Bits and Pieces

My September darks and October lights are finished for the patchwork heart project.  It has been really enjoyable to work with fall colors - browns, tans, golds, and whatever else fit in!

This group of blocks still needs one more heart and one more alternate block.  So I decided to make an additional four patch block in greens since there are two green hearts.  The four patches are made for it.  I used some very light greens for this one.

And then it was decision making time for the final heart.  And here's what I came up with -  a very random mixture of all the colors!  I'm seeing this as the center heart with all the other colors coming out from it.  It's not sewn together yet, but you can get the idea.  Those HSTs that look black are actually a dark green.

Hopefully in the next week, I can get these last two blocks sewn up and try some layout ideas for these blocks!

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.

I Like Thursday #408

I like October!  I like the Colorado landscape this time of year.

Saturday we went up to a mountain park west of us and took a picnic lunch.

Such a beautiful day!

I enjoy seeing flowers still blooming at our sculpture park.

I love pumpkins and especially baked things made out of pumpkin, and especially when I actually grew the pumpkin!  Yesterday, I roasted one of the little pie pumpkins that I grew in my garden this summer - 

And made some pumpkin bread out of it!  Yum!

I use a recipe that I got from Carole at From My Carolina Home.

It has orange zest in it - I love the fresh flavor it gives to the bread.

Carole, thinking of you and your husband and neighbors 

as you deal with the destruction of Hurricane Helene.  🩷

LeeAnna's question of the week is about corn mazes- do we like them, have we done one?  And I have to admit that I have not ever been in a corn maze.  I've always been a little afraid that I would never find my way out, lol!  We did love hiking around in the redwood forests in California on our trip last month, and they feel a bit like mazes!

We did eventually find our way out, although there were a few moments when we weren't quite sure where we were!

Joining in with I Like Thursday at Not Afraid of Color.

 

Midweek Update

Back in July, I posted that I decided to make Bonnie Hunter's County Clare blocks as leaders and enders this second half of the year, and I've continued to work on them.  They're really cute blocks, but have lots of little parts!  Consequently,  I am making them very slowly.

They do work well as leaders and enders, though, so I make a few parts of a block whenever I have some scraps that will work.

I'm up to nine of these little blocks now.  😜  

Linking up with Quiltfabrication for Midweek Makers.