Lotsa Blocks

Good morning, my friends. I thought the rain would hold off until tomorrow, but it looks as if it'll be joining us sooner than that. We're promised an "atmospheric river," meaning rain, rain, rain, and more rain. It's the Pacific Northwest. What can I say? 

It's still dark outside as I write this. I'm hopeful the Firefighter dahlia will have opened a little more from yesterday's showing.

If it has, I'll probably just cut the flower and bring it in. The other dahlias have been moved indoors now. This one still needs to be cut back and brought inside, but I'll probably have to wait until the rain passes in a few days. 

So, I finished up this go-round for the Tiny Treasures yesterday. Tiny Treasure #11 was all stem stitch and French knots.

This was Tiny Treasure #12. Stem stitch, lazy daisy, fishbone stitch and French knots.

From there, I cut them to the 2-1/2 inch size I wanted. Here are the 12 Tiny Treasures I have so far. Yes, the one in the upper right is rotated 90 degrees to the left.

Now, I'll set these aside until it's turn comes around again.

From there, I was ready to turn to Grandpa's Bridges. Sadie was napping in the sewing room, and I rudely disturbed her slumber by using the sewing room for...you know...sewing. 

She moved to the sanctuary of her kitty bed just to the left.

Smitty volunteered to be my helper cat for the day.

With this help and advice, I sewed together the first block. It's looking good so far.

And then I sewed together the first row.

And then, the second.

And then I just kept going until I had all the blocks sewn together.

Today, I'll give it two more borders, and then I'll have a finished quilt top. I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the back yet. I have some potential fabrics to use, but I'll need to see how big it ends up before I can decide.

This morning I'll get started stitching Block 2 for Home is Where My Flock Is.

These blocks are fairly small, and so it shouldn't take long.

On today's agenda, I have a couple of easy housekeeping chores. We need to go into town for a short grocery shopping trip...just enough to get us through the weekend. With the rain, it's going to be a mostly sewing day. And when the rain starts at this time of year, I find myself grateful for more sewing time. On the other hand, by January, we'll be yearning for some sunshine. 

Okay, so off I go. I realize we're still into fall, but has your winter weather arrived? With several days of rain ahead, we're definitely getting into the cold-weather spirit.