Midweek Update

Block #21 for Melva's Pieces of My Life QAL was posted last week and I had a chance to sew it up over the weekend.  It is a maple leaf - one of my favorite blocks to make!  To go along with the maple leaf, our reminiscing is all about Fall.

Fall has always been my favorite season!  Especially September, even though Fall technically doesn't come along until the third week of the month, because September is the month of school starting.  I loved school growing up and always wanted to be a teacher - which I became and taught at various grade levels for the 30 years of my working career.  For most of the years of my career, I taught 5th grade at our neighborhood school, which my boys also attended from K - 5th. 

   

Fall is also the time of changing leaves and beautiful colors, which we all enjoy seeing.  In Colorado we don't have a lot of maple trees, but we do have the amazing aspen trees that give the mountains such a beautiful golden color.  That's why I made my maple leaf gold!

I do have to share this photo I took while out on my neighborhood walk yesterday.  Is this a maple leaf?  I'm not even sure - but it fits right into this post!

As a teacher, I both loved and dreaded Halloween, lol!  It was a fun day at our school with everyone dressed up in costumes, all the classes parading through the school for a Halloween parade, and a party at the end of the day.  We were all exhausted by 4:00!    As a mom, it was fun helping our kids come up with their costumes.  For boys, it was so easy to use sweat shirts and pants as the base and add extra things to them to create the costume.  Here is older son dressed as Darth Vader (sweatshirt with felt pieces sewn on and a simple cape I made) and younger son as a football player with a hand me down football helmet from some friends whose boy outgrew it.

Hard to believe this is the 21st block I've made for this project - that means (I think) there are only three more!  I've also gotten the blocks for section 3 of the quilt sewn together, and ready to sandwich for quilting.  I'll be working on that step in the next few days.

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