Hanging Hearts

I have loads of things to share today!  But first, I'll start with an update on my Crazy Quilt Cat Pillow.  This isn't quite finished yet.  It still needs a few more do-dads:

I expect to finish it up either tonight or tomorrow.

In other news, I have some new pictures of baby Cotton:

I bought him a collar yesterday but Scott isn't thrilled with it.  It's pink!

And it has cupcakes on it!  Scott told me that boy kitties don't wear pink collars.  MEN!  I told him that Cotton couldn't care less what color his collar was.  I liked it because it was pink and had the cupcakes on it and it looks good with his white fur!

Wrigley's collar is the same but is yellow with little bumblebees on it.  I tried to get some new pictures of baby Wrigley but he couldn't sit still.  He's getting big!  I'll get some more as soon as I can.  Lucy wouldn't sit still either.  She's doing better but she still isn't happy.  At least Wrigley plays with Cotton and isn't trying to get Lucy to play anymore.

Finally for today, I have some pretty Cottage style Hanging Hearts that mom made:

Well that's my news for today.  I'm taking my little Cotton ball to the vet tomorrow for a little check up and to get his paperwork in order.  He's so cute and sweet!  And boy, can he run through the house!

A Little Cotton Ball

I'll share an update with you tomorrow of my Crazy Quilt Cat Pillow.  I've been working on it but have another little distraction going on!

I've mentioned several times that I've been wanting to adopt a little white kitten.  Yesterday, I looked at Animal House Shelter's website (that's where we adopted Wrigley) and lo and behold, they had just brought a little white kitten to the shelter from the foster home.

Now I had liked the name Cupid for a little white kitten but Scott was not at all thrilled with that name.  We had been talking about it for the last few weeks and came up with the name Cotton.  Ironically, when the shelter posted his photo, the description read, "sweet as Cotton Candy and soft as a Cotton Ball"!

Scott and I were kind of blown away by that and immediately hopped in our truck and drove to Huntley.

So we adopted this beautiful little 3 month old baby yesterday:

This is the shelters photo.  I haven't gotten any really good pictures of him yet because he's always in motion!  But here a two that will give you an idea of how little he is:

He looks more like he's 8 weeks old rather than 3 months.  But he's sweet and he's beautiful!

Lucy was not doing well in accepting Wrigley.  She was pounding him every chance she got.  And she was snapping at me which she has never done in the 14 years she's been with me.  Scott and I thought that if Wrigley had another baby to play with, that Lucy would get a break from his high energy level!

There's some growling and hissing going on between Cotton and Wrigley but I don't think it will last long.  They're only 2 months apart in age.

I'll try to get better photos to share but for now, we a new little baby for Wrigley to play with.  For right now, he's curled up on the computer tower, sound asleep!

Crazy Quilt Cat Pillow

I'm in the process of finishing up a few projects but I also started a new project.  I'm always in various stages of doing things.  It's just how I work!  Anyway, here is my Crazy Quilt Cat Pillow.  I just started on this yesterday:

And here's a closeup of the seam treatment across the bottom left:

The flowers are a woven rose worked with 1 strand of Watercolours by The Caron Collection.  Then I added french knots around the outside in 7MM silk ribbon that I hand dyed.  I'm sure I'll be adding beads to this but I usually do all my stitching first.  I just thought this was kind of cool looking and thought you'd enjoy seeing it too.  Click on the photo to see a larger image!

Crazy Quilt Color and Composition Classes Lesson 7

Lesson 7 of my Crazy Quilting Color and Composition Class is now available!

 

Lesson 7 - Proud As A Peacock

Lesson 7 covers:

• Transferring a design
• Mastering the Feather Stitch
• Long and Short Stitch
• Couching
• Peacock Tail in Fancy Yarn

Lesson 7 is now available at Magcloud!

Glittered Reindeer Ornaments

Ya'll know mom and I love our glitter!  Mom started on a few Christmas ornaments.  Yes, I know it seams early but we have to work a few months in advance so here are mom's Glittered Reindeer Ornaments:

Tomorrow, I expect to have a few little ornaments that I made along with a cat doll that I started stitching on yesterday and am almost finished with.