Happy Halloween

Today, we’re making candy corn cookies.  Here is the website we found.  http://therecipegirl.blogspot.com/2008/10/candy-corn-cookies.html

I am expecting my friend from Sacramento and her sister today.  We’ll be making mended leaves (http://infohost.nmt.edu/~breynold/quilts/mendhart.html).  To speed things up, I quilted these up and some fabric to use as sashing.  Hopefully, we’ll make more with their fabric and ideas.  Two friends will be joining us also!

Here is a quilt my mother started.  She sent me all the hexagon blocks and I put them together on the way to and from Shasta this summer.  It is for my daughter’s 21st birthday Sunday.  The binding is now sewn down ~~ unlike in the picture.

Most Recent Hike

We hiked about 8 miles at University Falls in the coast range today with Scouts.  It was a glorious day!

This is looking into the water from a bridge.

Columbus Day

Here are a few recent finishes I am donating to our church’s Fall Festival.  After running the kitchen for 2000 dinners, I am now taking care of the quilt booth.  Funny, the ladies that have done it for years don’t want to run it, but want it done their way.  I’ll manage another year.   This is all left over fabric my mom had; the pattern is Hip to BEE Square and the pantograph is Splash.

 

Here is a little 30″ from orphan blocks from my dad’s quilt.  The pantograph is Flying Paisly.

Here is Hip to BEE Square Baby with Geometric Pinwheel.  I picked up the fabric at a vintage store in our downtown.  I know it’s not vintage, but someone wasn’t going to use it and I did!

Lastly, after our weekend at Boy Scout’s Order of the Arrow camp-out, we came back and made apple cider with friends on their 100+ year old press.  Here my son is with our friend.  Yes, that is a sink in a cabinet in the middle of their yard.  Pretty fun, huh???

Silver Falls State Park

Another great weekend ~~ this time at Silver Falls State Park with the Scouts for a campout.  We did a 6 mile hike and saw a lot of falls.  The boys worked on their Forestry Merit Badge.

Scout Quilt

Thanks to Kay www.myolivebranch.com I was alerted to the new line of Boy Scout fabric by Robert Kaufman.  Using an idea from my friend and her machine embroidery skills, and with a quilt by Cathy Kucenski from the Nov/Dec ‘06 issue of Quiltmaker, this is what I came up with…  This one is for our Committee Chair and I’ll make another for a Scoutmaster and one for my son.  Some of the trees have summer camps that the troop attended as well as the pack and troop number.  It is in the 65″ squarish range.  Now if he can just get that last merit badge signed off!!!