I'm feeling liberated!!

My scrap buckets are filled once again and I'm feeling....

LIBERATED!!!!

I always get this way after I finish a patterned quilt and I spent a good portion of my "sewing Sunday" just looking at books and admiring my fabric stash! 

Sometimes I still think I'm finding my quilting "style". I mean seriously, as along with feeling "so liberated" I was also thinking of making a Kim Diehl quilt for our master bedroom! (I am a total Gemini !!!) But that's me, always thinking of two projects at once...actually three as I also loaded one of the vintage Sun Bonnet Sues I've been commissed to quilt onto the quilting frame today.  LOL!!! I geuss that's why I love this hobby of ours so much....unlimited opportunities to be creative and self expressive! (Even if I did spend most the day just admiring the possibilities!)

Anyhoo....I'm grateful for the great week coming up! I only work two days this week (WAHOOOO!!!)....as hubby and I are flying out to visit my parents in Arizona! It's sooooo very odd for us to take a Fall Vacation....but we are way excited!!! Andddd...I literally dusted off my cabin applique and have it packed for the journey! THIS is going to be a winter project FOR SURE!!! You WILL see some progress on this quilt here on the ol' blog this Winter! (Note: my exclamitory commitment there! Yah me!) And my mom and I already have a "date" to visit her local quilt store! I can't wait! It's always fun to see new quilt stores from other parts of the country.

Tuesday Archives theme this week is: WILD things! I'm thinking wild animals, wild...out of the box creative quilting?? I think you guys know me well enough by the letter W, to know I'm pretty liberal with the definitions of my themes. Truly, thanks for having fun with me as we all dig through our archives to rejuvinate old posts every Tuesday. It's ALWAYS fun and inspiring!!

Just know, I'm grateful to all of you who are a part of my virtual quilting community.

November Cornucopia Wool Banner

I continue to enjoy stitching my adorable Lily Ana Stitches seasonal wool banners, especially on a cool, overcast, Fall morning like today. 

They measure 8x11 1/2 when finished and hang on this cute little stand on our fireplace when done. This little wool cornucopia is the November banner: 

I"m linking up with everyone else at Kathy's Quilts who are busy slow stitching too.

Dog Gone Cute Linky

A week of slow stitching helped me wrap up my Dog Gone Cute quilt:

The black binding and cute paw print backing finished it off just right.

And yes, my hubby thought since this quilt was made in honor of all our Jack Russells we've had over the past 27 years, he helped our little girl Cami get into the picture. Though she is completely blind,  don't let her fool ya, her sense of smell and hearing make up for EVERYTHING!

Thanks again to Lorna for creating such a fun pattern and blog parties to go along with it!

I'm looking forward to fixing myself a fresh cup of tea right now and visiting everyone else who has joined in this final linky party. Click here to check out everyone's creative pups! Oh and my DGC give-away is still open! Hop over to this post to enter if you haven't yet.

Tuesday Archives # 87: Quilting Gone WRONG!

Hello! Hello! and Happy Tuesday Archives! 

(You can also check out all our past Tuesday Archives themes by clicking right here.)

This week's theme is anything and everything that went WRONG! 

This week gives us a peek at lesssons learned as we share mistakes made while sewing/quilting this week. I mean I know none of you have been quilting along only to notice your tension is off,but.... 

Happy Halloween Weekend

Our little guy was a clown this year....and was a sticky mess by the end of the day.

We enjoyed our walks...crazy he's already out his stroller and riding his strider bike.

Look Grammy..."poop". (Can ya tell he's potty training!)

 And we played!

 Nothing like a weekend having the kids and this little guy home for a visit to rejuvinate my spirits!