Welcoming Fall

 Welcome to Treadlestitches!

Is it fall where you live?  Here in Wisconsin, it's sunny out this morning, but the temperature went down to freezing last night.  Fall is for real now, and winter is not far behind. 

Time to get quilting!  I got this Very Hungry Caterpillar baby quilt quilted and bound (finally) and ready for its new home.  It will be donated to Project Linus.  The blocks were made as part of the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Look what I found for the back!  These are pieces from two different panels plus some of the fabric from the front.  I've had one of these panels in a box in the basement for years.  The date on the selvedge of that one was 2007.

Here's our sweet little caterpillar, changed into a beautiful butterfly.

Speaking of sweet!  Remember last week, when I was canning apples and pears?  This little guy made up his own game playing with the jar rings.  He was pretty proud of himself.  He kept putting the rings on the chair, and taking them off, and putting them on again.  Having him around is so much fun.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!  And when life gives quilters scraps, we make quilts!  That was the idea behind our quilt guild's Lemonade Challenge.  Participants were each given a bag of scraps by the charity committee, and asked to make a quilt/top from them.  We had to use two thirds of the colors in the bag, but could add our own fabrics too.  Above are the fabrics I had to work with.

Tops or quilts were due this month.  This is my entry.  The pattern is called Double Slice, and comes from Jenny Doan of the Missouri Star Quilt Company.  (Click HERE for the YouTube video.)  Jenny made hers from layer cakes, but it's easy enough to just cut the pieces from scraps.  As you can see, I concentrated on the warm colors, and added quite a few of my own scraps.

The block only has 4 pieces in it, so it goes together quickly.  I donated my top to the charity committee, who will quilt it and find it a good home.

It's fun to see our wildlife neighbors in the park.  These Canadian geese were loudly arguing with another group of geese, apparently about which group got to eat the food put out for them.  They moved away as Baby Buddy and I got closer, but went back to honking as soon as we were gone.

My daughter sent me this photo of my two littlest buddies cuddling together.  They don't always get along this well, but they really do love each other.

Fall brings a lot of good family times for us, like birthdays and Halloween and Thanksgiving.  This year is already better than last year, now that so many of us are vaccinated and can feel safe sharing a meal and hugging again.  Yes, hugging, lots of it!

May this week bring you happy times with people you care about.  And fun with scraps and quilts!

Cheers for reading,

Sylvia@Treadlestitches

Linking up with:

Sarah at Can I Get A Whoop Whoop

Alycia at Finished or Not Finished Friday

Angela at So Scrappy

Cynthia at Oh Scrap