New quilt

In December I found a strange fabric on Walmart's bargain shelves. It had blowfishes with human dentures, lips & eyes, so I hosted a challenge on one of my online groups, Fiber Pirates. I provided a fat 1/4 of the fish fabric & 1 other fabric & the participants had until January 31 to use some or all of both fabrics in the project of their choosing. Here's mine. I've named it " The Schoolmarm" I had 2 other ideas & may play with them at a later date.

Minnie Pearl & Maxie Jesus

Junior, AKA Minnie Pearl, is becoming very self confident. Of course it helps that Jesus wants to mother her.

Ashley & Junior

Brought to you today by the letter "D" (or is that a "b"?

















Junior is much fluffier, but at approx 3 months, she looks the same size as Ashley at 6 months. The little white dot on Junior's neck has earned her the nickname of Minnie Pearl.

quilts

I just realized that all my blogging lately has been kitty stuff. One might think that I'm obsessed only with my kitties-not quite true. This is a lap quilt that I made as a part of my quilt guilds donations to a local nursing home. Charlie liked it so much that he requested a larger quilt in the same colors & pattern, but made only with mill rags (test samples from a finishing mill-in this case, solid color chintzes.) I've started Charlie's quilt, but I really need to stop procrastinating & finish a comissioned quilt first.

Petey teaches the kittens

I made a faux spider for the kitties. Petey demonstrated what it's for & Ashley tried to grab it too. Junior just watched it. I took Junior for her shots today, she gained almost 12 ounces in 10 days. I think that she will outgrow Ashley very soon.

Portrait of Jesus

As you can see, the cross on his chest that helped give him his name has stretched with his weight gain & is no longer as distinct as it used to be. He weighs 19+ pounds & doesn't appear to be losing any weight despite the diet cat food & the active games that the kittens get him into.

Wild vicious feral kitten

Yeah, right, so evil!. Junior loves Charlie. She thinks that he's her own private jungle gym. She'll cuddle with me, but only as a second choice. She's enjoying playing with Ashley. Right now, Ashley weighs more & has much longer legs, but with an estimated 1-2 months difference in their ages, we're betting that Junior will outgrow Ashley very soon. For those who are interested in quilts, that's charlie's favorite & the first real quilt that I ever made.







Look at those short little legs & that round little baby face.

caught

Bill Bailey is at the vet's waiting for a spay & Junior (her female look-a-like kitten) is living in our bathroom & being treated for an upper respiratory infection with gooky eyes. 3 more kittens to catch & tame.

update on wild kitties

They don't like me to be outside with them. I'm only allowed to sit at the far end of the porch so these pictures were taken through the storm door. A steady diet of kitten chow seems to be making very healthy kitties. I've set a Havaheart trap baited with tuna to try to catch Bill Bailey for spaying. 12 hours & I haven't caught her yet.

My kitties are NOT spoiled... (well maybe a little)

At left, Petey & Ashley playing "Whack-a-mole" with a custom designed Hoover box.



Feeling a need to pamper my indoor kitties a bit, I sat down a few nights ago with my leather/fur scrap bag & made a few kitty toys Clockwise from center top: gray fox leg fur with buckskin tail, white snakeskin with suede tail, blue fox with snakeskin tail, ittybitty white buckskin with suede tail, muskrat(?) with green snakeskin belly & suede tail & white buckskin with white snakeskin belly & tail & a blue fox mohawk. All but the gray fox have noisemakers inside- pill bottles or small tins with beads inside or jingle bells. Ashley prefers the furry ones.