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Things that keep me from quilting #3

July 5, 2006

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Imagine this: Shadow playing with a CapriSun drink pack. Now imagine him trying to eat it, and poking holes in it with his teeth! Then imagine him thinking the juice was not so tasty when it began spewing out of the holes onto the floor, and moving on to the 32 oz. Tetra-pak container of [...]

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: Back to normal, I think

July 2, 2006

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I think we may be getting back to normal with the kitty boys around here finally. Now that I’ve quit treating Patches for the feline acne, it’s going away. I think it was stress related. I suspect that his immune system being low was what started the whole thing, and then we just kept fighting [...]

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UFO Report! One down, 24 to go…

June 30, 2006

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Here’s a pic of the little quilt I finished up this morning: I appliquéd the cat after the quilt was basted together with the batting and backing, just as an experiment. I basted the layers with water soluble thread, then appliquéd the prepared pieces onto the quilt through all three layers, free-motion quilting them at [...]

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Taking a break

June 26, 2006

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Shadow and I needed a break today: I had a headache all day, and he was just taking advantage of the prone body, I’m sure!

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: No cutting today

June 15, 2006

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I guess it’s a good thing I hadn’t planned to rotary cut anything today! He’s so cute when he’s sleeping…

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: On the mend

June 4, 2006

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I haven’t written much about the kitties in awhile, maybe because I just didn’t want to think about the whole thing too much, or maybe I was already thinking about it too much and didn’t want to write about it too. We’re still battling sickness, but I think we’re getting closer to to healthy every [...]

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Quilting with Patches and Shadow: Not quilting, just nursing!

March 29, 2006

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Well, we’ve had a sick kitty here. Patches has been really, really ill since Sunday evening, not eating or drinking, and he was lethargic and has sores in his mouth. Bad, bad news. The blood test results are still inconclusive, but we think he may have FIP, which is really not good. Today though, after [...]

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