Hello all, Mary Ellen here.

What a beautiful morning we have today! The first canine perambulation of the day was so refreshing! Both of us enjoyed meeting some of the neighbors out walking too, since many of them are working today due to the holiday.

I’ve been playing with a new computer program (EQ7 is new to me and my Mac) which makes it so easy to move the placement of values in a quilt block. I once heard a big name quilter (can’t recall exactly which one though!) say that “value does all the work, but color gets all the credit!”. Definitely is true.

Here’s a link to a short video (click here) which makes this point so well. I think a fun challenge for our guild might be to choose a block, give just a line drawing to participants, and see what everyone does with it. If we all got one of those dragonfly eye lens that multiply the image, we could have fun looking at all sorts of quilts without having to make them all ourself! Just a thought for whichever member is going to be the next challenge chair.

Heading outdoors now to enjoy our last bit of fall, before Old Man Winter comes to visit.