Some Halloween and some Christmas on a Slow Sunday...

Hello - well another week where there was a lot of coming and going and coming and going and I tried hard to squeeze in a little craftiness. The weather has been divine... had the windows open every day! As I type this (Saturday afternoon) it may hit 80, but the rest of the week is highs in the 60s... Fall weather!!

My garden flowers are still going strong and while they are lovely to look at I keep thinking of all the clean up work I will need to do... realistically it will be November before I even start the job... and realistically I'm dreading the job and want to get it over with. 

I did get my Halloween decor out last weekend. Here's a look at what I've put out...

The wall...

went with the GIANT spider quilt... I think the googly eyes are a chef's kiss on this one...LOL... 

The tier tray has some new pieces of cross stitch on it... Boo Berries and Sprout from Notforgotten Farms... 

here's a close up... front...

back...

I have some small displays around the living room... a spooky little tier tray (a $spot Target purchase years ago)... the cat on the top is a snippet from Prairie Schooler Trick or Treat and the Halloween pillow is from The Drawn Thread's Little Bits of Halloween. 

And the monthly piece from Hands on Designs....

The small shelf unit got decked out nicely...

On the left a spooky house plate with a small framed Lizzie Kate piece and a little wonky bat from Bent Creek.

On the right side Lizzie Kate's Halloween ABC on linen I painted with Rit Dye... Halloween stuff is fun to paint because you can use so many colors!

On the middle and the bottom shelves a little witch, another snippet from Prairie Schooler's Trick or Treat and one of many pumpkin headed ladies I've stitched, Matilda Hornbuckle from Notforgotten Farms... below is a Debbie Mumm tin I just picked up this year on eBay... so cute... the Trick or Treat is another snippet from Prairie Schooler's Trick or Treat... there were so many motifs in that chart that made cute little pillows!

In the middle and bottom toward the right I have a couple of Lizzie Kate little pillows tucked into the homage to Edgar Allen Poe and  Creepy Crawly Alphabet from Emily Call that I put in a clock frame after I took the guts out...

I bounced around crafty wise and settled on finishing up 2 pairs of socks that were close to completion... sock weather is coming... I can feel it....

This turquoise pair I did by alternating 2 different yet similar skeins  of Opal ...

This scrappy pair is a mish mash of lot of different skeins, all from Opal...

I  hardly cross stitch at all and when I did I worked on a winter piece... I need to get back to the BBD Christmas sampler... definitely on the agenda for this coming week. 

However I did decide what pattern to go with for my Tiny Christmas by Lizzie House quilt  and I sewed several days this week and this is it....

Four GIANT Lemoyne stars!!! These measure 36" finished. I started with 10" squares to make HST units and trimmed them down to 9.5" finished.  The little star in the middle is 6" finished.  I still need to add the outer borders and then I can get this off to Delinda to be quilted. If this looks familiar it should ... I've done this exact layout before...  this is the first quilt I made with this design using some large scale  Momo fabrics. You use nice big chunks of the prints!

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These are some of my favorite prints in the Christmas version - pixies...

and Christmas stamps...

and candy canes with faces ...

and now I'm thinking this might get a great pattern for a new patriotic quilt... I have the Lori Holt Americana collection in a layer cake and a FQ bundle... ooooh... I'm liking this idea!  Now to get this one  off to Delinda to be quilted so I can have it on my bed in December.

Next week looks calmer than the last 2 weeks... my workout sessions with Anna got tweaked as she has a couple of doctors appointments and I have one on Monday... need to go see the hand specialist as I've got a trigger finger problem with the ring finger on my left hand. It makes crocheting and knitting difficult and right now those are the things I really want to do... and isn't that always the case... what you want to do isn't always what you should do... sigh... Elliott is my Tuesday jam and I need to check in on a family member later in the week... probably take them out to eat.  Dan the handyman is suppose to come Sunday... got a bunch of things for him to do... I'm sure other things will occur that need to be attended to as that is life.

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... hope your week ahead is a good one!

happy stitching- 

carol fun