new art, pumpkin hat, leftover trip photos

We got this surprise gift in the mail the other day, some original art by our talented son, Warren. I love it!

I just finished this last night and need to get it in the mail for Samantha. It's a standard hat, and I had the idea to add ribs to make it look more "pumpkiny." I'm figured out the pumpkin stem by myself, too. If I have time, I'll post instructions for it. Cute, huh?

Here are a few more photos from our last trip that I missed before. I had to show you Samantha wearing her chicken dress.

I thought this was cute.

The rivers and streams were all flooded on the day that we drove to North Brookfield. This was taken in Ithaca, where we spent over an hour detouring around where this river flooded a bridge.

I should have taken better photos of the flooding. Here's a flooded cornfield near my daughter's farm. They didn't have any problems, although their stream was higher than usual.

Nice pic of mom and daughter.

Sammy pushing her little cart.

A good one with Grandpa C at the Colgate Inn.

flannel baby ball



A friend of mine loved my flannel baby ball but will be out of town when I teach the class at Flying Geese Fabrics. I am amazed that she figured it out all by herself! Cute, huh? Wendy made the cute quilt, too.

If you are interested, I still have openings in this and other classes. Look on the right to my new "Coming Events" section to see my schedule.

I still have photos in my camera from the NY/Chicago trip. One of these days I will bring them out, I promise.

Harvest of Quilts recap

The quilt show was over, I'm exhausted after three days of solid work. But the good news is that I won an Autumn Harvest award for "Best Art Quilt" for "Summertime Cat." (who knows, it may have been the only art quilt?) It looks good with a ribbon attached to it.

I entered this quilt, too. It didn't win any awards, but I am told that it had the distinction of being the smallest quilt in the whole show. :-)

I entered a pair of socks and my "When We Were Children" felt book in the Creative Arts exhibit. I was so surprised that the book won an Autumn Harvest ribbon, too! This was decided by popular vote, whereas the quilt award was decided by the judge. I am touched.

The Quilts on the Wall "Discovery" exhibit was a big success. Here are a few photos that give an impression of how it looked. It was so windy inside that the black curtains blew about, but it still looked great, I thought. Artists: Julie Schlueter, Laura Bisagna, Carolyn Villars.

Artists: Sherry Davis Kleinman, Linda Stone, Marilyn Fromherz

The exhibit was well attended, and I heard lots of positive remarks, which is great because this is mostly a traditional quilt show. Artists: Muna Elias, Sally Gould Wright, Sandra Lauterbach, Karen Valderrama, Carol Nilsen.

I'm sorry I didn't photograph all the quilts, but I got many of them. Artists: Sandra Hankins, Cynthia Catlin, Joann Sarachman, Karen Markley. I didn't have a quilt in the show, but I was responsible for hanging it here.

Here's a peek at a holiday project underway.

A Harvest of Quilts

A Harvest of Quilts Quilt Show is this weekend. Tomorrow I'll be at Soka University all day, setting up quilts and more.

Here's the scoop: A Harvest of Quilts presented by The Flying Geese Quilters Guild.
Saturday, October 1, 10 to 4, and Sunday, October 2, 10 to 3:30
http://www.flyinggeese.net/
Soka University
1 University Drive,
Aliso Viejo, CA

Free parking, Vendor mall and door prizes, quilt auction Saturday 1pm, fun demonstrations on Sunday, Quilts on the Wall Exhibit, Antique Quilt exhibit, General admission $8.

I headed the committee to make the award ribbons for all the prize winners. I also am in charge of hanging the Quilts on the Wall exhibit. "Discovery" is making its SoCal debut. I'm also doing a demonstration of English Paper Piecing on Sunday at 12:30. A couple of my quilts are in the show, plus two items in the Creative Arts exhibit (a mixed media book and a pair of socks).

It promises to be a fabulous show. If you are in the area, I hope to see you there!

visit to central ny

I promise, I am doing quilty things. I just can't show them right now.

My pomegranates are turning red, and some of them are enormous. They should be pickable within the next month. Exciting!

Lunch at Wegman's, a very cool supermarket near Utica. She eats just about anything.

Nice pic of Mom and Sammie.

Decent pix of me with Grandbaby.

Coloring with both hands. How precocious! She seems pretty ambidextrous so far.

One of many swing sessions. It used to be hung from an apple tree, but the branch broke. Now it's in a wooden frame.

Uncle and niece.

Last one.

Trip Notes

We had a great trip to New York recently, via Chicago. Chicago, you say? Well, it turned out to be a pretty good plan. We got to drive through Indiana and Ohio, places where we'd never been before. We stayed in Shipshewanna, Indiana in Amish country. Saw plenty of buggies and people dressed about how you'd expect them to. I didn't take photos, as it seemed disrespectful. Then later on the way home we stayed in Cleveland, which I enjoyed more than I thought I would. At the end, we stayed two nights in Chicago before heading home. I will do an Artful Tour of Chicago (my second one!) later, but first things first, which is the visit to my daughter's farm in Central New York. Our son joined us on this visit, which was great.



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The apple trees were bursting with fruit, even the ancient tree by the farm house.

A homegrown pumpkin and lots of onions.





I went on a hike with my daughter and son up the hill and into the woods. We saw these mushrooms on a log. Unfortunately, we didn't find any of the edible kind.

My son found this tiny frog.

View of the farm and environs from the top of the hill.

There are wild apple trees growing everywhere. Maybe you can make out the tiny apples on the trees.

The girls were lined up in the pasture as we passed by. They belong to a farmer who leases the pasture for part of the year, to fatten up his heifers on sweet organic grasses.

Warren being friendly.

Later, a neighbor dropped this by. It's a giant puff ball mushroom. We saw tiny ones on our hike.

This is how the puff ball looked sliced. My daughter sliced it up and sauteed it. It was delicious! The texture was surprisingly.... puffy!
More photos to come.

too busy

I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. We have just returned from a wonderful trip to NY, plus my guild's quilt show is coming up, and I head two committees for it. I've struggled with piles for the past couple of days (piles of laundry, mail, and email). Now the piles are getting more reasonable, but I still haven't processed the photos from the trip. Maybe it will happen manana.

In the meantime, here is a photo of Samantha and Mimi the farm cat, via Warren's iphone.