Fall Bazaar

Fall Church Bazaar
Elderly ladies guild.

Here my mother quilts.

Collage

Vintage Feedsack Fabric Apron inspired by woodcutting outings.

Trees and limbs and the leaves fall one by one muting the colors. The predominant pattern is the leaf or branch that has just fallen or is about to.

Fallen birch rain painted onto the forest floor. Fiber art quilt and apron inspiration.

Picking Fall Colors

Warm Knitted Mitts for picking pumpkins.

Pumpkins at Hollyhock Junction (And one yellow hollyhock bloom. (End of summer.)

Piecing Together Fall Colors

Piecing Together Fall Colors.

...seed time and harvest...this is my favorite time of year.

Folk Art Garden Decor

After the Leaves Leave--
Don't throw away your old leaf rake-- or your garden rake either! (creative problem solving while cleaning the shed.)

Bluebird Pillow.

EMBROIDERED BLUEBIRD: vintage homespun linen pillow slip.

"The buebird carries the sky on its back."Thoreau

October Sky
The bluebirds are flocking together and ready to go!
Today is overcast, drizzle rain, and a little bit gray. Like linens after much use and many washings.
The whitest white on the painter's palet (the white of snow in winter), has a touch of blue in it, and on wash day, bluing is sometimes added to the rinse water to bring gray goods back to blue white again...

Vintage bluing bottle, and handmade Fimo clay bottle top: Wash Woman Tinting the Linens Blue.