Leafs me happy

Fall Leafs Me Happy............... Well, as usual I jumped into the fire with both feet......... I was so excited being in another of Madam Samm's blog hop that I failed to really READ all the requirements until last Sunday evening when I thought I had better get to starting something.   I wanted to create (and did) something to give away as a pattern.  and  then while I was reading through of my emails about the hop and noticed that I was supposed to use fall fabric...OOPS!  I was just going to use fall colors.......so I sketched up my pattern to give away and went to pull some fabrics...mmm not much here..so I shelved that I idea and worked on something else.   Then Monday night I grabbed my phone and went tromping in the woods and scouring the woods fall colors since most of the trees are still green or completely brown having died during the extended drought we had earlier, snapping pics............of what normally people think of as a spring flowering tree.  I live right next to the woods, raw, unkempt brushy woods, complete with wild animals, bugs spider webs by the hundreds and weeds, particularly poison ivy and something that grows wild in my area, also known the Missouri state tree....

 

picture of a spring flowering dogwood from Duke University

  

close up from Missouri gardens.

below is a collage of my pictures.....fall dogwood colors

the Flowering Dogwood Tree I was amazed at how how much fall color I found in all the  dogwoods back there even berries.  So I broke off small bits and brought the back to the house where I carefully changed clothes to minimize any exposure to poison ivy and small itchy bugs!!! yikes
I was going to make my own fall fabric, so then I grabbed my tools, fabric, my blue washable pens crayons, and started drawing... and then coloring and not stopping there, followed by some stitching.  Lately, it seems I have to try to put some twilling stitches in everything I do, see below.

At first I was going to leave it but then anyone who know me knows sometimes I just can leave things alone.........and this is what Leafs Me Happy..............

I am really happy about how it turned out.  It has a ruched piped edge.  And yes Madam Samm it is a pillow slip so it may be changed out for different seasons, (or my real reason, washing!!)

sorry this picture is on it's side and fuzzy.

And now for my pattern giveaway, because everyone is a winner here, a new twilled pumpkin click here for PATTERN FREEBIE,download as a PDF. from google docs.

Thank you to Cherry, Cherry Blossom's Quilting Studio And Madam Samms at Sew We Quilt for Doing such a nice job organizing all this fun. Now hop on to these other people's blogs below to see what fall goodness they have. Don't forget next up there will be the Wicked Bog Hop hosted By Casper's best friend WENDY, possbly a Wicked Witch, ( hee hee!!)   on Cherry's sidebar and below ) Mdm Samm will also have a Pinterest page here for all particpants' photos.

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