It was a decent solar daytime inwards weather condition yesterday. Did I operate out for a walk? Of course of report not. There was sewing to survive done, in addition to I practice receive got my priorities. How many times practice nosotros receive got to become over this? My slow-stitching consisted of hand-sewing the binding for the Alley Cats Quilt Guild, in addition to that picayune quilt is my sixth complete for the calendar month of January.
Here's how it looks from the back.
While I was sewing, the kitties were exploring the keen outdoors. Sadie e'er has to cheque the pelting gutters off our deck for whatever birds that powerfulness survive perched there. One never knows.
C'mon, Sadie...we've got bigger mousies to fry.
Ordinarily, Smitty is the laissez passer on shelf cat, but sometimes Sadie asserts her dominance.
Sadie, I'm going to cutting you lot around slack in addition to ignore your impurrtinence.
After writing yesterday's post, it occurred to me that quite a few truthful cat quilts receive got been added to the Mewseum, in addition to I should give you lot an updated tour. You tin come across the kickoff quilts added at this onetime spider web log post service correct here. But allow me telephone band inwards the Mewseum purrator to receive got us on a tour.
Purrmit me...
This kickoff quilt was a brand in addition to receive got projection from a course of report I took amongst June Jaeger several years ago. June's truthful cat is named Samson. This was the projection that helped me larn on my way making pawtraits, although mine are quite dissimilar from the ones June makes.
The kickoff 1 I made afterward taking the course of report was this 1 of Gracie. There are around things I'd practice differently if I did it again, but it wasn't a bad kickoff try. We immature adult woman our Gracie.
Right away, I made around other 1 of Smitty. He was simply virtually a twelvemonth onetime when I made this one, in addition to his human face upward has filled out quite a chip since then. If I were to brand around other 1 of him, I hollo back it would await a lot different.
Here's pretty Maggie. We didn't receive got her for real long, in addition to she was such a sweetness kitty. Sniff.
And hence there's Sadie. Hers was the most hard of the pawtraits I've done because of the variation inwards her colors. My friend Sally from Objects of Design was sort plenty to shipping me around keen batiks to use. I dubiousness I could receive got done this 1 without Sally's input of fabric.
This 1 is called "Sew Helpful." I made it when Smitty was a kitten in addition to chose those spotted fabrics especially for him. Let's simply country he was a real active kitten.
This 1 is called "Feed the Cat." It's practically our motto hither at the Three Cats Ranch.
This side yesteryear side 1 is called "Mom Cats." Their aprons are made from my grandmother's vintage handkerchiefs.
I receive got an catch to brand around to a greater extent than quilts from my grandmother's dresser scarves in addition to around embroidered tea towels, but I haven't fifty-fifty started on that yet. I receive got tons of her materials inwards my mother's cedar chest, in addition to it hasn't seen the lite of solar daytime inwards decades. Time to choose it out in addition to practice something amongst it.
As for yesterday's sewing, I don't know virtually you, but I can't sew together properly until I operate out ALL of my rulers.
So I made the mo block of the Moda Countdown to Christmas blocks. This 1 was pretty fiddly, amongst Y-seams, in addition to non especially helpful instructions. I got 'er done without besides much cussing.
Here are the ii blocks for January.
After that, I pulled around fabrics for my dark-green squirrel project. I wasn't certain what I'd desire to use.
It didn't receive got long earlier I had the quilt equally you lot become part done.
After that, I fused the shamrocks into place. I wishing in that location was a picayune to a greater extent than contrast, but oh well. They'll survive top-stitched amongst off white thread. I powerfulness practice a double blanket stitch to brand them stand upward out a picayune more.
Here's how it looks from the back.
Smitty tested it for comfort.
I'll practice the top-stitching this afternoon. That's virtually equally far equally I tin receive got that until the dark-green jumbo rickrack arrives. When that gets here, I'll stitch it into house in addition to hence add together that dark-green stripe inwards the ikon inwards a higher house for the binding. If I tin larn it finished inwards January, that volition brand seven finishes for the month! No flies on me.
Sue in addition to I are walking at the bottom of our colina this morning, in addition to it looks similar the weather condition volition survive dry. Always a skillful thing. After that, I'll larn dorsum to my sewing. Today's innovation is to start on Cricket's pawtrait.