Pin Basting and More Placemats

I added the binding to the placemats I made last week for Meals on Wheels.  Now, I have six completed placemats and I hope to make 12 for this project of the Oxford Quilter's Guild.  

This week, I started four more placemats and I have fabric pulled for a couple more.  I need to piece some more batting scraps to quilt the rest of them and pick out binding fabrics. Sorry, no picture of the 4th one. 

I finished off the last few stitches in the blue quadrant this week and started on the border of the green section to the left.  More details will emerge as I add more stitches this week.  The wonky border to the right of the fox is actually straight--it just isn't lying flat in the picture.  

I also added the outer border to the potato chip quilt I am making for the Hospice and got it pin basted.  I will be quilting this one myself with my walking foot.  

These begonias on my front porch have been blooming happily all summer.  

My husband and I went for a walk in Port Stanley as the sun was setting one evening this week.  The lake was calm and the seagulls were showing their stuff. 

Our hike with the hiking club was at the Fingal Wildlife Management area.  The leaves are just starting to turn in our area.  It felt like we were walking in a tunnel!

Finn, as usual, is a happy boy, especially when he gets to go outside!

I will link up with Kathy and Frederique.  

Placemats for Meals on Wheels

 Once again, the Oxford Quilt Guild is making placemats for Meals on Wheels recipients for distribution at Christmas.  They are due at our December meeting but I decided to get going on mine right away and get them done!  I dug into my fabric stash to see what I had--so many possibilities!  We are to make one side Wintery and the other side to be used for the rest of the year. So far, I have put together and quilted six placemats--the binding will go on this week. 

I found a few orphan blocks that I can use to make some more placemats before the deadline.  These are great projects using larger prints as well as leftover batting --I piece it using a zigzag stitch. 

On Wednesday night, I went as a guest to the Ancaster Modern Guild meeting.  The speaker was Christine of Tesselate Textiles.  Christine and I each made a quilt using her Whistlestop pattern a couple of years ago. I brought my quilt along to the meeting to show Christine and for a photo op!

I made great progress on my cross stitch project--I am almost finished this quarter of picture.  I will add more stitches to the top picture tomorrow for slow Sunday stitching. 

Finn loves to get comfy on top of all of the pillows on the couch. 

My daughter reorganized her bookshelves this week and Finn helped by keeping the piles in place. 

The cream coloured crochet blanket has 9/42 rows done now.  

My husband and I went on a couple of hikes this week--one on our own at Pinery Provincial Park where we saw this interesting plant.  It is a Strawberry bush.  It has very interesting seed pods.  

A view from one of the trails at the Pinery. 

The next day, we hiked with the Elgin Hiking club and I saw an interesting bug -- this is a spotted cucumber beetle.  Amazing what you see when you look closely. 

In my garden, my aster plant produced magenta flowers this week.  On the same plant, there are white and pale pink flowers as well. 

Have a great week.  I will link up with Kathy and Frederique, as usual.