Fall is in the air

I feel it-fall is in the air.  Am I ready for it, NO.  I love fall, but, I want more summer first!  Sunday felt more like summer, with 81 deg. and sunshine we pulled the boat out of the garage and spent a few hours on the lake-ahhhh relaxing!   Saturday was a bike ride which felt more like fall with leaves falling on the trail.  My heart goes out to those in Texas and to those effected with all the fires in the NW.  So on that note I am pretty darn happy with our weather.

In between a few activities this weekend, I finished binding on these toppers.  I started out piecing 2 of them but then I discovered if I did one more orange and brown strip set I could get 3 toppers and very little waste.  Since I didn't have enough of the light I chose another neutral that worked well.

Freehand feather design in the light color areas.

                     

Ruler work in the orange areas.

You may think these are hard to piece, but they are not.  You make strip sets and then use the Squedge 30 ruler to cut the shapes and sew back together.  You can find the ruler on Diana Phillips site.

This won't be as productive a week as last as I am heading to Quilt Expo in Madison, Wisconsin for a few days.  I'll be visiting a good friend over that way also.  I'll be thinking of Nancy Zieman while at the show, such a sad story, if you haven't heard you can read it here.

Also the Island Batik Back to School blog hop has started, you can follow along the hop- the Island Batik blog has the list of all of us bloggers participating.  It's gonna be so fun, you don't want to miss out on a single hop-and there are prizes!!!  HERE is the whole listing.

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