Happy Fall to Everyone!

 

Happy Fall to everyone!  I found this darling platter at the grocery store of all places.  I love it!  It adds so much ambience to the room.

This is my mantle so far.  I'm waiting for my two grandsons (ages 7 and 5) to come and make decorations for Halloween/Fall.  The are so delightful and stinkers all in one.

I decided I wanted to make a fall bouquet for my living room wall.  I'm not much for flower arranging but I'm willing so I picked out flowers at Hobby Lobby, bought some of the spongy stuff to stick them in, found a little bling and got to work.  I found the basket at CF Furniture in Gardner Village.

I found a large doily that my mother made, folded it in 1/2 and it adds nice contrast to the flat hanging basket.  There is enough basket leftover that I'd like to find a photo or quote to hang there.  There is a 'Welcome' plaque under the doily but it's too dark to really notice.

If you look closely on the right you'll see a little mouse that I added for whimsy.

And here it is above the couch in my living room.  I think it will be fun to change the flowers etc. for different seasons.  And I'd like to roll up a row of little quilts to put inside as another idea.

As far as quilting goes, I've been trying to catch up on the Mystery SAL in my quilting group.  I picked New Mexico colored fabric from my stash.  At least they look New Mexico to me . . .   I made one of the strips to finish the outside border.

I have seven more strips to go.  I cut out all the colored squares today and need to cut out all the backgrounds next.  And then it will be done.

I finished "Big Stitching" my flying geese quilt.  It time to do the binding around this 88" square quilt.  It's going to take a while.  The temperatures have been dropping and this is for my bed so I'm motivated to get it done.

A lady gave daughter #2 boxes of old fabric she didn't want any more.  I was invited to come over and look through it.  I found this 1/2 yard print by Debbie Mumm in one box.  I still love Debbie Mumm Fall and Christmas things so I was excited to find it.  I'd like to make it into a little wall hanging but I have no plans yet.  I'm thinking it would look cute to just surround the big piece with blocks.  We'll see.

I've made a little more progress with my hexagon quilt.  It's so hard to show much progress with projects like this.

 This is a picture of my "Rolling Office".  It's really the kitchen table but it's what I always use for computer work (it's where I'm sitting now) and the rolling cart contains everything I need.  I can roll the cart into the bedroom when not in use.  

I'll close with my husband's (the garden gnome) harvest of pumpkins this year.  It always makes me happy to see them all together.  I probably should have taken the picture in the early morning when the sun shines in on them  but I didn't think of it till this afternoon so it's in the shade.

 

I hope you're having a lovely fall and Happy Thanksgiving to you if you live in Canada.

Robin