Room With A View..........

Hello friends!! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. It finally quit raining here, and the leaves are just starting to turn.

This is the view from my sewing room window. Hopefully I'll be able to share a weekly picture of this tree changing its color. Some folks are predicting a colorless fall for our area. I hope the leaves just don't dry up and fall off....we'll all have to wait and see together.

Last week was gloomy and rainy. When my dog doesn't get his daily walks, he's a pistol.

In an effort to entertain him, I hid treats in the paper and boxes that normally store my Halloween decorations.

Cooper was entertained for a good while but I'm not sure what to do about storing the Halloween decorations. I guess I'll worry about that November 1st.

I've been happily working away on my October Schnibbles project.

For those not familiar, this is the pattern that was selected for October for "The Year of Schnibbles" challenge.

The September Schnibble was frustrating for me, I struggled with my fabric choices. No problems in that area this month. I'm exchanging the Grinch green for blue, otherwise mine is the same. If it were up to me, I never would have made this quilt, but I'm loving it as it comes together. It appears as if I'm going to have a quilt that I really like, that I would not have made if it weren't for the Schnibbles project.

I was good with fabric from my stash for the red and blue stars but needed gold and background fabric for this pattern. I had never paid much attention to gold fabric, but I'm an expert now. It's hard to find gold toned fabric. I found gold with a hint of brown, gold with a hint of yellow, and gold with a hint of orange. I don't have much in the way of quilt shops here but I did drive 45 minutes one way to a quilt shop only to come home empty handed.

I then turned to the internet.

This fabric was part of a set of 10 fatquarters. It looked gold online, and the description said it was gold..it's not gold, it's yellow. It's not even close to gold. I now own 10 fatquarters of black and yellow fabric.
This fabric was also billed as gold, but to my dismay, it's more of a mustard color. Maybe it will work in some scrappy quilt down the road.

The background on this fabric is gold, but the green does not go at all. I really do think I may use this fabric some time.

Here are the fabrics that I found and plan to use. Not perfect, but I've discovered once I put them in the blocks they look fine. "Sometimes good is good enough".

My internet purchase for the background fabric isn't exactly working out, but I'll save that story for tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by!!

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Schnibbles 'n Bits..........

I got enough fabric cut and geese made for my Winter White Schnibbles project that I can play around and try to come up with the perfect combination.  One of the things about this pattern that appeals to me is Miss Rosie's use of contrast.  I hope I can be as happy with my combinations since I'm using different fabric.  

I'm using Gobble Gobble, by Sandy Gervais for Moda.

First attempt,  dark small squares with orange inner  geese, multi-colored outer geese, light corner squares.  Pretty Good but I think I can do better. (1)

A whole different direction, light small squares with orange inner  geese , multi-colored outer geese, dark small corner squares.....I'm not liking the corner squares, is it me not getting the right combination, it just looks too busy, nothing like the pattern picture. (2)

How about this combination, dark small squares with beige inner geese, multi colored outer geese in order, light large squares.....I substituted large squares for the 4 multi squares.  I like this better.  Is it because my fabric print is large? (3)

Maybe this, light small squares with orange inner geese, multi colored outer geese in same order, dark large squares.....(4)

Here they are on my design wall....I think the light has a better over all look but I favor the dark....ugh

Another try, light small squares with multi-colored  inner geese in  random order, beige outer geese, dark large squares.  I'm really liking the beige outer geese. (5)

One last attempt, light small squares with orange inner geese, beige outer geese, dark large squares.....(6)

No really, this is my last attempt, light small squares with multi-colored inner geese in  corresponding columns, beige outer geese, dark large squares.....(7)

I think I may be over thinking this....I just can't get my fabric to pop like the picture on the pattern...I'm not sure what I'll do.

Are you wondering what Cooper was up to while I was playing with my Gobble Gobble.....

He was at the beauty shop....he came home wearing a tie.....and looking like a poodle.  

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