Casting Cats Part 3

Tails are almost done.  I realized after I put the tail pieces up on my design wall, that the purple kitty body needs to be redone!  Oops!

Casting cats Part 2

I have all my cat heads and bodies sewn together!! Now to attach the tails!

Tee shirt quilt 1

I was hired to make a tee shirt quilt.  She wanted a "puzzle" type quilt.  Which was a first for me (but totally doable!)

I cut out and interfaced all the shirts in one night (I love my heat press!).

Then I spent another few nights trimming the shirts.  I started with them all being the same size width, and I left some of them longer than others.

This is my first picture of just laying the blocks out to try to figure out how I was going to put them together.

Casting Cats mini quilt

I signed up to do a swap on instagram.  It's like a white elephant gift exchange.  You don't know who you are making for, because people get to vote on which mini quilt they want!  I did a informal poll on instagram, and most people wanted cats.

So I went with this pattern, casting cats by Cate Tallman-Evans, of blank designs.  I honestly don't know where I found the pattern, it was a free PDF download.  I have had it saved for quite a while!

I am not following the pattern with just three colors of cats, I decided to do pairs of two with contrasting fabric.

November 16th - craft fair

I am excited to be a part of this craft & vendor fair this year, I was a part of it last year also!

Bowl cozies

I was busy tonight! I finished 7 microwave cozies!

And I used a new fabric I haven’t used before (the Harry Potter ones at top)

Sewing with the cats

I have been sewing in my living room lately.  I put my featherweight on a TV tray.

 

One of my biggest struggles in my sewing room is the cats! They want to cuddle with me ALL the time.  Which I am NOT complaining about, I love cuddling with them.  But I cannot get work done while they are cuddling with me, they generally try to sit in front of the machine so I cannot sew!

Well they LOVE it when I sew in the living room, there is room for both of them on the love seat with me.

I was working on microwave cozies.  I have a few new patterns and some others I have ran out of.  They aren't 100% done, so I don't have pictures of them.

November 9th - Craft fair

I am SO excited to be a part of this craft fair this year, I found out about it last year!  And made sure I applied this year!

craft fair set up

My mother in law and I had a craft fair last weekend, and here is our set up (we had two spaces)

I feel like we're getting to the point where we can get it set up well, fairly easy.

And I had electricity, so I was able to work on a few things!! I finished 5 microwave cozies while I was there! (it's also a good conversation starter)