BLUE WAVE PAGE

 I designed and made this page for my Fall Journal today.  I stole the image of Hokusai's Wave (along with the rest of the nation).  I was happy when I found (in my stash) a print of Japanese Yukota cotton that would work perfectly. 

SQUIRREL PAGE

 I started this a few days ago.  This is the Squirrell page for my Fall Journal.  I finished sewing the parts down and adding a bit of embroidery today.  I think it's done now.  

FIXING COVER

 After I embroidered the letters onto the front and back covers for the Fall Journal I spritzed them with water to erase the water-erasable ink I had used as a guide.  And the color ran.  The golden yellow seeped onto the purple background.  It was faint, but visible.

Instead of trying to get the color out, I decided to stitch around the circle -  over the errant color.

SIGNATURE PAGE

 I made the back cover of my Fall Journal.  It will have my name on it. The ribbon from the front will continue around to this back cover.  I embroidered it before I appliqued it to the back cover.  I left the sides unsewn down so the ribbon length can be adjusted.

COVER FOR JOURNAL

 I took my sewing machine in for a service yesterday.  When I got home I started making the cover for my Fall Journal 2026. I found some Sari ribbon I liked to use as a closure.  I'm not sure I should have pressed it, but I wanted it to be under the circle where I'm embroidering the title and info for the journal.  Maybe I can scrunch it back up.

 I got it almost done.

Then today, I finished it, for now.  I'm thinking I will wrap the ribbon around and it will continue onto the back cover.  Not sure how to do that, but the fun part is figuring it out.  I'm also thinking I'd like them to be hard covers.  Hmmm...

FINISH NUMBER 22

 I made bias binding yesterday and this morning I sewed it onto the Turquoise SLABs quilt.

It is done!

It is 69" by 86"

And there's a party on the back:

FINISH NUMBER 21

 I made some bias binding from the same fabric as the borders and sewed it on this morning.

It's done!  This is Finish #21 for the year.

It is "Surprise It's Betty"  52" x 63".

QUILTED SURPRISE

 Yesterday I spent the majority of the day sewing the blocks of 'Surprise It's Betty' together with sashing and then adding borders to each side.  The name for this quilt comes partially from the two charm packs called Surprise!  and the pattern they were sewn into call Betty.  The pattern is from this book:

Then this morning, I got Erik the longarm set up to quilt it with a pantograph, an allover meander.  It took the majority of the day, but I finished it up just before dinner time.  It's quilted.