Mid September and feeling organized

 It is a bit of a strange month for us because my husband is having daily radiation and I drive him to and from and lend moral support for the process.  The appointment times are all over the place with no consistent time other than they seem to all be before or shortly after noon.  So, my days are very messed up with little tennis being played and hard to plan any other appointments or activities.  But, we are on the last few days and will be finished on Monday (hopefully).  

Once I had the bindings and labels on the quilts after the first week of September, I worked on my rainbow scrap challenge blocks using browns.  Heartstrings challenge is jelly rolls or 2.5" strips.  I dug out all my containers of brown fabrics and I have a lot because I use that colour for backings of a lot of Quilts of Valour.  It was overwhelming but I pushed on.

I had a set of quilt blocks, rail fences using 4 strips and wanted to turn them into a quilt top.  I made more blocks and then added a corner at a bit of a different angle to two opposite corners.  This idea was taken from a very old pattern called Honor.  On the design wall and then put together and pressed. 

It seems a bit blah?  But, I am going to use another panel for the backing and maybe the recipient will like it better?  A two sided quilt. 

I went ahead and made most of my blocks for the rainbow scrap challenge... a lot of cutting and stitching and creation of a total disaster zone. Triple rail fence blocks and the pile of garlic knots. 

The L blocks, the small corner triangles, the 8 pointed stars... and hiding at the bottom is the Patterns by Jen block, which was also a brown choice.  I only made one block because if made a second with the light and dark switched out, it would look the same? 

I finished up with making string blocks using brown strips.  The Pattern by Jen is more visible in this picture. 

After tidying up, the brown strips fit back into my strip bucket nicely although it is very full. 

We had a Saturday sew in with the modern guild and I had these fat quarters from a mystery box and didn't like the pattern that came with them so chose to make Confetti.  I cannot remember the book that this pattern is from but super simple from 9" squares. 

There always has to be one block stitched incorrectly.  I am not perfect!

The blocks are on the wall and now put together into a kid's quilt.  A strange grouping of prints but ends up being bright and happy. 

I stopped and cleaned, tidied, vacuumed and generally did a massive organization job and everything looks so much better and my tables, ironing board and cutting mats are all clear!  Temporarily. 

A bit of a time out because of a massive fall while heading up the stairs with my hands full and missed the top step somehow and landed in the windowsill head first.  My eye is healing, my forehead still hurts badly and won't show you the bruises on my hip and butt!  

The garden is producing so  many tomatoes!  See that lip on the stair?  I think that is what my foot caught when going up, late in the evening, with my hands full and not using the railing.  Lesson learned. 

I did spend a day outside using the lawn mower and weed wacker to tidy up our three levels of garden in the back of the house.  A wetter than usual August has everything green and growing, including the weeds.  The roses are very happy and the geraniums are loving the late summer sunshine.   I am hoping next year to scatter wildflower seeds in the empty vegetable boxes and add more colour to the lower levels. 

Off to plan my next project which is button box by Running Doe (Villa Rosa) and maybe use up another pack of fabric that came in one of the mystery boxes.  Time to deal with all these aging kits and fabric bundles that are sitting and growing old.