Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! Our daughter and Finn are here for the weekend and we had a turkey dinner with my husband's family today. I put out my pumpkin decorations this week. I even raked some leaves--it really feels like fall now with cooler temperatures and the trees changing colour.
I'm adding another tree to the Forest cross stitch picture. It looks a bit odd now but will look better when it is all filled in.
Finn came with us to the farmer's market this morning and I managed to get him to pose in front of the pumpkins, but only very briefly!
We can see his eyes now that he has had a haircut.
I have completed the 12 placemats that I am donating to Meals on Wheels. Here are the fronts--you can see I made some matching sets which might go to a couple. The second picture shows the backing fabrics.
Here are the two that I finished this past week.
These two pictures were taken when my husband and I went for a walk in the park one morning this past week.
The program committee at the Oxford Quilter's Guild has started a colour challenge. Everyone has been encouraged to pick a block and then make it in a different prescribed colour each month. The green block was for September and the orange one for October. I am keeping this project very simple as I have a lot of other projects that I want to move along to the finish line this fall as well as a new quilt I want to start.
My daughter has joined another crochet along and made one of the corners this week to check her gauge.
Back at the beginning of the Summer, I mentioned I was working on a secret project. I made this potato chip quilt using shirt fabric for my cousin. He received the quilt in September and sent me a picture of him with the quilt this week. He really likes it and was very surprised to receive it. He has already used his quilt several times--this makes me happy.
One of the things I really wanted to do on our recent vacation was a trip on the Agawa Canyon train out of Sault Ste Marie. We bought out tickets months ahead of time and although it was a cloudy day, thoroughly enjoyed our day--lots of fall colour and three waterfalls at the Canyon to see when the train stopped. If you have never taken this trip, I highly recommend it! We were there the last week of September and the colours were at their peak.
I will be adding more stitches to my cross stitch project for Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy. I will also link up with Frederique.
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