I have lived most of my life in the Pacific Northwest where autumn rolls in dramatically with heavy rains and a sudden drop in temperatures. I’ve wrapped my annual body clock around that change, but here we are in October in SoCal and still wearing tank tops and getting sunburnt on the weekends. My body can’t seem to figure out that it actually is fall. But where’s the cold? the rain?
For example, this was last Sunday, October 6. High of 90°F at Disneyland. Seriously? This is fall?
Of course, if you ask my fellow Californians, the ones who lived most of their lives here, they’ll tell you it is definitely fall. The temperatures are cooling down (into the 70s? oh brr!), the morning marine layer is more common, the leaves are beginning to drop. So I guess this is how fall rolls in down here, gently and with sunshine. I like it.
Quilt Market is just around the corner, though, along with both of my children’s birthdays, and into the holiday madness of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. I needed something to convince me of these changing seasons, so I decided to make myself a scarf. Robert Kaufman Fabrics has these lovely new Mammoth Flannels which are soft and warm and, if you ask me, they are the perfect colors to get me in the mood for fall.
I was able to get my hands on a small swatch of Carolyn Friedlander‘s new Botanics collection, a fabric that just was calling out to be tagged up with the flannel. The color is Curry and it makes me want Indian food every time I look at it. But I digress, back to making scarves…. I simply cut a couple of width of fabric strips (about 8″ wide), sewed them together, flipped it and topstitched. Bam! A scarf!
Now I don’t really have an excuse to complain about the A/C being on high everywhere I go. I don’t have to be cold in the grocery store anymore because I have a lovely new cotton flannel scarf.
It’s like having autumn wrapped snugly around my neck.
In fact, they had two shops downtown. 
