Hello October!

October!  Hooray!! It's finally October!  My favorite month by far!!  You, too?

I spent all morning putting away my Back to School stuff, and putting out my Halloween decor! 

It's like seeing old friends, each time I pull out favorite things from Halloweens long also...when my boys were little and October was so magical and fun!  

Hocus Pocus, The Halloween Tree, The Worst Witch and The Great Pumpkin have all been on the player in my sewing room for days now!!

This October will be extra special, as our first grandchild will be born any day!! This little man will be born in the same month as his Daddy, my younger son Anthony!  So very many reasons for October to stay a most beloved month!!

Our local quilt guild had a summer challenge where we were given a page from one of those A Block A Day calendars.  We could make whatever we wanted using that block.  One option was to make the block in red, white and blue colors to be made into Quilts of Honor for our Veterans, so this was that block!

I also made four other blocks in fall fabrics, fussy cutting the centers, which I made into a table runner for my dear sister, Sally, who lives nearby.

She loves toile and I found a cool fall toile to use for the background and backing!!!

I also forgot to show you this cute Zebra quilt I made and finished the night before the baby shower we gave my dear DIL, Leah!

It was super fun to make!  Love using all those greys and blues for our little man on his way!! 

Well, gotta close for now, so I can shower and get ready for a lecture and trunk show by Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably that I'm going to tonight!! 

Yogi wants to know if you are excited about October, too!?! 

A Twofer and a Nametag

We normally have our local guild meetings every second Thursday evening of each month during the school year from September through June, as we meet in a nearby elementary school cafeteria.

However, sometimes we have to move the date due to something going on at the school … like this month!  Our first meeting is this Thursday…and it just dawned on me that I had not done anything with our summer challenge fat quarter! 

At the same time, I received an invite to a dear friend’s daughter’s house warming…sooooo, this little project turned out to be a “Twofer”.  I love Twofers, don’t you??

I used some batik charm squares along with the purple batik fat quarter given for the summer challenge, to make a table runner that I can show at the guild meeting in two days…

and then it will be a gift, along with a matching candleholder and autumn candle, for the housewarming gift!!  YAY!!  A Twofer!! 

Then, after making the table runner yesterday and going out this morning to find the candle holder and candle, I got home to remember that I wanted to make a new guild name tag.  The one I had was made in 2000 and is beyond grody!!!  Yucko!!  Time for a new one!!!  So, I spent this afternoon making a new one!!

I saw this one on Pinterest and thought it was so cute!

(http://megsmonkeybeans.blogspot.com/2012/02/petite-piecing.html)  So that gave me the idea to make my nametag with a sewing machine on it!

I snagged this logo off the Bernina newsletter to use as my inspiration!!

I used graph paper to  plan out my little sewing machine block.

Then went through my stash scraps to find the perfect fabrics in fun colors.

I knew I wanted to attach it to this cute sewing themed pin, which would make it easy to put on!

It was really fun to create…and not a hard as I thought it would be with such tiny pieces.

I am pleased with how it turned out and will be ready on Thursday now for our guild meeting!!

Sooooo, whatcha working on???