A Penny Village for November

I finished a new quilt this week.  It's an autumn quilt which I love because it echos what is happening outside my windows.  It snowed a bit for the first time of the season yesterday, but the color lingers on especially along Seven Peaks Boulevard.

This quilt is called "Penny Village" for the wool buildings along the edges and the round wool stacked pennies.

I love applique with wool, so satisfying.  The pattern was a freeby from Corn Wagon Quilts during a shop hop in 2013.  It was my absolute favorite from all the shops that year.  They still sell it along with kits, but I picked my own wools and fat quarters for my version.

Another fireplace quilt.  I may just make one for every month.

I love November.  It's my birthday month and the time of my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.

It will be a Utah Thanksgiving this year, so I brought these guys north with me my last trip.

A couple of years back we purchased this work of art from Lynn Curley.

Yesterday I noticed that the back inside cover of the November Ensign looked amazingly like the right side of our painting and it was also by Lynn but with an additional last name so she must have married. They are not exactly the same but it is a fun connection!

So, it is my birthday today as well as the birthday of my blog which is seven years old and has been such a great gift from my DIL Sally who first created it for me.  It reached a landmark of its own this week of 100,000 page views.  Such a simple thing just "A Place to Share."

What I've been working on

I have all four village borders finished for my "Penny Village" wall hanging.  Now I'm constructing the middle from these fun rectangles and square in a square blocks for the corner blocks in black and gold.  I've also been cutting out 48 pennies (circles) which will decorate the square in a square blocks and a matching black border between the village border and the busy middle.  Love, love working on a project will fall colors while it is also fall outside.  My goal is to have it finished by Nov. 1 which may be too ambitious.  All those pennies may take some time.

 

I also completed ten Lesson 9 blocks for my Farmer's Wife Revival quilt.  Just 20 more to go!

 

I took this picture at American Quilting.  My sister and I bought some fat quarters of this fabric some time ago.  She has been busy with new grandsons on opposite coasts so we haven't cut into it.  Maybe by next Halloween.  I just wanted to make sure I remembered how they highlighted the focus fabric.

What I've been sewing

I've completed Set 8 of the Modern Farmer's Wife Revival Craftsy class by Karen Walker.  There were eleven blocks in this set.  I now have 81 blocks completed.  I bought some additional fabric to go with the Chloe's Picket Fence line from Moda that I purchased years ago.  I felt like I needed some more neutral and smaller prints so bought some cream with dots, pink with small dots, and added the small green gingham print that I had in my stash.  I haven't got a clue as to what I will use for sashing.  There are 31 blocks to go.

I love working on a seasonal project during the season.  I am making an autumn project to hang in the fireplace opening.  This is a free pattern, Penny Village, from Corn Wagon Quilts which I received during a Quilt Shop Hop over a year ago.

I have been working on the four side borders.  I traced the above pattern on freezer paper, cut out the shapes, and lightly ironed freezer paper pattern to the wool pieces, then cut the pieces out.  The freezer pieces were good for several pressings so I cut all the wool pieces for each panel out and put the pieces in four zip loc bags.

One panel also has most of the embroidery work finished.  I have started the second panel. The fabric in the background will be a border as well as the binding.

Those are the fabrics I will use for a patchwork middle.  I love this project and was lucky enough to hit the wool scrap basket on a good day at the quilt shop.

I finished the applique poinsettia for Saturday Sampler 2014/2015.  This will be a lovely Christmas quilt.  So there you have it, three very diverse but fun projects.