UGH!

I'm sorry it's yucky weather there for you, we have a similar forecast here in north central Florida today. And I have class, and work, and, and, and...*sigh* Now I'm feeling sorry for myself... that wasn't supposed to happen! ;-) {{{{{{{{{{{{{Kate}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

What a lovely furbaby - looking after your quilt for you while you work.

Thank you. I feel a lot better! :)

Sending you cyber-wellies and a BIG golf umberella!

He's very sweet natured, and mugs for cuddles! He went out in the rain this morning, and came in all wet, demanding to be scrubbed dry with a towel! But he hates his feet being dried... I think he's got tickly toes! ;)

Now that would be impossible to walk away from - what a beautiful kitty and quilt. Nope. Not me. The world would just have to wait. Priorities, you know. Polly

Kate, what a BEAUTIFUL quilt and what a GORGEOUS cat...who obviously knows what a quilt is for LOL!!

What a neat idea. I have a bedside table but this is still a nifty thing to have the remote and the eyeglasses (very important to be able to find!) nearby.

Hope you're feeling better soon, Kate.=20

-Irene

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--Mae West=20

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I know... Unfortunately I don't have a quilt ready for binding yet! several tops awaiting sandwiching and quilting, and several pending in the ideas file, but nothing at that stage yet.

Thank you. That's my Electric Leftovers quilt, made from charm squares cut from leftovers from other projects. :)

And the cat is adoreable, but makes porridge look intelligent! I think his sister got all the brain cells while he went round twice for muscles! ;)

No room for a telly in our bedroom either... And I keep knocking stuff off the plant-stand size thing I have! But somewhere for the book, the specs, and the hot blanket control is my ambition!

Cleaner, at any rate! I got the living room floor cleared and hoovered, and mucked out the boot pile behind the front door and hoovered there and up the staiirs! James now has a pile of grown-out-of trainers and shoes to clean and bag up for either the Blue Peter apeal (if that's still going) or the charity shop! That'll keep him out of trouble on Saturday, when he isn't doing homework (sez she with an evil grin!).

I love the picture of the kitty - looks so very, very comfortable.

Ohhhhhhh Kate! I made that bed caddy and just love it! I have plenty of room on my bedside table for everything, the problem was........in the dark of night my cat wanted to see what I had been reading, if my glasses would fit him and several times woke up to the TV blaring since while he was exploring he walked over the buttons of the TV remote trying to find a program that would interest him. He also had a habit of tipping the clock over so it landed on the alarm button which kept it from going off....obviously cats understand the need for sleep better than humans do, bless his heart for his concern. The one morning I slide out of bed and put first foot down squarely on top of my glasses I decided something MUST be done. I made up a caddy that day.........right after getting back from LensCrafters and getting my glasses unsquashed and readjusted.

I'll bet I've made a dozen of these for gifts. I've used placemats for the fabric for some "quickie caddy projects" to donate for charity sales events. They are a hit. I also made one that has an extra long 'tail' so it will hang over the arm of my couch and the tail tucks under the cushion. Good place for remotes and such. I stitched some of that rubbery waffled stuff you use as shelf liners on the 'tuck the tail' part and it keeps it from slipping out as my often over loaded caddies seemed to have a habit of doing.

Val

Both Cornflake and that Quilt are just beautiful.

He was! He's usually very at home on a quilt covered people! :)

Here's his little sister, doing a severe stress test on a basted and partly quilted quilt:

What a brilliant idea! I shall steel that, if I may! My bed has a varnished wooden base... No, it *IS* a varnished wooden base! Imagine four HUGE pine planks, neatly finished and arranged like a naughts & crosses board, with narrow slats/planks screwed down across the top to form the matress base... Then the matress is on top! The matress supporting planks are about 3" wide and 2" apart, and very slippery, as, when he made the bed, my very thorough papa varnished it all carefully with seven coats of marine varnish, all rubbed down to a smooth as teflon finish between coats! All the planks were finished separately, and the whole thing is held together with about a ton of countersunk brass screws!

I have a roll of non-slip webbing stuff that I use for mats for damping the vibration and noise of sewing machines, and to stop them sliding about on my textured work benches, and a bit of that will do nicely! :)

Thank you. The temptation to snuggle up with him and it and a nice book was almost overwhelming, but I resisted! And this evening's potential customer seemed impressed! Cornflake and Sugar Puff assisted there, too, by charming the cat-adoring mum of the bride! :)

It's good to have customer relations specialists on staff ;)

Val

They're both pretty! We don't have anything but grey plain and grey striped, black, black & white among our cat population now. I love that marmalade color.

Isn't it just! That's one wedding more or less in the bag: bride's a yes, there *may* be four bridesmaids, and the mum wants to think about it... She's a little round person, and difficult to buy for, so may well say yes to the oportunity.

Meanwhile, I AM going to quilt next week - a little every day, even if I do have some other sewing and stuff to do. And today I'm going to finish off clearing the decks in the sewing room and do that tidy. :)

What an exquisite photo. They are both so photogenic. The quilt colours you choose are clearly intended to complement their fur colours to the 'max' >g

I am so happy to see a QI stressed like that, it makes me feel really good. :>)