PAGE TWO OF FALL JOURNAL

My goal is to start a new page of the Fall Journal every Tuesday and finish it that week.  

This was started last Tuesday and I finished it today while on the Finish It Friday zoom with my friends.  These are representing the Black-eyed Susans brightening the turn of the season in our front yard. 

 

SHEPARD'S PIE

 I made our first Shepard's Pie for the season.  We love this when it gets chilly out.  

Here I am topping it with some of the Yukon Gold potatoes from our garden.  I also used a bit of the spicy Tomato Ketchup I made from our tomato harvest.  Unfortunately, we didn't plant any carrots this year, so these are organic store bought.  And we had eaten all the peas we grew already.

It was exceptionally good; I think because it's been awhile since we've had any.

MONTH NINE

 I finally got around to making this month's blocks for the SeaMQGBOM2026, Weave Got This.

I guess I've been busy with other stuff.

I'm getting concerned that I might run out of that orange print before the end.  

HARVEST MOON

 We were on our way to Lincoln Park for our morning walk at about 6:40am when we saw this full moon.  [sorry for the bad photo.  I saw on the passenger side looking through a dirty windshield].

FALL JOURNAL

 The Stitch Club with Ann Wood suggested starting a Fall Journal on Tuesday, September 22, the Autumnal Equinox.  It will go for twelve weeks stitching a page a week.

Here is my page one commemorating the Sunflowers I grew this summer.  I enjoyed them so much.

OHIO STARS

 I've been working on making big Ohio Star blocks for a backing.  Yes, a backing.  It will be for the National Parks Panel I was gifted by a good friend.  Since the front will be just the big panel I felt I needed to actually make some patchwork for the back.  I had a charm pack of vintage-looking 5" squares whose colors sort of matched the colors of the panel.  I added some solids and some other prints from my stash to make enough blocks to cover most of the back.  I will need to add a border around these blocks, once I sew them together.

If you look a little closer you'll notice I wasn't concerned with making the points match or line up.  I just sewed them together. 

CANNING PEARS

 We bought up all the Bartlett Pears at PCC last Sunday for $1.99 a pound.  We got around 21 pounds.

Today we canned them.  Darrell peeled, I cut and cored them.  Then I packed them into jars with a light syrup and processed them.

We now have 10 quarts of tasty goodness.