Autumn Quilt Progress

I made some progress on the autumn quilt tonight.  I didn't get as much done as I would have liked because I had some issues with my sewing table and then ran out of bobbin.  I figured that meant it was time to take a break for the night.  Up next is to finish the remaining 6 blocks that need the green frame and then it's on to adding a gold frame.  

Here's the border fabric for the quilt.  You can get a sense of where the colors in this kit came from and that it truly is an autumn quilt.

So here's the broken sewing table. My pedal usually goes on this platform, but as you can see by these pictures, the platform that usually lies a few inches from the ground broke off from the rest of the sewing table.  :(  I'm going to have the hubby take a look at this weekend to see if he can do something.  I really liked how this table had this platform because I'm so short and it allowed me to sit taller so that I'm at a better height to the table.

Autumn Quilt Kit

A few years ago I bought this quilt kit at an after Christmas sale at 50% off.  It looked like a pretty easy quilt, and the colors were really nice.  I decided that it was too cute and too good a deal to pass up.  Believe it or not, it was the first quilt kit I had ever purchased.  I much prefer to pick out my own fabric and deign the colors. That's half the fun of quilting anyway.  

When I got home, I realized I grabbed the wrong kit. :(  It was the same pattern, but had some slightly different fabrics.  I thought it was the same one, but it wasn't.  I had picked the package that was in better shape.  Because I wasn't too keen on the fabrics/colors in this quilt, it went into my pile of fabric and was forgotten for a while.  

Well, yesterday I pulled out the kit and decided that it was time to put this thing together.  There's one fabric in there that I would NEVER have picked.  It's a really burnt or rust colored orange. (seen below)  I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but orange has to be my least favorite color.  I like it with some other color combinations, but it just doesn't do much for me.  I thought about replacing the fabric with another one from my stash, but I realized that I would never use it in anything else, so why not use it now.

Here are a few pictures of my progress.  It calls for two more frames around the diamond and some sashing in between the 20 blocks.  It's definitely going to be an autumn quilt.

The next color to go on is a green, followed by a gold, then some deep gray sashing.  More on that later.