Last night I finished sewing the top border of the second Dear Jane quilt that I am making “Insanity Revisited” I still have quite a few triangles to go, but it is nice having that one done. The color actually is pretty accurate for a change. I stuck it to the wall and had one of the Ott lights shining on it and it turned out for a change.
Yesterday afternoon we went to the Fall Festival in Russellville. At times I wonder why we bother, there really isn’t all that much there to look at other than the old cars. I think at times it has turned out to be more of an old car show than anything else. It is advertised as a Chili Cookoff and they do have a lot of people there with their own recipe of chili, you can purchase a ticket and try out all the different kinds if you want. I don’t care to as some are way more spicy than I like – Mike doesn’t because he is very picky about food and knows he likes mine and doesn’t know if he will like someone else’s 
We wander around looking at cars and the few booths around – this year I was amazed to see there was no farmers market at all!! How can you have a fall festival without any farmer’s market? They also advertise arts/crafts – I saw very little in that area that would interest most. Next year we might just skip it – I only ran into one person I knew and Mike saw about 3 guys he used to work with. Here are some of the cars:
This one brought back memories of the 70’s:
And this one made use of a tiny car by turning it into a hot dog stand – very inventive:
When we got done with the festival – which took all of an hour or less we took a drive on the back roads over to Mt. Magazine – the highest point in Arkansas at about 2,500 feet?
A very pretty park. We have never camped there for one reason or another but have been through it many times over the years. The scenery you see from one point. It has been such a dry year that the fall color was not great – we were hoping for some views of fall color.
A little bit of color here, nice old stone wall with a bent up tree by it, a little bit of yellow and red in the bushes nearby.
Arkansas has some of the best state parks that we have seen. Most have been renovated and updated facilities and visitor centers in recent years. Most have very nice campgrounds. We have rarely been disappointed in Arkansas state parks.
Now I guess it is back to work on quilting and yard work today. I have not touched the quilt on the frame since I last showed it at the beginning of last week.
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) and the other is a little harder but not a lot. If I get done with both of those tomorrow that will leave 3 borders left to make triangles for 13 in each – 39 left to make.
such trouble with the Irish Chain blocks this month. I finally gave up with the sewing machine today and sat and relaxed and did the last two blocks by hand!! they turned out perfect. 
You might want to check out their web page and see what they have – they ship everywhere I believe. The prices listed on their internet store is per yard not half yard like a lot of places do.
