Lord Burton would like to remind you, that while the newcomer
might be quite floofy and handsome… there is only ONE Lord here.

Sunday was studio day. First, I took a look at possibilities for the log cabin quilt. To make the patterns whole, I would need 11 more blocks. I had enough pastel batiks I could pull from…

What I didn’t have was enough of the dark blue I used for the doors at the centre of each block. I would need eleven 2.5 inch squares, but I only had enough for eight. So that put paid to the idea of enlarging it. Instead, I’ll have to rearrange the blocks I have.

But that’s for another day, as I have to be in the right state of mind for top assembly. Instead, I turned to another WIP. Back in May, I made a block for a quilt just for me. I decided to pull it out again, and make another.

The pattern is Kitten in Cups by Sew Fresh Quilts. Her patterns are always fun to make… but they do have a lot of pieces!

In fact, the cutting is the most time consuming part. You do have to pay attention, but the block goes together surprisingly quick.

So now we have two kitties!

Once the second block was together, I decided I had enough time to cut all the pieces for two more. That way, when I have time to sew, I can just go straight to it instead of spending all that time cutting.

So the top two boxes have the pieces for one block each – the bottom box had all the extra fabrics (in case I mess up and have to cut more.

The boys are ready to add more kitties to this kaboodle!

Saturday , while babysitting Sad Sack Furby…

I finished up the second Deathflake Hat.

No fancy photoshoot for this one. It’s also harder to see the colourshift in this picture… but it moves from a dark purple to a navy blue. And you’ll notice that nice big puffy pompom. I finally got one full enough.

I re-did the one on the black hat too. Now both can be tucked away until I’m ready to do some wrapping… which should be pretty soon!

Finally….

With the help of not one, but TWO Snooper-floofs! I feel like I made some decent progress on the first witch this weekend.

She now has her second arm (which is holding a candle – that will become more apparent when I add the orange.) And some of the details have been filled in around her. That means next weekend I can finally start on the second witch!

I’d been planning on getting Sir Furbs into the vet soon for a check up… but it ended up happening a little sooner than I planned.

Thursday after work, he had his dinner, and I noticed he was having a little trouble eating. A short while after, he was shaking his head, and crying. Clearly something was wrong with his mouth. He wouldn’t let me take a look, so I got us a vet appointment for Friday afternoon.

He is neutered, so he’s defnitely been to the vet before. I don’t know what his experience was like then, but he certainly wasn’t thrilled about it this time.

He hoped there was escape out the window… but no luck there.

When that didn’t work, he took up residence behind the computer.

In the end, despite some missing teeth and a little tartar, his mouth was fine. The vet said one of the lost teeth looks a little fresh, so that could be what bothered him on Thursday. (Friday they ate fine)

In the end, he got a blood test (and a pretty yellow bandage with piggies), and three vaccines. (FVRCP (Feline Viral Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus, and Panleukopenia), Rabies, and Feline Leukemia Virus) and a clean bill of health.

He came home grumpy, but seemingly no worse for wear. He didn’t want to talk to use for the rest of the night

I figured he’d be fine by morning.

I was wrong. When I got up in the morning, I expected to find him on the couch or in my chair. But he wasn’t in either spot. I had to search for him and eventually found him on the floor under the dining room table.

I pulled him out and he screamed at me. He was one very unhappy kitty. I put him on the couch, but he went right back under the table and stayed there until Dave got up. He came out and sat on the couch with Dave but he did not want to be touched. He cried every time we tried. I think the vaccines hit the poor boy hard. Like up with the flu vaccine, I think he was sore too.

As the day went on, it seemed like he was feeling better – but boy was he a sad sack for most of the day.

By Sunday, he was right as rain again. But I’m sure he’s plotting some complicated revenge…

You will recall, that this spring, I bought a little raised bed with a greenhouse cover in the hopes of being more successful with lettuce and spinach. Late spring here can get quite hot, so sowing direct outside without a little cover doesn’t generally give it much time to grow before it gets too hot and the plants bolt.

It was somewhat successful – I got a couple small heads of lettuce (enough for a couple personal salads), and some nice baby lettuce to throw in meals. But it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped.

Anyway, months ago, I’d pulled out what spinach remained. The lettuce was already long gone. So imagine my surprise, when around Halloween – noticed a little head of lettuce growing – and the greenhouse top wasn’t even on. It must have been from a seed that didn’t germinate. I didn’t think much of it. Most of the garden was already shutting down. Then we got all that snow. And plenty of frost.

So imagine my surprise, when I was out filling up Squirrelington’s on the weekend and saw this…

Isn’t that just the happiest little bunch of lettuce? How it survived I have no idea… but I’m going to put the green house lid on and see if I can get it to a decent size.

And it has me thinking… maybe I can sow my lettuce and spinach even earlier than I thought! Definitely something to try next year.

While we’ve been sewing, we’ve been pairing up our postage stamp pairs as leader/enders.

And we’ve managed to fill this little basket with four patches.

I’d say we’re about halfway though the pairs we have together. So we’ve still got a lot more sewing to go!

This is entirely too many cats on one desk! How am I supposed to do my day job?!?

Sunday was cold again – with a little bit of snow, though just flurries this time. So it was a good day to spend at the machine.

I banged out another 13 batik log cabins, bringing my total to 25. And I though that would be a good amount. It would make the quilt 60 x 60. But that was until I laid them out….

I do not love that there are half patterns on the side and top. I feel like I need to make 11 more blocks to finish them out. The only problem… I don’t have enough strips left to make that many.

I do have a good collection of batik fabrics… but I’m not sure enough are pastels. But that’s a problem for another day.

Saturday saw me doing a pile of chores I’d been putting off. By the time they were finished – there wasn’t really enough time before dinner to sit down and sew. So I decided to pull out another long-neglected project.

Remember this little lady? Well… she got an hour or so more attention…

Still a long way to go… but bit by bit I get closer to a finish.