Perking up on a Slow Sunday...

Hello- well last Sunday I was dragging but things have gotten better... I slept A LOT... and I think it helped... and I've actually gotten some things done...not as much as I wanted to... but then I NEVER get everything done that I want to...LOL

First off I finished the Teresa Kogut Faith, Hope, Peace and Love sampler that was a Patreon purchase. 

Now I've had to play with the color in this pic... why do iphones have such trouble with green fabrics? And why do I stitch on so much green fabric?  oh well... this is pretty good... I picked out a nice brown burl frame at Hobby Lobby... fingers crossed I'm happy with the framing when it is done.

And since I finished that I decided to treat myself to a new start... I've been seeing lots of cute Halloween stuff... and Darlene you know I'm talking about you... so I got out some linen I had previously painted and added some purple splotches for good measure and started this one... Sprout from Notforgotten Farm...

too cute!! So then I picked up Boo Berries...

Took about 2 nights of stitching to complete each one of these.... I have one more little scrap of blotchy fabric that I want to do Oswald on. 

A friend prodded me to get  the binding on some of those quilts I have languishing... one a week she said... and I did!! I picked the smallest one... this my American Jane Spool quilt...

the pattern is from the Sew Emma book Simply Jelly Rolls  and the pattern is called Biscuit.  I plan to hang this over my cutting table in my sewing room but for now it is across the back of the sofa...

Ok the color of the quilt is much better in the first pic ... it has been overcast here for a couple of days and the little light coming through the window behind me is blowing out the color... sorry.

And looking across the room you can see my chicken quilt on the wall... this was from left over Lori Holt leaf blocks and flower blocks... I machine appliqued the chicken on after it was quilted...

The tier tray has a funny little tiny toy... you wind it up and the chickens peck...

and the cross stitch is from Nikycreations Summer Scissors you can see it here. 

And this is my small shelf display... chickens and garden stuff is the theme right now... 

On the left side I have a stuffed rooster I picked up at a Hallmark shop years and years ago...

and on the right side...

the cross stitch on the little tin box is Rise and Shine by ScissorTail Designs... you can see it here.  I love the little chicken mini quilt... not sure where I got that pattern... 

Moving down on  the left hand side have a little chicken piece that I can't remember for the life of me who it came from... Heart in Hand? Hands on Designs?  Bent Creek?  I searched for it but no luck... the little chicken stack pillow on the bottom shelf is from Pinker N Punkin,  it is a freebie you can find here. 

Moving to the right side... another piece from Pinker N Punkin called Bees, Blooms and Chickens you can see it here... and truck is a snippet from Hands on Designs  Fresh Eggs Farm. 

and here's a better pic of the piece hiding on the bottom shelf...

This is Good Deeds from With Thy Needle and Thread ... you can find it here.  Next week I'll close out Summer with my big shelf display... still have one piece I want to FFO for it. I like my Summer displays but I'm chomping at the bit to do Fall... I'm hoping that doing Fall inside makes it cooler outside... forecast for the week is for a cold front to move through today and bring the temps down to the 70's in the daytime and 50's at night... can't wait to turn off the AC and open the windows and tell Duke Energy to take a  hike!

And next weekend is Labor Day weekend... where did the Summer go?  It seems to drag and speed by all at the same time. I'm looking at my garden beds and everything is wild and pretty overgrown... I'm not looking forward to cutting everything down and cleaning up the beds... but it will have to be done. I'm going to ask my lawn guy to use his dump trailer again. That made the job easier as I didn't have to get all the garden waste stuffed into paper bags for garbage pick up. 

Plans for next week include more stitching and some sewing... if I follow my friend's advice I'll get the binding on one more quilt... and I have three Christmas quilts I want to do and I need to get started on at least one... Elliott is in school all day... doesn't get off the bus till 4pm... that's a loooong day in my opinion. Anyway I'm watching him for about 90 minutes on Tuesdays over at his house... his Dad gets off work around 4:30 and depending on the traffic on I-71 he's home around 5:30... although last week it took till 6:30 as it rained just as rush hour started and a horrible accident had the expressway closed for over an hour... not good. 

I think I'll stitch up Oswald from Notforgotten Farm... the 3 little guys will be a nice addition to my Halloween display ... and I have a turkey I want to stitch for Thanksgiving... and there is still a Christmas sampler I should do, but I'm not feeling it right now. I looked through a bunch of my WIPs the other day and there are several I'd like to get back to. I saw a lot of the new releases for the Fall Needlework market... definitely some pretty things but so far I'm only tempted by one... and that is a very good thing, dontcha know?  I have enough charts to last 10 lifetimes... LOL

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... Nick likes to fix dinner for us on Sundays and I think he's doing meat sauce tonight...yummy... going to try to stick close to home this week and get things done around here. Maybe if the weather's not too hot and I find some motivation I'll clean up the garage... it is a mess and a lot of the mess could just be pitched in the garbage...I still want to rearrange some fabric in my sewing room and there is a bunch of stuff in the storage room that needs to be donated... I need a personal assistant to do my bidding...LOL... 

Hope you have a great week ahead...Fall is coming... and that pumpkin donut I ate yesterday has me ready for chrysanthemums (I saw that Costco has some big ones) and sweaters and trees turning colors ... meteorological Fall starts September 1 but I realistically know it will be October before all my Fall wishes will come true... sigh...oh well...

happy stitching-

carol fun