A couple of thing to report and some help needed

 I’ve made some more progress on the king size Halloween quilt. I have several rows sewn together and have picked out the 2 border fabrics. I also ordered backing fabric….12 yards of it!

I gave my girlfriend the gnome. Can you guess what it is?

I have another gift to reveal, but I can’t until it is received.

So here’s what I need help with….I decided to participate in a word challenge for the local art museum. We have to make an art piece based on that word. I’m going to make a small fiber piece that I will frame. So I think it’s only going to be 8 inches by 10 inches if I mat it or 11 by 14 if I don’t. I just want to buy a standard inexpensive frame.

So what word did I get? Well actually 3 of us got this word. And the word is WONDER.

So what to do for WONDER?

My initial reaction was space and astronomy. I have several AI images I can use as inspiration.

The other concept I thought about was to wonder what’s behind something like a door.

The last concept I thought about was to wonder what a cat was looking at as it looks out of a window. Or maybe it’s wondering when you’re coming home.

Are any of these ideas any good? Do you have any suggestions? Are there any poems or songs about wonder that would be useful? My husband was absolutely no help at all.

Thanks for reading. 

Chris

First post of 2025

I am getting things done even though I have not blogging about it. 

I made something I can’t post here until the person receives it. I have my blocks laid out for the king sized cat Halloween quilt. I had to put them on my floor and scrunch them together for them to fit on the floor. There’s sashing between the blocks and between the rows as well as borders to be added. So it will be a lot larger. I did not really pay attention to the placement of the pieced blocks. I did pay attention to the cat blocks, however.

Thanks for reading.

Chris

Quincy the cat is done!

 I finished up our daughter’s black cat ornament this morning. He even has the chopped off ear since he was a stray. Here are some photos of the ornament. I think that makes 51 ornaments that I’ve made since I started this tradition back in 1989.

Thanks for reading. Now onto the secret ornament.

Did you think I dropped off the face of the Earth?

 I’ve been busy stressing over the ornaments that I’ve been working on for our daughter. I’m making the 3 witches from the movie Hocus Pocus. This movie was filmed in Salem, Massachusetts where they live.

The heads were especially stressful. Here’s my head graveyard of failed heads. Some of the failed heads were too small. I did use them to test out hair making. So they did serve a purpose. The hair on 2 of them was wool felted. The third one is yarn.  I had to paint dye the yarn yellow since all I had was white. 

Here’s the finished witches. This project was a lot harder than I thought it would be. They are about 7 inches tall. The faces are about an inch and was challenging to draw. At any rate they are done.

I’m going to make an ornament of their black cat that they adopted this year. Here’s the pattern.

I also made an ornament to go into a gift bag for a senior citizen in a local care home. Here’s that ornament.

Thanks for reading.

Chris