Thanksgiving, a new quilt top and a sandwhich

 Hello Everyone,

I'm wishing my American readers an early Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you have a lovely day, filled with family, friends and good food.... even if you don't celebrate this holiday :) My family loves traditional Thanksgiving food, so my dd and I will be quite busy. We bake our pies on Wed and do traditional turkey, rolls, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy, corn, cranberries, salad and sometimes green beans or stuff mushrooms on Thursday. Our table will be groaning! 

I didn't mean to be gone for so long. One day it was early July and I was just puttering around, getting into Summer routine here in our logging business household, and the next thing I know it's Sept. And then BAMM it's the end of November. I don't know how the time got away so quickly.

We did have an adventure in late July/early Aug. and I guess that threw the time off for us all. The Park fire came close to our house, it burned soooo many acres and sooo quickly! We packed up our most precious things and convoyed out of here at 9pm on a Friday night. We went camping with our dogs at the logging site, so my family was still able to work and we had a camper and tents to live in. The best thing about camping was swimming in the lake whenever I wanted! So we have a lot to be thankful for this year. Our house and property were saved, we lost only some of our chickens, but not all of them. We had a place to go, even if was camping out, my gang still worked and we were all together.

But my health hasn't been as good this year. My energy level is low and I tire and get achy so very easily. I have an immune disease that is causing all my issues and I'm trying to get things together without using a lot of drugs. And it's a challenge.

But, I have done a bit of quilting/sewing. Let me show you, I left you with snaps of some small lone stars I was putting together. Some in blue:

Some in dusky pink:

Then I made these sashing strips:

I laid them all out on point, and the setting triangles are the light green as well. That blue background is very bright and the dusky pink helps to tone it down, but that green really helps to bring the two together nicely I think.

It makes a nice sized lap quilt, or a childs quilt. I might put a border on, I might not. All of the stars and the colorful patches in the sashings are from my scrap box, woohoo! ... although you can't tell as I have sooo many scraps! LOL... For now it got put away as I feel like quilting one of my very favorite tops.

I made this Irish Stars top (pattern) a year or so ago, and have always loved it. Earlier in the year I bought enough backing for 2 quilt tops, and this is the first one I'm going to quilt. I'm pinning it now. (For those who don't know, that's whats called a sandwhich: top, batting and backing being pinned/basted together.)

I got about 3/4 thru this and noticed that a bit of batting, almost in the center of the quilt, is bumped up a bit. SIGH~ that means I have to unpin part of it, smooth out the batting and repin. What  a pita! So I'll hopefully get to that sometime this week and finish pinning it.

Thanks for stopping by and sticking to the end of my long post. Blogger is being fussy, so I hope I can post this.

Dorian