Time to slow down

What a beautiful Sunday morning. I haven't stepped outside yet to know if it's warm or cool, but the view out the window is great.

I feel well-rested this morning as I sit with my coffee and applique. It would be nice to take the whole morning but there's things that need doing!

I did get a few of my daily hearts sewn for my Quilty365/A Year in My Life...

I feel excited that this quilt will soon be complete. I think my ending date is November 11th, so not long now. I'll probably have to do a bit more to make up the quilt...each row of my quilt is 15 hearts, so it'll take a few more to complete the final row....unless I think of a better ending!

Here is a recent picture of this quilt...

I was thinking this quilt would stand alone with no borders, but now I'm not sure. I do like a nice red border....or maybe I should go with something different for me and do blue???

I find with a scrappy quilt like this that whatever I put on the border, that's the colour that will "pop" in the quilt. I imagine I will do some auditioning of fabrics if I choose to do a border.

Yesterday I went to a Tea/Quilt Show in Port Dover. The tea was very well-done with lovely sandwiches, elegant setting and good company. 

I whizzed thru' the quilt show part of it because I was, for some reason, starting to feel exhausted. I know it's been a busy time lately but this was overwhelming.

I was in bed by 8:30 last night and slept for ten hours....quite unusual for me, but I must have needed it. I feel much better this morning.

I did manage to take a couple of pictures at the quilt show...

I really must get back to appliqueing my Auntie Green's Garden....another two quilts have recently caught my attention! 

One of these quilts happens to be a pattern Kathy talks about today on her blog. Have a visit with her to have a look, and also to see what others are poking at for Slow Sunday Stitching.

I am also linking up with Cynthia at Quilting is More Fun Than Housework for Oh, Scrap!.