I Saved His Life......Only to Kill Him Again

Yesterday I spent time at Red Stick cutting out my fabrics.  Today, I will sew them together.

I really can't show you what I am going to work on, because it is for the Mystery Quilt  at River City.  But I can tell you that i cut a ton of 3 1/2 inch strips yesterday that I will sew together today!

LOL.

In other news..........I saved McGee's life but once again.  And I so wanted to beat him with blunt objects.  But I stayed my feelings and saved his life in the end.

He was upset about having to wait for his morning walk since Frank had left so early.  And he panicked.  In the form of tearing my book apart.  In the afternoon, I have no idea why he wanted to eat the mat under his water bowl, but he did.  But those pieces were small and not likely to twist his internals.  So I will just watch to make sure things come out properly.  Those emergency vet visits are darn expensive!

Then after I made him throw up the book parts, gave him some yogurt to coat his stomach and a bone to put something in there, he ate my favorite tote.  I won this from Stephanie (I think) a couple years ago when she had a contest to see how many string projects you could do.  I won for making a couple of charity quilts and donating it to the nursing home.

I had to make him throw up polka dots too.  You can see how much he ate, a considerable amount of each.  And he likes to do it in strips, notice.  I really don't need an Accu-Cut, I have McGee!

I won these fabulous blues at the Remember Me Guild meeting last night.  It will go into the pile for my indigo quilt.  I have big ideas for that.  The pig?  Oh, that is a pitcher from my grandmother.  She used it to pour milk and lemonade for us, although not at the same time.  My mother hated it, she refused to drink anything that came from a pig's mouth.  But I totally adored it.  It is a Smiley pig, and I had it appraised for $2500 about 10
years ago.  So you can imagine my concern when I was trying to take the picture and this happened.

I used my wonderful light box to trace some additional nudes on to the nude fabric.  I found that I need to work on finding a nice pencil or tracing apparatus.  My mechanical pencil was too light and the thinness of the lead affected the weave of the fabric.

So I need a better thing.  Something you won't see when it is cut out.  I thought to use a permanent marker that is ultra-thin, but it bled out into the fabric.

Any ideas??????

Pig, proclaimed

So the pig ended up to be just one lousy block, so I took a page from the Bumble Beans blog and grabbed some cool looking fabric and made a table runner that will go along with her other pig-ish stuff.

It really turned out cute.  I sure hope she likes it!

glen

Why are pigs so hard? (whine)

pig

I decided today that I would make a pig quilt TableRunner for my sister in law.  She has a pig.  Blossom is a Vietnamese Pot Bellied Pig.  I usually think of these things as small pigs but Blossom is larger than my Swissys, and they are pretty big dogs.

Blossom is older than 20 years.  I don't think I have a picture of her anywhere, but I guess she is cute...as pigs go.  She has a lot of wiry odd sticking out hairs.  And a huge nose she uses to root up the sofa cushions every day when Michelle leaves for work.  She learned to open the refrigerator a long long time ago, so they actually have a padlock on their fridge.  (It hasn't stopped anyone from getting fat, so it only works for real pigs.)

Last year I made Michelle a quilt from the Olivia the Pig collection in black and white and reds.  I loved the quilt.  I hope Michelle did too, since I have not heard from her about it at all.  She was not present when I handed the basket of presents to my brother, so I have no idea what she thought about it.

I thought I would just zip out 8 pig blocks this afternoon and then finish them up tomorrow.  Well, best laid plans of pigs and women.  I fought with the construction of the pig for some reason.  It was way harder than I thought it would be.  See my Bad Pig?  It looks like, I don't know what.  A blimp maybe?   The red pig turned out a bit better not worse.   I think I need to make the pigs skinnier in their body.  LOL.  That is funny, my pig needs a diet!  I finally did get it done, and had to cook supper then leave for a Toastmaster meeting.  So I really got nothing done all day!

But does it look like a pig?  Aughhhhhhh!

So then I decided not to do a whole big quilt, but to do a pig theme group of presents and the tablerunner.   I found a really adorable watering can that is shaped like a good sized pink pig.  And I found a red/white/blue piggy bank.  And a dish shaped like a cute little piggy.  I think this along with the table runner will be a pretty cute gift.  I guess once again, though, I won't know how it goes over since I never hear from them and never see Michelle.

She won't read this, they have not paid much attention to us here in Baton Rouge in a long long time.  So the surprise won't be spoiled.  I just get upset that my mom never sees them either.  That is the hurt in all this.

Sigh..........pig things.

glen