Those November Quiltvillians!

It's super early Tuesday morning as I write this - Here in the PNW it's 6:30am which means it's 9:30am back home and all of the November Quiltvillians are headed home in all of their directions.
Hubster Dave should just about be touching down at Tri Cities airport for his drive home after his long red eye flight.
Jason is sleeping - though I know from the sounds I heard through the night that he was having a rough go of it.
But today he gets his stitches out!
With my flights being Sunday (of the fall back an hour Sunday, and then flying across country where the time change them feels more like 4 hours than 3 and having crummy weather forecasted for several days, we opted for our one nice and sunny afternoon BEFORE the time change to take our over-the-porch-rail photos.

With such a gorgeous sky as our backdrop!

Old Town on the left - the colors were inspired by the view across the street from the inn last year!

Color inspirations for quilts are everywhere.  

Lovely sampler on the right - if you have pattern info please leave it in the comments section below.

So much going on here!

This Old Town finish has navy as a background instead of neutral - what a dramatic difference this makes!

It's followed up with some pieced cone flowers, The beginnings of Wanderlust from the Addicted to Scraps book  and a vey modern  quilt made with rectangles. If you know the info on this pattern, please put it in the comments below.

Here's another more full out view of the Old Town with the Navy background -with the view across the street that inspired the colors in the previous one shown!

And full out over the rail!

Blooming nine -patch and another gorgeous Old Town!

Licorice Twist  and a cozy Scrappy Mountain Majesties from the Free Patterns tab  using recycled shirts.

And this photo shows how Barbara used shirt backs as her backing - There is a huge amount of fabric in one XXL man's shirt!

Bitcoin, bargello  & Allietare, an earlier Quiltville Winter Mystery!

Even Allietare got a wonderful scrappy backing!

Do you remember way back when we did Orca Bay as our quiltville Winter Mystery? The pattern is now found in my book String Fling.

Next to it in lovely pinks and browns is Smith Mountain Morning from Scraps & Shirttails II.

Just in time for the holidays!

If you know the pattern info, please put it in the comments below.

Pineapple Crazy finish from String Fling.

I feel the need to stitch something super stringy and super scrappy coming on! 

I'm so glad that I got to spend time with this wonderful group of ladies!

Travel home safely, everyone!

Dinner out with my guys after arriving in Vancouver, Washington!

The time for all three of us to be together was way too short, but Hubster Dave really needed to get home.  He's been out here for two weeks, through Jason's surgery and his recovery to this point.

I'm ready for my turn to be mom and chauffer!'

Yesterday we made a trip to Costco where I picked up ingredients as well as some ready-to-heat meals to make things easy.

We've got movies and shows to watch, conversations to have, and of course hexies to be stitched.

But first today - getting those stitches out.

We've also made plans to visit a museum or two while we are here - it's rainy and dreary out, but we can walk around inside museums and that's the best thing that Jason can do right now is to walk.

The thing he is most nervous about right now?  Not the removal of the stitches - it's that MOM will be driving his precious car. As if I haven't been driving for 45 years.  But okay.

And since I haven't been able to post since Saturday did you know this is still going on?

The folks at Summit St are offering up TWO of the newest I'd Rather Be Sewing boxes in our Gift-Away, AND their newest of fun things for sewists: A My Stitchy Plushy!

Okay, this is the cutest thing.

You'll find these items as well as all of the Summit St box designs on their website HERE.

We'll have THREE winners!  Get your entry in on the Gift-Away Post.

We'll draw for our winners on Saturday 11/8/25.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Okay, time to get a grown man-child up for some breakfast and get ready to head on out.

Have a terrific Tuesday, everyone -