:: texture ::

Day 4 for the Fall-O-Ween Blog Hop!  I hope you're enjoying all the posts and free projects.  Did I mention that Pat Sloan has set up a Flickr group page for you to post photos of your finished projects? 

You can find it here. 

It's amazing how fast you guys are in getting these projects completed! 

So, today's topic is TEXTURE.  (ok, for some reason, I suddenly feel like I am back in elementary school where we had to write something about a specific topic each day....)

When I think of fall, the most obvious texture that comes to mind is the dried grass and leaves. 

Yes, this is our yard, and it seems to take FOREVER to rake all those leaves.  But I love to go walking through them, listening to them crunch and swoosh around.  

There is a pumpkin patch nearby that we used to go to when the kids were little.  It was fun to go "crunching" through the fields searching for that perfect pumpkin to carve.

You know, that perfect pumpkin that was just the right size, that would stand upright and not list to one side, that still had a good stem on it to serve as the "handle" for the lid.  And when we found it, we would bring it home and experience another texture that I associate only with the fall....

Pumpkin guts!  Eeeoowwww!  It was always Tom's job to clean the pumpkin out, because I didn't like doing that part.  The thing I liked doing was the carving...

I don't know if you can see it, but there is some kind of ghostly ghoul carved into that pumpkin.  I don't carve pumpkins like that any more, but it's fun to look back at the photos we took of them.

And tomorrow, we get to talk about clothes, which is another type of texture.  (It's funny how so many of these topics overlap each other.)  So, for today, you need to check out Kari's blog at New Leaf Stitches, to get your free project. 

And leave her a comment so that she knows you were there and you can be in the drawing for the grand prize.  I think that my day for the free project is drawing near, so I'd better get to work and figure out what I'm going to make.  I'll be back tomorrow!!

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Day 1:  COLOR - Gudren of G.E. Designs  (gudrun.typepad.com)

Day 2:  SCENTS - Sandy Gervais of Pieces From My Heart  (piecesfrommyheart-sgervais.blogspot.com)

Day 3:  TASTE - Roseann of Rosebud's Cottage  (rosebudscottage.typepad.com)

Day 4:  TEXTURE - Kari Carr of New Leaf Stitches (newleafstitches.com)

Day 5:  CLOTHES - Terry Atkinson Designs  (terryatkinson.typepad.com)

Day 6:  DECORATIONS - Heather Mulder Peterson of Anka's Treasures (ankastreasures.wordpress.com)

Day 7:  GATHERINGS - Me

Day 8:  TRADITIONS - Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. (lavieenrosie.typepad.com)

Day 9:  HAUNTS - Linda Lum DeBono Designs (lindalumdebono.blogspot.com)

Day 10:  QUILTS - Pat Sloan's Designs (patsloan.typepad.com)

Comments

[Paula Johnson]

Texture makes me think of putting on my shoes again or boots and more cloths of course ands getting out there to clean up the yards and the smell of the fall is in the air.

[Linda P]

Now, that's a ton of leaves in your yard!! I have never been out to a pumpkin patch to select my own pumpkin, but I'll bet it's fun!!

[Grace]

I wouldn't want to have to rake all those leaves! You did a great job on the pumpkin carving!

[Tiffaney]

He looks so happy carving the pumpkin.

[Sue Bennett]

Oh My. I would hate to have to rake all of those leaves. The pumpkin carving looks good.

[Jocelyn]

Wow great pictures! Such fun!

[Cindy Carlson]

Dad used to carve our pumpkins as well. Mom used to pile newspaper under the pumpkin where Dad put the GUTS. OOH, I thought it was so cool to dig through the guts..I must be wierd...LOL

I counted a dozen pumpkins in our small pumpkin patch for the grandkids to pick anyday now. Simple pleasures as we get older.

[Pauline]

Pumpkin guts! Eeeoowwww! When my boys were small......and that's a long time ago....... cleaning out the pumpkins and the carving was my husband's job. Not a fan of pumpkins guts.

You do have a ton of leaves.

Luving the blog hop.

[Angie Wood]

Oh those leaves make me smile. If I had that many leaves then I know my garden would have the grandest soil. We mostly have pine trees so I have to go around asking to rake other peoples leaves.

[Darlene B]

Somehow, when my husband carved pumpkins with our daughters, they never looked as good as yours! Really enjoying this hop...

[Laura Hayward]

Brings back so many memories with my kids. Thanks.

[Claire]

I love the visual textures this time of year-how a leaf curls just before it falls softly to the ground, the ridges in a pumpkin. I also love the tactile texture of the air-you can feel it changing every day, getting colder and crisper and readying itself for winter.
Fun pics of the pumpkin innards.

[Sandy]

The pumpkin guts might not be your favorite but the little one looked enthralled by it! LOL!
Keene, NH is the home of one of the best pumpkin festival ever! You can see some pretty amazing carvings there. Wish the website was more pretty but the experience is great!
http://www.pumpkinfestival.org/

[Lee Ann L.]

The pumpkin guts picture made me smile! :-)

[marie beers]

The leaves in my part of the world (Oregon) haven't fallen to that extent as yet. We have gotten lazy and mow up all the leaves with the mower.

[Sew Create It - Jane]

Pumpkin inners...ooh now that's a texture!

[Sharrieboberry]

Great pumpking carving! My husband won't touch pumpkin guts. I'm the gut-puller-outer in our house. :P

[Polly]

I'm getting a blister just thinking of raking all those leaves!! Polly

[Sandra Cudd]

That is quite a yard full of leaves. It is fun to walk through them and listen to the crunching. My grandsons loved to jump into the piles when we raked ours. Enjoying all the stories you gals are writing.

[Teresa]

That yard does look like a lot of work...but it also looks AMAZING :) What fun!

[Jennifer]

Wow, what a beautiful yard! I love raking leaves, so I would be in heaven! I should take my foreign-born husband to a pumpkin patch this year. He's never experienced one before!

[Robin Crittenden]

leaves, that is definitely a texture of fall.

[Bridgidk]

I miss all the fallen leaves. Can you send some my way? LOL!!!!!

[dawn]

Walking through fallen leaves bring great memories! And pumpkin picking and apple picking...oh so many good fall memories!

[Krist Van Os]

I love carving pumpkins - we always had a neighborhood contest on who's was the better one. It was such fun....

[Judy C]

Pumpkin guts--yuck! I was really glad when my kids learned to do the pumpkins on their own. But it is a part of fall. Thanks.

[Vivian]

Yeah, the kids grow up and don't want to jump in raked leaves anymore.

[Louise]

Wow..it really is Fall there now! All those leaves!

[Bonnie Nyquist]

Pumpkin guts!!! That is so funny,such a cute little guy!! Loving the Blog Hop,looking forward to your project!! Bonnie Nyquist bonniesline at aol dot com

[Beth]

Great pictures!!! loving the hop!!

[Pamela]

Texture is one of the things I love about quilting - don't we all love to "pet" our fabric collection?

[Leslie Schmidt]

Love the picture of your son holding up the pumpkin guts! He was really enjoying that. I think it's a guy thing.

[Brenda]

Love the texture photos, I can feel the slimy pumpkin innards!

[Jackie]

WOW that's some carved pumpkin.

[Wendy]

pumpkin guts ... blah! Plastic gloves and large flat spoons are used here. Icky texture there .... either that or get the kids to do it :)