Fall is just around the corner

We here in Massachusetts got up to mighty cool temperatures this morning.  It made me realize that ever though the leaves have not started tuning that fall is just around the corner.  Yesterday I made another market bag out of the carrot fabric to replace the one that had sold and realized that what I was working with was Halloween colored fabrics. Why not make a coiled basket or bowl out of what was left?  I am always amazed how different the fabrics look once they are wrapped around the rope.  This carrot fabric did not let me down in this regard.  It changed into something rather different but VERY pleasant.  Since the idea was to make a Halloween candy bowl, I used all of the fabrics that I had used in the market bag.  I wanted to not do just strips so I alternated the green strips (22" long) with the carrot fabric strips (18" long) and got a very unexpected result.  As the fabrics were sewn into the coil, they lined up with themselves giving me a divided bowl - the green on one side and the carrot fabric on the other.  I used lime green thread on top and black thread in the bobbin so the outside of the bowl does indeed look different than the inside which is also kind of neat.  I really liked the looks of that wrapped carrot fabric so I figured I might as well use all of it up so I made another bowl today.  This one is by far the largest bowl I have made to date.  It is definitely going out in the gallery for sale and if it doesn't sell before the Garlic & Arts Festival, which is the first weekend in October, I am sure it will find a new home then!