A couple of things

 I finally completely finished the wreath with the crows for our daughter. It’s just been sitting around waiting for a wire to be attached to the back to hang it. We are seeing her this week so I wanted to give it to her to hang on her door for Halloween. The wreath is hanging on the door to my sewing room in the photo.

The theme for my AI class this week was pumpkin. I decided to input my Halloween quilt as a starting point. It made a really great design from my quilt. I wish I would have had this idea before I finished my quilt top for the Halloween quilt. I like the path that looks like steps. I like how the pumpkins are arranged. I like the hills in the distance. I like the creepy mansion.  Of course the AI version started with a finished top. I’m not sure how that could have helped me in at the design stage.  Oh well….too late now! Although I have thought about making some changes to my original top. You know me….always over analyzing!

Here’s my photo.

Here’s the AI version.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Some progress on the Halloween bed quilt

 I cut lots of squares and started piecing the blocks. Here’s the quilt design in Electric Quilt.

Here’s what I have pieced laying out on my ironing board. The white fabric is a grunge fabric. Some of the Halloween fabrics I’ve had in my stash for a long time! 

I was not happy with the black cat silhouettes from Electric quilt so I made my own. Here are 4 of them. I’ve done 2 more, but I don’t have a photo of them to include in this blog. So after I piece the blocks I will start on the cat appliqué blocks. 

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Chris

Birthday gift arrived and she loved it.

I ended up making a witch gnome, pumpkin, tiny mouse, and my sister’s 2 cats. One cat is black and one is a calico. 

The cats are from this pattern. The witch is from this pattern. Here are some photos.

This was her reaction…. “Oh my gosh....how stinking adorable!  I love gnomes and have them for all the holidays.  Thank you so much and I love Dora and Callie.  Now I need to get out my Halloween decorations.  Thank you...thank you!”

She sent this photo to me.

So the gift was a success. Now to start planning the Christmas ornaments for our daughter.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Slow week

I did end up with Covid. The symptoms started last Friday so this has been a low key week. Most of them are gone at this point except my stomach is still upset and now my SI joints are inflamed and painful. The only thing I did was start my sister’s birthday gift. I can’t post anything since I think she reads my blog. Her birthday is mid September so I’m running behind. 

In my AI image class I had the image of the week for the second time. The theme was ships ahoy. This was my image. Below that image is my image for this weeks theme which is London fog. 

The photo challenge for the regular photo class this week was Song Title. Can you guess the title? It was hard getting motivated to take a photo this week so it’s not all that creative!

Thanks for reading.

Chris