garden flowers, beginning of elephant baby quilt

After languishing for most of the summer, the hydrangeas are now going crazy:  

Michael picked another beautiful bouquet Sunday morning (9/30) 

and also got pictures of our roses and dark purple iris, still going strong:  

He took Cookie for a walk after that while I had a nice chat with Pat before getting my blog out.  We had a leisurely breakfast before Michael headed in to watch the Ryder Cup while I headed to my studio.  Other than an hour or 2 of reading, I spent the entire day there and it was heaven.  By 8 PM when I went upstairs to join Michael for some TV, I finished quilting the first QoV: 

and also got several more embroideries done:  

I asked Michael to come down at this point and re-arrange my colors, so the yellow and blue got flipped:

I also started sewing my strata to go with my elephant embroideries.  

I had 2-1/2 hours of TV time upstairs (from 8 PM to 10:30), and finally finished a knitting UFO!!!!  I’ll definitely show pictures once I’ve blocked it.

Stash Report – Although I’m still in the red, September was a good month of only using up fabric and not buying any.  I used up 20 yards of fabric, mostly cutting out quilts for retreat, but also some backing for actually quilting some tops.  So, I’m in the red by only 22-1/2 yards….I’ve still got 3 months to claw my way into the black!  Year to date I have bought 187 yards of fabric and used 164-1/2 yards!