LEAVES ARE CHANGING

As you can see, the leaves are starting to change.  We will  miss the most colorful part of the season as we will be leaving for home at the end of this week.

Some colorful leaves in the campground we were staying at.

More leaves and rocks around the pond.

Do you want to catch a frog?

There are nets available to catch frogs with - they must be released after catching.

In my September 22 post, I neglected to tell you something about Louisa May Alcott's home.  Inside the house there were 3 quilts made by her mother!  They had to be at least 150 years old and were in very good condition!  One was pink and brown squares with lighter solid panels separating panels of squares.  One was a flying geese quilt and the third one was white with large blue triangles.  I wish I could have gotten pictures of them.  But I just found pictures of the inside of their home here!  I didn't see the quilts in any of these pictures, however.  Click on Panoramas for a much better look.

KEEPSAKE QUILTING

It was a beautiful day yesterday when we drove over to Keepsake Quilting, which is about 30 minutes away from our campground, Beaver Hollow.  It is a very impressive store, full of wonderful bolts of fabric and patterns.  I could have spent lots of money there, but I restrained myself.

The have an "outlet" section with lower prices and I did purchase some charm packs there, but of the bolts, there were only 2 that I could find of reproduction fabrics, one of which I already had at home and the other one didn't appeal to me.

Here are the fabrics that I did find.  The black with orange leaves is  Jo Morton FQ and that is all I could find of that.  I love that fabric and had never seen it before!  The black & white stripe is also Jo Morton.  The one on the left is a FQ of Heritage Prints for Benartex (I don't know if you can tell, but the little flowers and dots are kind of a darkish maroon or brownish) and the off white with little circle things is Moda.  The last black is Marcus, design 1114, which I got to use in my "Over the River & Through the Woods" quilt.  I need blacks, browns and beiges or off whites for it. I didn't see anything else that I wanted to spend money on.

However, I am happy with my purchases.  I am hoping to find some other quilt shops along the way, however, so I can't spend all my pennies in one place.

FYI, the temperature got down to 45 last night and is 65 this afternoon!  Love it!  I've been working on my log cabin blocks today and just taking it easy.