It’s almost hard to tell what’s a Squishmallow and what’s a Floofmallow…

The cold weather and frost is well and truly here (though no snow since the day after Hallowe’en) and my gardens are well and truly done for the year. It means I have to turn to my indoor plants for my green and growing fix.

Thankfully, I have lots of those to choose from.

I picked up this new one at Home Depot a couple weeks ago. It’s a Chinese Evergreen. I LOVE plants that have pink in the leaves. But don’t tell Dave how much I paid for it – I thought it was $7 and when I got it to the cash, it was actually $17. But I was too attached by then so it came home.

This one is a couple months old – it’s a type of Inch plant (Tradescantia) – like the bigger ones by super, super tiny. It hangs in the kitchen window and is very happy there – I just recently had to turn it so it would grow more evenly.

This one is several month old too – and I bought it for the pot, not the plant – how cute is that little Axolotl???

And speaking of cute planters….

I picked up this one last time I was down at Mom’s. I bought it for the planter, but also the little black cat pick, AND the plant. It’s a Hoya. I had a Hoya ages ago, which was taking from a cutting from a very old plant (like 30 years old) that my Mom had. Unfortunately, both my cutting and the old plant kicked it several years ago. I’ve been meaning to get another, but for some reason, you don’t see them that often around here. That this one came in a super cute pot was just a bonus. He’s supposed to be hanging in my office, but I haven’t gotten around to putting him up yet.

And last – I’ve been terribly neglectful in sharing pics of the little succulents I got for the wee animal pots Sam brought me last time she visited.

Dave moved some stuff around in the dining room and it made space on the corner hutch from his Grandma. I think they look just perfect all lined up there!

It’s well into November (how did THAT happen???) and Burton is in the need of a November quilt.

On the weekend, we went online to get some inspiration (poppies seemed an appropriate choice), then got to work making some blocks

The great thing about Burton’s chaise quilts are they are small – they go together so quick

This one is actually a little larger (36″ square), but it was still put together in an afternoon. Hopefully we can get it sandwiched, quilted and bound this weekend.

Work continues on the first sleeve, though I did not accomplish as much as I’d hoped I would over the last week…

And this is part of the reason. Almost every time I sat down and picked it up, Lemmy had to come and sit in my lap. And that would be fine… except, he cannot resist the cables on the circular needles.

Andy he’s quite devious about how he grabs them. His favourite way is to lay UNDER the sweater and reach out and grab them when I thinks I’m not paying attention.

Despite his enthusiasm, I have managed to put several more rounds on it. I’m almost through the decreasing. I should have a finished sleeve to show you next week.

We just have to negotiate some boundaries first…

It feels like it’s been AGES since I last showed you anything on my Leader/Ender project. But rest assured, every day I’m sewing, it’s getting a little love.

I managed to get 12 scrappy 16-patches created, but that’s definitely not enough. So I’ve been sewing more scraps into two-patches. I’ve got a good stack now, so the next step it to make them all four-patches… and then eight-patches… before finally becoming more 16-patches.

It’s definitely not my fastest L/E project… but I think it’s going to be one of the coolest!

I have a friend who is having some serious health issues. Naturally I want to help, but being several hours away, it makes it difficult. But I can make her a quilt…

I bought this Jelly Roll ages ago with her in mind. I can’t say why, but when I think of her, these are the colours that come to mind.

I wanted something that will come together fairly quick, so I’m working on a version of the Star Patch Quilt.

I got about half the four patches made last Sunday before I had to stop for the day.

The other strips are all paired and sewn together, so it’s just a matter of cutting them up and sewing them back together again.

Then we get to turn a bunch of them into stars – Burton is very excited about that bit!

I know it seems like all I sew is red and white blocks but… that’s what I got for now (there’s more stuff coming, I promise)

This here is Block 7 (in the back) and Block 2 (in the front). It took us a while to figure out how to make Block 2 work with just two prints, which is why it was sewn last weekend, and not when it came out originally weeks ago.

We now have seven blocks for this sew along. There are five more blocks to come before a Christmas break. But so far, it’s shaping up to be a mighty fine quilt!

While Lemmy had fun the day after Hallowe’en, Burton made the most of the holiday itself.

A while back, while I was ordering a few things for myself, I came across some pet costumes. Burton is so good about wearing his bandanas, that I just couldn’t resist getting him a little something to dress up in for Halloween.

I was very interested to see how he would handle it.

He did NOT dissapoint!!! Look at that pose – isn’t he just the cutest little Vampurr???

He wore it so well!!! I wish I could have taken him outside for the trick-or-treaters – they would have loved him!

But he tends to be on the skittish side around strangers, and I didn’t want to take the chance of him breaking free on me. So we contented ourselves with a little Hallowe’en photoshoot.

Just purrrrrrrfect!

Halloween night was a chilly one here, with even a few snowflakes here and there. That’s not unusual in this neck of the woods. It is, however, unusual to wake up to this the next morning…

Especially because when you went to bed the night before, they were calling for less than 5 cm of snow. But apparently, overnight the wind shifted and we were treated to about 15 cm of “Lake Effect” (ie, thick, heavy, wet) snow.

I guess it’s officially the end of whatever was left in the gardens.

I went out to get the shovels out of the shed, and knock the snow off the catio fence.

Everyone but Lemmy elected to stay inside where it was warm and dry.

He seemed a little unsure at first, though this isn’t his first snowfall – just his first this year. It wasn’t long before he was running, jumping and diving through the snow like a fool.

Temps are back on the rise again (the snow was half melted by late afternoon) with more rain in the forecast, so it won’t stick around for long. But Lemmy is making the most of it while he can.

Here we are… finally onto to the sleeves on the Great Grey Sweater…

At first, it didn’t seem like it was going very fast. I mean… it was faster than that slog on the body, but it still wasn’t going as fast as I thought it would. But… it decreases every seventh round, so after a few rounds, it picked up pace and things started to move a little faster! And I’m about halfway done now – with more decreasing to go. So it can only get faster from here!