My Pumpkin Patch

I'm not really growing pumpkins. Remember these orange fabrics I showed you before we left Albuquerque? Now that we are officially into fall, this past week I took a short break from my Thru Grandmother's Window blocks to get a little work done on a pumpkin quilt. The pattern is When the Frost in on the Pumpkin from the book Country Quilts for Friends by Margaret Peters and Anne Sutton.

I was only going to trace the pumpkins onto the background fabric. But then, I thought I might as well baste a few of the stems on so they'd be ready to go when I had a few minutes. Well, after doing that I just had to do a couple of the pumpkins to see how they'd look, right? Here are the first six:

I think they're going to be a lot of fun. The only problem I see is that the background fabric may show through on some of the lighter pumpkin fabrics. Once I have them all done and put together I may cut out the background fabric from behind the pumpkins. I don't usually do this when I appliqué, but will probably do it on this quilt. 

I wonder if I can actually have them done before fall is over. We'll see.