DO YOU REALIZE--THAT---

 In just '2' more days we will have to start 'talking turkey"!!!!!

I realize that alot of you  love the month of October--- me, not so much--I am not a big Halloween fan--we did go tricker --treating now and then, growing up--but it wasn't a big thing --when my kids were little I did dress them up each year and took them out--I often made their costumes--clown, Santa clause are 2, I remember--and one year it was so cold--that I dressed them in their one piece pj's and added homemade ears and gave them Easter baskets to collect their treats in-- they were the hit of the town that year!!!

Ok--enough memories for this week--

on to stitching news--

I finished the hand quilting and the binding on the bird wall hanging--

I, really like how this one came out--and yes --I did hand quilt around each of those birds on the borders!!!!

Then I spent the rest of the week working on finishing the Country quilt--

First I did a new house block--but when it came time to actually put the quilt row together--it just did not look right and I went back to the first one I did--the 'blue' house and I just added some embroidery to it--

and I added the grey sidewalk to go to the flower garden!!!

And this last block took me awhile to do--

I finally decided on a Christmas tree--the fabric for the tree had the little red ornaments already on it--I did stitch a lazy daisy chain in gold on it for a bit of interest -- and then what to do under the tree kept my brain busy for a couple days--and decided to add some gifts from, Jesus, under the tree--

Then I went to sew the strip together and went to sew it to the rest of the quilt and for what ever reason discovered the strip was----2" too short--so now what to do????????????

I discovered I could just add another row of 2" squares with a white patch between them--then what to do in the white strip--and this is what I did--

Now it all fit and here it is --all finished--

and if you didn't notice before--I did the alphabet in the 'in between' piece on the 9 patches--

with a 'heart' here and there to finish off the strips--

So this is mainly done--just have to decide on borders--whether to do one narrow one in the white and then a print larger one--hummmm????????????

My friend Anne sent me piece of cloth in her last letter and it was a Christmas print and it turned out to be 'just' wide enough and long enough for a heart for my quilt--

Plus I now have '4' Sunbonnet Christmas Sues all appliqued--

I also did some work on another project--but today while watching the nascar race--I believe I will be putting the 'frog' to work--there's alot to un-frog too!!!  more on this next week!!!

And look I what I found at the grocery store this week--

I think I see and taste some trouble here!!!!!!!!!

I will finish with a photo of one morning this week's sunrise--

SEASONS ARE CHANGING NO MATTER WHER YOU LIVE, AND IT'S EITHER GETTING COLDER OR HOTTER--SO HANG IN THERE--CHRISTMAS IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER--

HUGS, AND BLESSINGS, DI