September!

September is really my favorite month!  I love that the weather is becoming a bit cooler, the leaves are beginning to change colors, and that school is starting.  Well, that last one, not so much anymore, but we retired teachers don't really ever lose that "back to school" feeling!

So, I especially love having the opportunity to sew with the September colors of dark red and gold for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

At the beginning of every month, I really enjoy going through my scraps and stash and pulling fabrics that might be useful for that month's blocks.

Here are a couple of monkey blocks for September - always fun to make!

Sometimes it's fun to do a little fussy cutting for those 1 inch centers!  

Edited to add: Oops!  It wasn't until I actually published this post and looked at it later on my iPad that I realized the ABC monkey was not behaving!  So I got out the seam ripper, took it apart, and made it all better!  Can you tell what had to be fixed?

I also got a start this week on some 16 patch blocks - 

My plan to make 6 blocks every month will result in 60 completed blocks for this quilt, but I think I really need 63 to make a quilt that is 7 x 9 blocks.  That means it's time to start looking at what colors I might need more of to make a nice balance for the finished quilt.

I've made some blocks that actually read as red or yellow in other months - so I got them out to see how they were looking together.

That will be something to keep thinking about this month.

This was my fabric find of the week - moose and pinecones!  I've had this fat quarter for a long time, but never a place to use it.  It seems perfect for this month's blocks!

Hope you are having a lovely September!  I'm looking forward to seeing what the other RSC quilters have been up to this week at tomorrow's Scrap Happy Saturday link-up with Angela at SoScrappy!