A New Shirt

The little scarecrow has a new shirt and I think it looks pretty good.   Down on the Farm is officially done!  We are hoping to  see the new baby, John over the Thanksgiving holiday.   Michelle has to work Thanksgiving Day, so we are still figuring out our plans.

I decided I wanted to make a zipper bag.  I used LuAnn's tutorial.  I have a zipper phobia.  I haven't put a zipper in anything since I was in high school.  It was an awful experience and I've just always avoided making anything with a zipper.  I've been saving tutorials for bags.  There are so many cool patterns on blogs now.  When I was at the Quilter's Corner last time I looked at their bag patterns and of course they had the turny thing full of Terry Atkinson's Snip, Zip and Go zippers.   I decided to buy a couple, so I bought a orange one and a black one, because Halloween was coming.

Here it is--with it's orange zipper.  I probably would rather have had a pink one, but this one will be for me.  It is my "over coming zipper phobia" bag.  I used two fat quarters and will have two bags.  The inner lining is pink--no picture.   Since I used fat quarters I didn't have fabric for a handle, so I have a handle made from different fabric.  I just used some yellow ribbon for a zipper pull.  

I used the left over batting from around the edges of the  baby quilt and quilted a grid pattern with the #4 stitch on my Bernina  2.0 length.  I like that little squiggle stitch.  I can see some more of these in my future.  I think my girls would like them.  I'll have to wait until I go somewhere for more zippers.  

The weather has gotten colder here and there is a touch of snow in the air.  They came to combine our sunflowers today.  I had meatloaf and baked potatoes in the oven for dinner, but switched to making ham sandwiches for a field lunch.  I baked chocolate chip cookies this morning, so they got some of those too.

Rocco spent part of the morning outside in his flannel shirt.  He's warming up his feet on the heating pad, so he can go out again.

Our quilting group meets tomorrow night.  We are going to work on another "fire" quilt from donated fabric.  I hope the farm schedule allows me to go--we'll see.