Into the Autumn Woods

Sneaky peak of my Autumn Woods project.

<3 I love these fabrics <3

They almost look woven in this close-up photo.

I am almost ready to start quilting.

Finished mini quilt coming soon!

:-) 

A Hand Work Project

a fall handwork project

 

Last month I started embroidering leaves on this quilt top.  I am stitching free style leaves with perle cotton.  This is not quilting as I am only stitching through 2/3rds of the quilt sandwich, the top and the batting.  The batting will hide my knots and such from the surface of the quilt. I will be adding a cotton backing fabric and machine quilting in the sashing and borders and maybe around the leaves.

 

 

This is top was my August Schnibble last year. 

I blogged about it here

 

 

... and about the method I used for adding the sashing to the blocks
as I went along here.

 

At that time I had a specific idea for a pieced backing that never got made.  For the backing now I will probably go for a one fabric in in a fall print.  At the time, my friend Delia suggested a leaf pattern for the quilting in the background squares.  The more I thought about it; the more I thought about it.  It was a very good suggestion! At some point the idea of machine quilted leaves blew away and the hand embroidered leaf idea took root. 

 

I find simple hand stitching very restful.

I need an easy project that I can pick up and put down.

As I count down the days to my eye surgery next week, I am just puttering around in my sewing room and this project is keeping my hands busy and I am enjoying the pretty fall colors.  This project will take me quite some time as I am a slow hand stitcher. 

More pictures much later.

 

Have a happy quilty day!

 

~ <3 ~

 



The Pumpkin Scrapatch

 

Kitty in the Pumpkin Patch

 

My tuxedo kitty, Butterfly, looks like a black cat from the back,

so this is her quilt.

 

 

It is a wall hanging so she does not get to curl up on it much, but

 she always finds it and gets as close as she can.

 

I love everything about fall ... the colors ... the leaves ... the crisp apples on the trees ... the pumpkin patches ... the scarecrows and cornstalks ... fall mums ... corn mazes ... and, of course, Fall Quilts!

 

Sew I was very happy to find this fun fall themed blog hop today! 

 

 

Quilts in the Pumpkin Patch
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Sunshine in the Attic
 

There are some great tutorials in the links and some fun giveaways.

 It is the last day so blog hop to it so you do not miss out!

 

I am not participating in this hop, just enjoying the show

and planning future projects.

I make at least one quilt for fall every year to make my home

cozy and quilty for the cooler weather.

 

These are some of my older quilts.

 

 

This is also one of my first fall quilts.

 

 

The center is a panel.

The border was my first attempt at flying geese.

 

 

I quilted this on my old Brother machine and it was one of my early home quilting efforts.I added a little extra batting under the pumpkins to make them a rounded.

 

I made this quilt last year and blogged about it Here

 

I made freezer paper quilt stencils to quilt this one.

 Tutorial on how I made the freezer paper templates
 and quilted it may be found Here

 

 

Here is a close up of the quilting.

 

Here is a sneak peek at this years' quilt ...

 

 

 

Come back in October as I will be showing you soon for the

 

 

Wicked Blog Hop @ Sew We Quilt
There is a fun 60's Hop happening there now!

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my fall quilts!

 

Today in my blog reading, I also found some pretty seasonal clip art for quilters. To see more, Click Here.
Thanks for this Free Fall Clipart to Sew Cal Gal 

Have a Happy Quilty Blog Hopping Day!

:-)