Yes, those are trumpets you lot hear announcing the near-finish of It's Raining Cats together with Dogs. I'm non certain but...[checks notes]...yes, genuinely this is the quilt I've been working on for the longest menses of fourth dimension from start to finish. It was started on Dec 12, 2013, together with it even thus has most some other calendar week to instruct earlier it volition endure finished. It'll endure bumping Wind inward the Whiskers from its longest-running-from-start-to-finish perch.
Of course, it even thus needs binding. Here's how it looks from the back.
Yesterday I had exactly the borders left to quilt. I had inward hear to exercise a serial of stylized cats. This is from an icon I establish on Pinterest. The afternoon before, I'd drawn it out roughly earlier my pen stopped writing. It isn't peculiarly neat, but I was trying to reckon if I had fifty-fifty a snowball's direct chances of drawing it at all.
And I was pretty certain I could. But thus I lay awake that black trying to envision it inward the outer edge of the quilt. It's a directional motif, together with thus how would it hold off on the quilt sides? And would I quilt it going the same management inward the transcend together with bottom borders? Or would ane edge direct keep the truthful cat upside down? And when my encephalon started smoking at all that thinking, I bagged the whole thought together with did something to a greater extent than symmetrical amongst this heart-shaped plumage for the outer border.
It wasn't the to a greater extent than daring choice, but it was the smarter one. The inner edge was finished upwardly inward the "paper clip" motif started the afternoon before.
Still, I wanted some cats, together with thus I quilted this problem drawing of a truthful cat inward each of the iv cornerstones.
And when it was all finished, I took it downstairs for the quilt inspectors to direct keep their say. And geez. the bureaucatic carmine record ane has to wade through to instruct a couplet of quilt inspectors to hold off at your quilt. Sadie was busy amongst the hummingbirds exterior the window.
Smitty was staging a total blown mewtiny.
I disapurrove of whatsoever quilt that expurressly states "no dogs," together with thus includes dogs. It's cypher curt of an abomination! It's completely purrposterous!
Yeah, I reckon what you lot mean, Smitty. That is purrculiar, for sure.
But doesn't this catnip dispensary brand you lot desire to cry out loud? I'm giving a big HUZZAH! for that constituent of the quilt!
And it gets an A+ for snuggleability. It makes me desire to snoozle upwardly together with direct keep a nap.
Okay, thus mixed reviews from the quilt inspectors. I retrieve Smitty volition come upwardly around. He was exactly using the "no dogs" affair to direct keep the afternoon off.
After dinner final night, I spent a lilliputian fourth dimension on Tree #11 for Twelve Trees for Christmas. The torso of this tree is stitched inward "woven create total stitch," which was novel to me. It sounded tardily plenty though, together with thus I stitched it up. Only, I did it all wrong, together with the woven lawsuit was lost. Then I went dorsum together with read the instructions for the stitch again. You tin rank notice see how it's done on Mary Corbet's Needle 'n Thread correct here. My error was making the vertical stitches besides unopen together. Mine were done to a greater extent than similar a satin stitch, together with it was nearly impossible to "weave" the horizontal stitches across. So I took it out together with did it over again. When I was finished, it looked similar this.
The sides are also stitched to a greater extent than or less inward stalk stitch.
So there's much to a greater extent than to exercise on this tree. For this one, I'll endure doing a "griffin stitch," which doesn't hold off besides scary.
Also, I'll endure doing a "buttonhole scalloped chain stitch," which looks decidedly scary. I'll say to a greater extent than most both stitches every bit I exercise them. Fingers crossed they don't rank me besides much trouble.
Next on the agenda is to run upwardly the binding on It's Raining Cats together with Dogs. I'll endure using that same aqua colored cloth used for the inner border. The strips are cut, but I even thus require to run upwardly them together together with thus run upwardly them to the quilt. Oh yes, together with let's non forget that delightful pace of squaring it up.
There powerfulness non endure much fourth dimension for sewing today. Our pest command service is coming to a greater extent than or less to exercise an application. (Not certain I require to endure hither for that since they entirely require to endure outside.) Also, I require to brand a come across town to instruct to the postal service office, together with I direct keep a curt listing for the grocery store. I'll exercise my major grocery shopping adjacent calendar week inward grooming for Thanksgiving. (Teeth chattering inward anticipation of that horror show.) I'm doing the cooking this year. And, honestly, I only must exercise some housework today. (See, "I'm doing the cooking this year," above. Visitors volition endure here.) And cheers to all of you lot who raised your fist inward procrastination solidarity. I knew I'd detect a sisterhood inward Blogland. So, I'm wishing for sewing today, but entirely fourth dimension volition tell. As my dearest father-in-law used to say, "Wish inward ane mitt together with sh*t inward the other, together with reckon which mitt fills upwardly first."