Almost Thanksgiving!

 Geez, where has November gone?

 We had a way too short visit by Amanda! She had some genealogy stuff to do in Trenton and Philly, so she flew in to stay with us and use my car. We had a wonderful day at Heather's where they made pumpkin rolls and Jules and I supervised.

 We even had a bonus Boone visit! We invited Boone and her parents to Heather's for pizza and cousin time. Boone is at the stage where she doesn't really like anyone but her parents.

 Morgan had a birthday, so John sent us this pic of them.

 I have five bowl cozies ready to go to Heather's house. I ran out of wrap n zap, so had to switch to Christmas pillowcases. The order of wrap n zap should arrive today.

 The first of the pillowcases. Even with having written down the measurements the last time I made any, which is probably 10 years ago, it took me a minute to get the first one done. 

I also started a scrap afghan, to have something to do with my hands when watching TV.

The weight loss journey continues, I've lost 40 pounds. The last two weeks I've been stuck, up a pound, down a pound. But I'm sticking with it, I have a lot to go yet. 

Bowl cozy

 For bowl cozy #2 I went up a size template, and made the darts shallower. I also only used one square of wrap n zap.

 It looked so big, yet held the bowl just fine. I think I'm going back to 2 squares of wrap n zap. 

I've been using the treadmill 5-6 times a week. 12 minutes at 1 mph gives me .2 miles, or about a thousand steps. It's .2 miles to the first cross street from the house. I'm reasonably happy with the progress. 

Moving along

 Manda and I decided to name the wallhanging The Rainbow Connection because, Muppets!

Next up, bowl cozies! This first one came out smaller than I expected, I think I'll try making the darts shallower. Jules has already claimed this one, and Manda sent me a list of colors she wants! I'm going to need more Wrap n Zap. 

 

Today is the last day of the season for Weber's Drive In, so we went yesterday for lunch. Great smashburgers! 

It's been so chilly that I had to switch to long pants! 

It's done!

 I did three strips today!

 Orange!

Pink!

 

Red!

Ta Da! They are just hung with binder clips, so not all are straight, and they are not equidistant to each other. I just wanted a pic of them all together, how they will look on Manda's stairs. 

I'm happy with how the strips came out. I did each strip a color, so it kind of gives a rainbow effect. Plus, it should help with the acoustics at Manda's house. 
 

 

Yellow

 The yellow strip is done! John Deere fabric, for my son in law Ben!

 And I can't remember if I posted green, so here it is:

 Ben is from Nebraska, and the John Deere is a running thing we have. 

I just have orange, pink and red to go. 

Backing

 Now I'm working on backing the strips. I decided to start with the shortest first, the purple, to make sure my technique would work.

 It worked, yay! So then I went to the longest, the blue.

 I'm backing with the color of the strips.

I started the greens, but found an error. I had two blocks with up and down strips together, so I took it apart and fixed it. I decided on a backing fabric, then ran out of steam and stopped for dinner. 

And more strips

 Sewing the strips has been addicting! And the piles of scraps are not going down!

 Pink!

Red!

And, last but not least, purple!

I recognized so many of the fabrics, but there were some that I had no clue what they were from. I started quilting in 2003, the year Eddie was born, and I think some of the scraps are from those early years, others very recent. 

I did ten minutes on the treadmill today, as well as my home PT, and my legs are tired! But I feel stronger! So now it's time to sit and rest for a while.

Next step, backing each strip.