There's a fall feel in the air around here. The afternoons are still warm, but evenings and mornings are very cool. My garden is just about finished, too. We've enjoyed those tomatoes I picked last week, and I made one last batch of pickles from the cucumbers.
This pot of flowers is still happy, though. Maybe because I gave it a fertilizer boost a few weeks ago when we were going to be having some family over for a backyard picnic.
We took a little trip to the Celestial Seasonings Tea factory in Boulder the other day. Our son had never been there before, and has been enjoying having a cup of tea every evening when he's working. There's an interesting factory tour and then a shop, of course. The tour costs $5 and then they give you that much off a purchase in the store. We got $15 to spend in the store so came home with several boxes of their tea.
A week ago or so, I pulled this old quilt book off my shelf and started looking through it. Its copyright is 1993! The quilts are very country style, which isn't necessarily me, but I do love to make little quilts. I wasn't even a quilter in 1993 - I think a friend must have passed this book on to me from her stash.
I got to this one ⬇️ and decided I wanted to make it! I've been seeing framed 9 patches on different blogs, and like the look of them, so why not?!
I used some browns I had out from making
the journal cover a couple weeks ago, plus a couple fall prints I bought recently (one of them has an aqua background color!), and a cream Grunge for the setting triangles.
And fussy cut a sunflower for the center!
This measures 14.5 inches square right now, and there's a two inch border to add yet.
It's been a fun little project to sew on in between other things!
(A bunny was hanging out with me when I took this picture - can you see him there out in the grass? I'm sure he was wondering what I was up to!)
What have you been up to this week?