see that they are wonky strips. They are the clean up cuts when I start cutting my batiks. Some of them may seem like an even width from one end to the other, but most aren't.
I like most of them to be less than 2" wide at the widest end, but now and then I will throw in a little wider one.
After I got home from computer club last night I watched a show that I had taped and made some multicolor strip sets. I am thinking about an August Journal quilt page.
Today I have someone coming to check on a roof leak by my chimney. I think the flashing just needs to be fixed. There is so much to do before winter.
then across the grass
and across my sidewalk. I have put a door mat over the cable on the sidewalk so I hope nobody trips over it. AND I haven't had an interruption in my internet service since they ran this cable.
The sun is shining but it is cold out. My heat came on this morning before I left to get my hair cut at 8 a.m.
The other project is another in the series of "My current favorite". I'm going to have to come up with a name for the series pretty soon. 
The honeysuckle bush has berries on it now. I'm glad my readers helped me identify the bush last spring.
My cable guy is coming this morning to see if he can solve my Internet problems. I have been having trouble all summer mostly between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. It doesn't sound like an equipment problem to me since it happens at the same time each day but they want to check it anyway. On Sunday I got home around 1 p.m and had no connection and it didn't come back on until 9:45 p.m. That was the longest outage and it has me furious that I am paying for something that is out during the prime day time.
Here is one of the redbud trees in all of it's fall glory. The leaves will fall quickly so I took a photo yesterday so I could remember it.
One little section of the viburnum bush has red leaves. This has only happened about 3 times in the 13 years since I planted the bush. Usually the green leaves just drop off.
I don't know how many of you read the comments that people leave on the blogs, but yesterday one comment really touched me. I showed the preemie layette items that I work on for my church and Jina left me a comment that made it all so real. We are all about numbers at the church circle, how many extra small, small, medium and large layettes that we have ready to deliver to the hospital. We work in a little production line, each with our own task. But Jina made it real for me that these are treasures for the parents. And she was right, we get a generic "Thanks for all you are doing" from the hospital but rarely if ever hear from a parent. Now I will be able to picture those tiny little babies as I work on the pieces and know that I have made a difference.
I am the only quilter in our church circle so I get all of the scraps from cutting the little jackets and I make them into patchwork quilts for the preemie ward.