Majestic Autumn

I guess I have some catching up to do.  As many

of you know this has been a big travel year for me.

I think I have been away as much as I have been

home.  Between mid-May and mid-September, I

traveled over 50,000 air miles and then there were

the additional thousands of miles by car, train,bus,

boats, bikes and elephants. 

The last time I posted on this blog it was still hot

Summer.  Since then I have been busy as always,

just not blogging about it.  In September I went 

to Alaska for a big quilt retreat and I will be writing

about that soon.  Just after getting back from that

trip my laptop got very sick and had to be sent away

to the hospital.  Sadly all my data was lost including

all my photos.  I am working to get them back and I

will post about the retreat once I have photos again.

When I got back from Alaska I decided I had to 

attend to some chores around my house before

the cold weather set in.  I spent a day painting

my garden shed with primer and in trying to reach

the roof I ended up doing some interesting gymnastic

moves while hanging from the top of the ladder and

I ended up seriously injuring my back.  For quite a 

while every time I tried to move I would actually 

scream, it was very embarrassing.  

Once I got moving about a little better I got to work

and made 7 quilt tops for a new book I am involved

in that will come out in December.  I wrote a chapter

of the book and my chapter alone has 8 different quilt

designs.  I am working on a new lecture about my

chapter in this book.  Here is the book if you are 

interested in pre-ordering: 

 http://www.ctpub.com/75-fun-fat-quarter-quilts/

Now it is on to the quilting and binding of these

quilts.  Perfect work for this time of year as the days

are getting colder.

I took a nice long hike in the woods today and thought 

I'd share some photos from this beautiful Fall day.