HE LIKES IT!

What a relief!!  The costume fits and he likes it!!  Below is a picture of the one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater (without his horn and wings) in his scariest pose!  My DIL is making the horn and wings. :-)

Yesterday was the Harvest Heritage Festival at Cedar Hill State Park and my quilters' guild always participates by setting up a booth to demonstrate quilting.  It was a perfect day for sitting out at Penn Farm, which is located in the park.  Penn farm was settled during the 1850s and stayed with the same family for over 100 years.  Here are some pictures of our quilting booth and other activities going on during the festival.

We had our raffle quilt on display and sold lots of tickets for the drawing to be held on December 9.

Wagon rides pulled by these draft horses was fun for the children.

Look!  The leaves on the tree behind the horses are turning yellow!  We are in Texas, so fall starts a lot later and we don't have the flaming colors like the northern states have.

Who knew there were vintage base-ball clubs around?

They even make their own balls and bats!

It was cloudy a lot but didn't rain.

Me hand quilting a doll quilt wearing my period costume.

Another guild member hand quilting an applique quilt.

Isn't this quilt gorgeous?

She is one of the founding members of our guild and also an excellent quilter!

It was a good day.

THIS WEEK'S QUILTING REPORT

This will be a very quick post at the last minute before we leave for the weekend.

I finished this cross stitched project.

I decided to start quilting this UFO and got all the blocks quilted.  Please excuse the picture as it was done without proper lighting.

Maybe this one is better.  I don't know if you can see the quilting or not.

I ran into a snag on my Kaleidoscope quilt and decided to "unquilt" part of the inner border.  I finished the rest of the border the way I wanted to do it with leaves and just have to take care of the corrected part.  Then I will try to figure out what to quilt in the outer border.

Have a nice weekend!

MAKING PROGRESS

It is so nice being retired!!!!! I'm starting to make a dent in some quilting projects. I'll show you a few. First of all, I'm over half way finished with the hand quilting on my tumbler table runner!

We have a niece who is expecting in July, so I'm putting together an "I Spy" baby quilt. I haven't sewn the blocks together yet because I'm waiting to see if she's having a boy or a girl. Most of the blocks are good for either sex, but some would not work for a boy (no pinks or girly girl stuff). I might come across some more good fabrics in the mean time too, and I have a few more months before I will need to get it finished.

My quilting guild has accepted the American Patchwork & Quilting's challenge of a million pillowcases to donate to charity, so I made a few pillowcases and took them to my guild meeting last night.
I'm had this music fabric for quite a while, so decided it was time to use it.
I love this old-fashioned valentine fabric and have used it to make several pillowcases before, but had enough left for one more. It is so sweet!
Now, back to income tax....Ugh! However, I can only work on paperwork for so long and then I have to get back to sewing!