More Illinois autumn...........

I was looking out the window as I sat at my computer and wondered what these yellow leaves were.  I went out to investigate and they are on my forsythia bush.  I don't think I have ever seen them with such bright red veins before.

 Here is another group of them deep inside the bush.  

The Viburnum is the next bush along the way and it had just a few leaves turning red.

I'll have to keep checking them to see if they turn darker red.

I'm not sure what this one is.  The petals are pale lavender and very skinny.  It is past its peak of prettiness.  I don't remember it ever being in the back garden before.  The leaves don't look like Asters but the flowers have that same delicate look.

This is a bloom on one of the green leaf Coral Bells.  I don't have the old fashioned green leaf/coral flower Coral Bells any more.  I think I'll look for them next year.

I decided the tall stack of Kaffe Fassett fabric wasn't going to put itself away so I spent a few hours on it.  While I was at it if I had 2 pieces of one of the fabrics I saved out the smaller one and I realized most of them were falling into the fall range of colors.  I just might have to make something out of them.

Still surfing the books..........

I'm still gathering ideas for what to cut out next.  I like this quilt a lot but it is square and I would like it to be rectangular so I would just use the idea but figure out all of the measurements on my own.  I love pinwheels and I love the colors in this quilt.

The other style quilt I'm drawn to is the simple medallion with just plain border after plain border instead of pieced ones.  Again I love the colors and I have a lot of these fabrics but would probably add in a couple substitutes.

I'm still doing a lot of clean up outside getting ready for the painter next month.  Rain is predicted Sun.- Wed. next week and it isn't a lot of fun to be chopping down volunteer tree shoots and pulling weeds while it is wet out.  I can get to the studio once the rain starts, and we really need the rain.

 

Fall is here...........

 When my live broadcast was done yesterday afternoon I walked out to the living room and looked out the window to this glorious sight.  It seems like the trees just start changing suddenly.  This tree wasn't this pretty last year.

I decided to take pictures of all of the pretty blooms in my yard.  These 3 were dug out of my front garden last year when I tried do irradicate the invasive ground covers.  They wintered over just fine in the pots and will stay this way until next year.

I never know what color the asters will be because they keep re-seeding and I had 2 colors originally.  They keep coming up in different places.

These were next to the other color asters.  They aren't as dark of a purple as previous years.

I have Sedum planted in 3 places and 2 in pots.

This is 2 kinds of Sedum planted next to each other and I see I missed a Goldenrod when I was pulling it out early in the summer.

And that concludes my little garden walk late afternoon yesterday.

More new Kaffe fabric...........

New Kaffe Collective fabrics are calling my name.  You know how it is, when you don't have time to start a new quilt all kinds of ideas float through your head.  I want to do something with pinks and burgundies but I haven't chosen a pattern yet.

 I have my first live broadcast today so I'm hoping for a good hair day, ha ha.  I hope all of my students have registered on the site for the broadcast.

Indoors and outdoors..............

 Inside I am gathering and preparing for my first live session for my Colorwash 360 class.  This is my backdrop for the first broadcast.

This is the photo I posted last year that shows my computer and mic set up with my camera mounted on top of my computer.  We needed a higher quality camera than the one included in the laptop.  This is sitting on my sewing cabinet and I usually leave it here during the weeks of all 6 live sessions so my sewing during that time is usually on smaller items unless I sew on one of the machines in the basement.

Outside I mowed the yard in 2 sessions.  I decided to do the backyard after it cooled down a little.  It was only 75 degrees but sunny so it was warm while mowing at cardio speed.

A finish for September...........

I showed this quilt a few weeks back and mentioned all it needed was about 1/4 of the binding to be hand sewn down after 12 years.......of waiting patiently.  Last night it got its last stitch.  It is 43" square from point to point.

This one is made of the earliest Hoffman batiks like another that I made last year.  Purple, gray, pink and turquoise were in most of the early ones.

 

There were a few gray-greens in the early ones too.  I love this little quilt and the binding is not the best job I ever did on a quilt but it was a tricky miter in miter out binding so I can live with it.

Go here to see the large quilt I finished with the same edge (scroll down to second photo).  I have learned my lesson, I don't need to ever finish the edge of another one like this.

I was in such a hurry to take this photo and get to the eating part that the photo is a little fuzzy, mainly because of low light in that area of the counter.  I thought I had gotten a little too much chocolate in my bowl but then I remembered there is no such thing as too much chocolate.

Searching for candidates..............

Sometimes the fabrics I pull as candidates for my solids with prints quilts don't end up working, mainly because the scale of print is too large.  I think the bicycles will only work on one of the quilts.

I think all of these will end up the remaining 3 quilts.

The print on the left will work but the other 2 are pretty large prints.  I will still audition them.

I think these are the right scale to work in at least two of the quilts.

It is warming up a little more each day so I think my yard work will be earlier in the day and I'll press and cut some of these fabrics in the afternoon.  I got all of the branches trimmed from the back of the lilac bushes yesterday.  I also dug out a small forsythia volunteer bush and cut all of the branches off of another one.  I gave up trying to dig out the root on the second one.  By another window it was all Rose of Sharon bushes that needed to be removed.