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Monday, October 27, 2025

Design Wall Monday - October 27, 2025

Good Morning Quilters!


This is our front yard this week. We are at the peak of fall color, and enjoying every minute of it.  

We drove to East Lansing for the MSU vs U of M football game Saturday, and the view of the colorful trees on the trip was beautiful.  While riding in the car, I worked a little on this UFO of red work embroidery.  Most of the time I was looking out the window at the color show.   The red work will be a quilt of alphabet letters and winter snowmen and Christmas scenes.  This block has E for elf and F for fir trees.


The crocheted pumpkins are all stuffed and have their cinnamon stick stems.  I may make more - they make me happy.


This football game trip was a nostalgic one.  We’ve been going to MSU football games since 1965, and have decided to stop going to games in person next year.  At our age, (82 and 83) we will be watching games in future seasons from our living room.  Part of the issue is that now college football games are starting at different times than they used to.  For television coverage money, some games start in the evening.  The game Saturday started at 7:30 PM.  When we started going to games, the starting game time was usually noon or early afternoon.  

Here is a picture of some of MSU’s marching band, which sounds so good every game!  They are so dedicated.  We, for old times sake, went to the band practice field, and watched the band members get ready by sections, and then gather to march to the stadium.  We used to do this before every game, when my knees were much younger.


Here is a composite picture of us from various games over the years.


Some parts of getting older are sweet, and some parts are bittersweet.  

What has been happening in your life?  I hope some good quilty things.  I am still not in the quilt room much right now, but that always changes.  I shall be hit with quilt enthusiasm again.  It always happens.   

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Monday, October 20, 2025

Design Wall Monday - October 20, 2025

 Good Morning Quilters!

This week has been busy, as usual.  I didn’t get much work done on my quilting UFOs.  However, I did work on some crafty things.  Here are the little crocheted pumpkins that I was working on.  I used cinnamon sticks for the stems, and added a little curled part of a grapevine from my woods.  These will look cute as decorations from now through Thanksgiving.  The directions are free on the internet on several sites.



The second “non UFO” project I worked on this week:  I am making a Christmas stocking for a little girl.  Her Grandmother is a friend of mine and she brought over several of her cute baby clothes from her first Christmas (which was last year).  We cut out pieces from them and I stabilized them with a backing. 

We got as far as making a general plan on how the pieces will fit onto the stocking shape.  Next I will sew pieces together and make a patchwork stocking.for this Christmas.  Here’s one side:


I think this “a stocking from a baby’s first Christmas clothes” is a new fad, and I had not heard of it before now.  I see that it is popular on Etsy sales.   Here is the other side:



This last picture is a sample of what our trees look like around here.  I love fall.



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Monday, October 13, 2025

Design Wall Monday - October 13, 2025

Good Morning Quilters! 

In the United States, Columbus Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October.    Although Indigenous People’s Day is not an official federal holiday, some states celebrate our Native American Indian culture on this day, and some states celebrate and honor both.  

As a retired lady, every day is similar to the day before and the day after.  I just have to remember that the banks and the post office are closed on a holiday.  My sewing machine is open and ready for business every day.  And for that I am thankful.  However I am observing my own kind of quilting holiday……………not much quilting was done this past week.  

I have lost my quilting mojo again.  The weather has been so beautiful, and all the sun shine, all the flowers outside, all the acorns crunching under my feet….these lovely things have kept me away from my quilting projects.  Please carry on without me until I recover.

Here is my design wall with no progress on blocks this past week:


There are nine blocks on each of the two borders left to make, so this is what I will be working on when my quilting mojo returns.

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Monday, October 6, 2025

Design Wall Monday - October 6, 2025

Good Morning Quilters!

Well, I’m home from vacation……but not very productive yet.  As I get older, I find my old body requires more maintenance.  This last Thursday, I had fatty tissue removed from my upper eyelids (so my eyeballs can see better).  Everything went successfully, but I am puffy and black and blue while I heal.  So now that I’ve had cataracts taken off, and the upper eyelids tightened up, I think I’m good to go in the eye department for a while.  

But while all of that necessary maintenance is great, I haven’t sewed all week.  So today, I will post one of my favorite fall quilts.  It is named “Third Weekend in October”.  The pattern is by Ruth Powers and looks harder than it really is.   I made it while I lived in Williamsburg, VA.

Here is the pattern picture from her website.  I am sorry to see it is no longer available.


Here are pictures of my quilt…..first a picture of the top on the floor, taken from the balcony of the cabin above it:


On the couch in Williamsburg, VA, showing the very orange back side:


Over the railing more recently in our house here in Michigan.



This quilt was my first attempt at free motion quilting, and it was fun to make “veins” in the leaves.   One leaf with quilting closeup:


Hopefully, next week I will be able to talk about a current quilt, or at least have pictures of current quilt blocks to show you. 

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