Maybe it's the summer holidays, which are turning out to be dismally wet, and therefore we are stuck in the house instead of doing the fun things I had envisioned. Ginger has his friend round most of the time, they take turns in going from our house to theirs (which is just across the street), but mostly ours. That involves a lot of mess, as boxes of toys are tipped out onto the floor, cushions from the sofas join the toys, the boys roll about and make those really loud shouty boy noises.
I have managed to bribe them with 20p if they tidy up though, and this appears to be working. Fortunately they are both too young to understand that 20p doesn't get you anywhere, Miss G would just look at me in mock horror if I tried to bribe her with 20p, and probably disappear off laughing hysterically.
But, really, could we have a less wet week next week? Please? It's getting beyond a joke now.
My best friend's Mum turns 70 this September, and had hinted that she wanted a quilt. I feel really rather honoured to be the one making it, I know you can quite easily go to any shop these days and buy something that 'looks' homemade for much less than it costs to actually make something. But Sascha asked me, and chose the fabrics to suit her Mum's house (lots of American Jane - my favourite). She also asked me to make something similar to the one I'd made before, so a simple nine patch it is....
I'm waiting on some wadding to arrive before I can quilt it. I bought it from somewhere other than I usually do, and it's taking a little longer than I had hoped. So much for buying it because it was a little cheaper, I'd actually prefer prompt posting to a 50p saving, to be quite honest!
And then, there's the cats. They are really trying my patience this week.
I had just got this quilt sandwich out to start quilting when the phone rang, so I went off to answer it, and NooNoo decided he'd have a little sleep.
When I tried to move him, he bit me. It was a proper big teeth into the hand bite as well, not just a warning nibble.
Maybe the wet weather is testing his patience too? He doesn't like to get wet. But taking his frustrations out on my quilt backing is just not acceptable....
BooBoo isn't much better. He thought it'd be great fun to sleep right next to my sewing machine. I tried to move him, but he just kept on climbing back up and flopping his fat body down.
*sigh*
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At times like this I am so glad my girls have never said 'mummy I want a cat'! Life is so much easier with a big heavy rottweiler too big and lazy to climb up onto the table.
Though she does sigh rather loudly and dissaprovingly whenever I get the sewing machine out. As if that will stop me!!!?
As for kids, thank heavens my two and their friends discovered a blackberry bush down the road, it has kept them occupied for days picking them!!!!!!!!!! In the rain too.....
My cats are exactly the same as yours - and the shedding! Don't start me on that one! Hope that the weather/ energy levels get better for you soon hon. Isn't this supposed to be the BBQ summer? xx
Tomorrow is a new day x
What is it with quilters and cats???
The quilt you are making if fab, obviously, but is that Neisha Crosland wallpaper I spy behind?? (Hope tomorrow isn't as manic - or as wet x)
Cute post. I just got some of that fabric in the last picture. I know how kitties are when they want to stay put! Determined. Sweet quilt. Of course your mum wants a quilt made from you. She'll love it.
When my Newman lays on my sewing table like that, I worry he will get his tail under the needle. Maybe if that actually happens, he would think twice before laying there again.
Surely the cat eating the quilt indicates it is a feline of exquisite taste obviously!
what is it about cats and fabric??? As soon as I lay even a single layer of fabric down somewhere, our cat knows it and wants to be on it or under it or tangled in it. I feel your pain Katy! For instance, yesterday, I put a fresh linen in front of my espresso machine and as soon as I walked out of the room, "guess who" (and no, it wasn't my husband) jumped up there to lay on it? Cats are incorrigible!!
Cats really are quilt lovers. I've contemplated making mine their own little quilts in the hope that they'd leave mine alone. :o)
I'm with you on the dreadful weather, would be great for a couple of weeks of that much promised and over hyped heat wave!
I know about the cat thing !!
They love to sit on anything new , especially lovely fresh fabric .
I go through those sticky lint removers like crazy.
Hope your summer gets sunnier & drier .
Oh god what is it with cats and quilts and sewing tables! I was almost going to start a flickr group called, "Cats on the sewing table" because it seems to be a regular enough phenomenon!
I was laying out squares on the carpet today to see if I had counted correctly and lo and behold Max (cat) suddenly materialises as if from no where thinking I am making him a special bed!
Hope your hand is ok?
LOL naughty puss, give your mummy a big kiss better.
You must not bite the hand that feeds you.
As for Boo bo, you sound just like our Thomas, "no I'm not moving" that what he says all the time lol
Oh cats, we just love them.
Hugs,
Catherine x
LOL! that is exactly what sausage does to my giant pile of felt. He also likes to sleep on the clean laundry pile so I can't iron it (but I don't mind that so much! ;)
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