Pumpkin and leaves

 What could be better than pumpkins and leaves to represent fall than a wall hanging with both. 

Jedi Craft Girl really put fall into this pattern, gotta love that. It was so fun to make again. 

It's great as a wall hanging, but could also be used as a table topper.

This is the kind of hanging sleeve I do on wall hangings. The split sleeve leaves the middle open so you only have to put one nail in your wall. Sometimes even just a pin or needle will do.

Linking with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell Monday and Design Wall Monday.

Pumpkin Mini

Pieced a week ago, 

quilted on Monday, 

bound on Tuesday for a finish. I used a pattern from Jedi Craft Girl called Pumpkin Mini which finishes at 30"x 30". Orange Scraps were used for the leaves and pumpkin. The white background has gray polka dots(who doesn't love polka dots!). 

And finished off with a orange and black gingham/check set on the diagonal.

Linking with Wednesday Wait Loss, Midweek Makers, Free Motion Mavericks, NTT, and Oh Scrap!

Scrappy Jack

 Meet Scrappy Jack!

He is inspired by a Buttermilk Basin pattern called Inch by Inch Jacks. I resized my orange scrap squares and now have a piece that finished at 17"x 25". 

When I made this Jack last year I think I used the size pieces stated in the pattern. This year I wanted him just a bit bigger.

 

Use him as a table topper or a wall hanging, I love versatile pieces. He can be found in my Etsy shop.

Linking with Oh Scrap!, Monday Design Wall, Sew and Tell Monday, and Monday Musings.

October 25th To Do Tuesday

 Do you all realize this is the last Tuesday in October already!  I am late getting my To Do Tuesday posted.  It almost sailed right by me.  

Let's see what was on my goal list for the past week. Oh yes I didn't make a specific list other than to say work on more table runners, especially snowmen ones. And I was going to try to work on piecing more of the 8 identical table toppers. 

1. Snowman table runners done: ✅ x 4.  First up is this one made using my Snow Dudes pattern (which can be found in my Etsy pattern shop).

I took the fast way out and used one piece for a backing.

Next I moved onto making two of these round ones using my Around and Around pattern(also in my Etsy shop).

For these I found some leftover pieces from other runners and made fun backings for them. These are approximately 25" in diameter. 

As for the other goal of piecing more of the 8 identical toppers, that didn't happen. However, I did get the three quilted that were already pieced.  I pinned one long piece of fabric onto my longarm and made fast work of this. These are approximately 24" square.  

I also finished up another pumpkin wall hanging.  Another fun backing was quickly pieced and leftovers used up!

This one was already pieced, so the quilting and binding were done this past week. 

This week's goals are fun, fun, fun!  I have a friend coming over on Monday/Tuesday so we are going to sew ourselves silly, along with chatting like crazy.  I told a neighbor I would have her over one day later in the week.  And another gal suggested we get together for a sewing day.  So what will I be sewing, well I have those 3 red/white toppers to bind, 3 pumpkin runners to bind.  From there anything is fair game!!  We'll all be surprised to see what I finish up:)

Linking up with To Do Tuesday over at our lovely host Linda's blog.  And Thank you to Susan for hosting Midweek Makers

Happy Tuesday!

Alrightee, let's get right to it today. To Do Tuesday goals last week were...

1. Finish another snowman wall hanging-or maybe even two!  ✅  ✅ Technically there were two finishes, the first one I blogged about on Friday, you can see that HERE.

And this was the second snowman wall hanging.  They are two blocks from a panel to which I added the red sashing to bring them up to size. This time for the checkerboard I cut 2.5" strips of black and white, strip pieced them, and cut them into squares using my Accuquilt 2.5" strip die.  And here is that fun red and black plaid again. 

And a close up of this cutie!

2. Finish another sunflower table runner ✅  I found a fun print for the backing and just enough.

3. Start piecing the 8 identical table toppers. ✅ ✅ ✅  I get three checks as I pieced three of them!

4. Attend a longarm class-we are having Julia Quiltoff come do a day long class for our local longarm group ✅  This was a fun time to be with quilting peeps again.  Friday night was a trunk show but I didn't go as it was a 40 minute drive and I didn't want to drive home in the dark. So I just went to the class on Saturday. Julia is such a sweet little gal and so eager to share.  She shared many quilting ideas/designs and then we could draw them out.  I bought one of her templates for my longarm.  And yesterday I used it on the outer border here.  She calls it her zig zag template.

5. Prepare blog post for the Gremlins, Goblins and Ghouls blog hop. My day is October 19th ✅  Photos taken and post written!  I hope to see you back here tomorrow for my share on the hop. 

6. Whatever else I can fit in ✅  I had this wall hanging pieced last year and ran out of time to quilt it. So out of the closet and onto the longarm it went. Then it was off to the sewing machine for applique time on the pumpkin and sunflower.  All bound, photographed and listed.  Yippee another UFO done! 

The stars are small as this is only about 24" square.  But oh so cute!  I used flannel for the pumpkin and wool for the stem and sunflower.

I think that is enough for one week don't you think?  OMG I didn't even touch my machine for 2 whole days over the weekend!  Almost unheard of, LOL.  

Goals for the week:  

Table runners- Definitely more snowmen are needed, and I will try to piece a couple more of the identical 8. 

Thank you Linda for hosting To Do Tuesday, that's where I am heading to link up!