Fall Comes.....................................Acorns Drop!

  A friend gifted me a huge bag of Acorns that dropped around campus==these are nice fat acorns!  I set out to make fabric acorns for house decorations and gifts for friends.  First, I baked all the shells--who wants any bugs in their decorations?!  Once, they had cooled, I set about make a pattern for these interesting accents.  The first ones I made were with plaid cotton fabric, not happy with those, I remembered I had a box of wool scraps--let's get cutting and deciding how to go about this.

I used a 3" circle--worked great.  Cut many circles

Cut slits even around by marking in half each way

Folded in half and stitch a dart

By sewing in each quarter, you have an acorn top--then

I wanted to do a short cut and decided not to cut the slits

And just folded the circle in half and sewed the dart in each direction--

that way worked too and saved some time. Next step was to sew a gathering 

stitch around the circle, pull up, stuff with fiber fill, pull up thread,

glue inside acorn half and place top--

There you have it!!  My acorn decorations for fall--

Was thankful my friend gifted me with these--in

turn I gifted her with a small basket stuffed with these goodies!

Veteran's Day

 

Project Handwork

UFOs on the Horizon!

As if you don't have anything else on your plate this time of the year--

here comes a few more projects to put in your UFO pile!

Jenny of Elfantz is graciously offering a free stitch along, Joy to the World, beginning

Tomorrow ( Friday).  Each Friday she will post a free pattern for her quilt.

To begin the stitch along, she is offering this free pincushion.  

Join Jessica for her Little Village Quilt Along that began October 30

and runs through December 4.  Each week a different pattern will be 

released-- Will you choose Red--like this one

or Red  

I'm leaning towards Red!  Who doesn't love Red or Blue?!!

And the Grand Mommy of all quilt challenges is

Bonnie Hunter's Fall mystery.  The introduction is ready--

giving us a chance to gather our fabrics before the first

clue drops Friday after Thanksgiving.

 

Grateful, Thankful, Blessed

 Thanksgiving is fast approaching, which puts me into the thoughts of Gratitude and blessings that I've received from far and near.  

Seeing this Gratitude quilt by Diary of a Quilter gave me the idea to use my saved signature

blocks (from friends in Venezuela) and add other blessings and make a quilt

similar to this one--I've saved those blocks for years and always wondered

how to display them.

I’ve saved these since 2008–a couple of those signed

Have their angel wings, several live in different states but

Many are in the same region—fond memories every time I 

Bring these out to admire

Another stitchery shows our Thanksgiving thoughts throughout the year.  This is designed

by Flamingo Toes

Turkey Trot by Sewing Loft  would make great placemats for the Thanksgiving table. 

Taking a Mental Health Day

 Do you ever take a mental health day??  My teacher daughter always takes at least one mental health day during the school year--we all need to take time to refresh our bodies and our MINDS!

Here is a list of 50 ways to spend a Mental Health Day.  During these Covid days, we should follow these steps to better minds and relaxation.

Another fun thing to do--Autumn Bucket List--this is printable in various styles.

Fall Happiness has another printable list of fun activities for the family!

Shoeboxes for Kids

Our Cowboy Church is doing Operation Christmas Child!!  This is in association with

Samaritan's Purse Organization.

We grabbed the last three bags to be filled--this will give us a total of 25 shoeboxes

We filled the bags, in next week we'll pack the shoeboxes to be sent

There is a list of suggestions to purchase--A lot of toiletries plus some goodies for play

and entertainment were our choices 

Car toys for boys, playing cards, along with coloring books, crayons, colored pencils,

some school items--

it was a good day when we went shopping.