We had been requested to foster them because they started fighting due to the stress of being in the shelter. When we brought them home they continued to spat. However, every single day they calmed down a bit more and they'd curl up next to each other to nap. Clearly they liked each other. Within a few days Moses stopped ninja-jumping. Brownie stopped chattering his teeth so loudly and even let himself be picked up.
Progress!
Meet Moses and Brownie.
They're certainly cute. However... the reason I was asked to take them was that shelter life was stressing them out. Moses and Brownie were chasing and spatting. We had a calm ride home and the two boys settled right in, explored the cage, then took a nap.
That was the quiet before the storm.
The in-your-face chattering and ninja leap attacks started after dinner. My first impression is that Moses is getting a little too full of himself. He was right in Brownie's face. Brownie doesn't look eager to engage, but is not backing down to this pipsqueak punk.
The shelter may have triggered the stress fighting, but these two are acting like teenagers. Ugh. Teenage boys - I think that's worse.
I have been quilting away. I cannot believe how correctly setting my
bobbin tension has solved ALL my quilting issues (well, except for user
error...). Even
stitches. No weird looped or breaking threads. The bobbin doesn't rattle so much. I only need to stop
stitching when I've finished the area I'm quilting, I've run out of bobbin
thread, or I've messed up the pattern.
It's bliss.
It also means I'm nearly done quilting the Lone Star quilt. Red should be wrapped up today; only the white and pink on the edge is left.
All sorts of projects in the works. Two quilts pinned and ready to quilt. I just need to figure out what pattern I want to do.
Spent way too much time surfing Pinterest for scrappy, crumb and string ideas. Ooh, what do I want to do next??
I also got around to cutting the fabric I originally bought for the kaleidoscope blocks. Look how they turned out! (Design floor in use because I used all the batting that was on my design wall. Need to replace that soon!)
The pattern shows the guinea pig in colorful prints but I wanted more realistic colors. I pulled a bunch of browns, blacks, white, greys and tans from my stash and Rob and I picked the ones we liked best. I've been hording that brown fabric for ages - I loved it but never quite found the right project for it. The black fabric and the funky white fabric were both excellent finds at Swanson's (the amazing "no-kill shelter for your fabric stash"). I didn't have any ¾-inch buttons for the eyes, but a trip back to Swanson's yielded a pair of shiny black shank buttons. How perfect are those?!? What a score.
I dug through my stash, brought out some orphaned blocks before pulling out several sets of crumb blocks.
I started sandwiching it before I noticed a few jagged edges along the black and red Vs I had intended to address (the other missed points are more forgiving). The frustrating thing is two of them had already been ripped and restitched. Thankfully third time was the charm (and kept to my two-rip-and-restitch rule). This quilt is officially sandwiched and in need of quilting inspiration.
