Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt September Fushia Block

Happy September!!  I am sewing along with the Shenandoah Valley Botanical Quilt project - the pattern is provided by the Virginia Quilt Museum and all pattern sales benefit the museum. Dawn, from Collector with a Needle, and Doreen, from Aunt Reen’s Place, are hosting a quiltalong for this quilt, here.

The pattern size as provided by the museum easily makes 9 inch blocks. I am doing mine in wool so that I can make that size (8 1/2" finished), many are enlarging the pattern and all the participant's resulting blocks are well worth a look...so pretty!

This is my version of the block chosen for September, labelled Serratifolia (known to us today as a "Fushia"):

 I love the quirky shapes in this block and am quite happy with the dark pink wools that I picked for the blooms.

 Here is a picture of the current family of blocks...they are quite a site en masse but are hard to capture in the breeze this morning.  I had to chase two of them across my yard after the photo - wow!!

 A bit of an angle to try to show the texture.

The clouds have been pretty gloomy along with a strong breeze at my favorite time to take photos lately, but the clouds have been pretty to look at between the raindrops.  I got my husband to attend my son's last soccer game in the driving rain earlier this week so I am feeling pretty good about the predicted sunshine at tonight's game I will attend  :)

In other news, I have some new chicks...can you spot the new little boy?  Our rooster is getting pretty old so I asked for a little man to be added to our normal chick order.  He's the little light yellow guy.  

Have a wonderful day!