Not Afraid of Color: September 2025

I've focused my creative time this week on finishing one quilt, and on photography.

the changing seasons are exciting especially coming into the possibility of cooler temps.

the color of the month at rainbow scrap challenge is pale green and pale blue.... so on walks I look for those colors....

An artist paints what she sees but what she sees is primarily what she looks for

nature paints the world with all the shades and light to dark providing contrast

I admit I'm drawn to saturated colors so focusing on pale ones is more difficult.

what kind of tree is this?

Most of my photos this week are glorious saturated colors, but that must wait til Thursday's I Like post

it's difficult for me to go from "aqua" a light blue green, to the RSC chosen colors of

light green and blue... so I expect to veer from them soon,

I was able to keep my machine moving along this week, enough to finish the quilting and binding on this runner. Here it is after the binding went on, was turned to the front to be straight stitched down...

and since this machine couldn't handle true piping layers, I found this cording in my stash

and carefully zig-zagged over it with a lime thread next to the finished binding to look like piping!

and voila!

fini!

finished and on to the next thing, making some light blue blocks for this year's RSC quilt

it was hard to stay to low contrast light to medium shades, without the usual joy color gives me

so I pulled out some other blue and green tone finished blocks to see how these might fit in... there is a stack of these blocks in all the colors so far... and it is a scrap quilt

just a few of the finished blocks along with this month's

This tells me if I wanted to make a bed quilt in a limited color scheme, it might look okay, as long as I added in colors nearby on the color wheel too

as I make these blocks there are always bits cut off... so I sewed them together just to see what they might do, as one does lol.

then I chose light green fabrics to make the hexie swirl block

isn't this a lovely fabric?

and cut 2.5" squares to hand baste onto the paper forms later this week

ack, how long can I last sewing pale fabrics to pale fabrics?

Guess we'll find out next week!

busy as a bee!

linking with

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/

patchwork Sunday

oh Scrap Sundays

slow stitching Sundays

https://melvalovesscraps.blogspot.com/

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

https://songbirddesigns.blog/

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/

finished or not

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/

https://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/

friday face off

it's time for another list of likes.... How about coming with me on another walk? Let's go!

The above blossom was at the community garden, it's new every week seems like

pretty.... tidy

very inviting isn't it?

it's beginning to look a lot like Autumn.....

another bunny

and....another bunny, sniffing a flower
Startled these two, and they headed for safety, which squirrels will do even if they don't get along, but they accept each other temporarily

one of my roses

Love visiting this fellow, his person has 4 mini schnauzers

I like the clouds here, they put on a mighty show each day

finally finished this quilt not in time for last Saturday's post however

a little lime green is a good thing. See the piping along the binding?

Joy's challenge https://thejoyfulquilter.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-table-scraps-challenge-link.html

I was going to enter it in Joy's table scraps challenge prompt "hot flash"

I wanted this fabric but I have so much

I saw this funny this week

(second from bottom on right)

I also saw this funny... on the blog can we have a new witch ours melted

conversation starter this week is

did you get school clothes and shoes for the start of school? Did you look through the enormous Sears catalogue at all the possibilities and dream? Remember going to the store with probably a mom, and trying on clothes? A shoe store for your "school shoes" I remember getting one main pair of shoes I wore daily. My clothes were usually kind of large because I'd "grow into them" same with shoes.

when I was 5 I got pink ballet shoes for dance lessons, gosh I loved those. I played for years in my dyed emerald green flat slippers I wore in my sister Kitty's wedding squeezing my feet in them.

at halloween I had these elastic high heel plastic shoes one year.... I felt glamorous

I remember one year I got penny loafers that I inserted an actual penny in

I remember the man who always measured my feet, and brought out uncomfortable shoes for that year.

Oh and we always had to have new Keds for PE ( I HATED PE) and mark our names on them. I remember clothing a bit big, and stiff and chosen FOR me through elementary and nearly junior high.

I chose the penny loafers, (finally)

sometimes I got a new pair of church shoes if my foot had grown. Usually black patent leather with a buckle.