It's okay, Sunshine. You're likely to have a very unique week ahead, and I pray you have an easy transition to retiring after many, many years in the medical professional arena. Sending prayers and thoughts of strength and happy celebration your way.
It's okay, Sunshine. You're likely to have a very unique week ahead, and I pray you have an easy transition to retiring after many, many years in the medical professional arena. Sending prayers and thoughts of strength and happy celebration your way.
Just do things as they come and no worries about anything here, because it's all good.
) I ran across the cutest square sash treatment that involved sewing on a 45-degree angled frame that could be fun to do since there are now 20 lights and 20 darks separated into two piles on the cutting table. Think the picture was saved, and it has NOTHIN' to do with red white and blue, it's just an idea for setting squares in a different way, and could add just enough intrigue to keep a waning attention span at alert (that quilt done this morning being a perfect example!) 
That's what gets me, too, Mr. H. Although the real dimensionalists are quilters who do something called "baby blocks." Some have carried the dimension angle to an extreme. 60-degree angles are not my forte, though. They're slow, painstaking, easy to mess up due to the odd bias that 60- and 120-degree stitching can be, made yet more difficult by warp and weft being most uncooperative. It's smarter to cut 1/3" seam allowances or 3/8" since few rulers have a marker for 1/3". That way, a wider foot can be used and there is slightly better control on angles with a wide base to work with, although not much, but even a slight improvement is better than nothing.
Jinny Beyer masters those blocks, however, since she stitches as quickly by hand as average sewing machine people stitch on the machine. She doesn't waste time, and she's the best there is out there on account of her affinity for mathematics, of which her wonderful books approach plane geometry in a most intriguing way including simply folding paper to get a correct angle. She's a whiz in geometric shapes and shading. For years, her quilts dominated the best of show category nationally and internationally, then she began designing her own fabric lines to achieve the correct shading and color by establishing a long-running "Jinny Beyer Basics" with RJR Fabrics, a Los Angeles, California company. Her fabrics are internationally famous and most precious once they are no longer in print.
Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. H. My little quilts don't hold a candle to your friend who is an artist in every good way there is. She gets out there, breaks rules having fun at it and forges a path for others to follow if they can keep up.
Mix a small amount of rosemary in a teaspoon of lemon. Daub the solution on the object cat needs to avoid.
Mix a small amount of rosemary in a teaspoon of lemon. Daub the solution on the object cat needs to avoid.
Ginger works 90% of the time but 10% of the time, the cat will like it.
Pepper is also effective. I'm thinking liquid pepper.
If none of the above works, girl you need a metal detector for the duration of that cat's life!!!!
Thanks for the story.
My cat now enjoys his own room, the conservatory. I told my husband if he doesn't keep two doors between me and the cat closed at all times, the potty machine, I mean, cat, would wind up at the shelter with a "barn cat" note stapled to his ear.
<giggle>
Sunshine, I sure hope you find your scissors. Wonder where the cat is secreting away the loot
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The cat has it figured it out: negative attention is better than nothing. There doesn't seem to be a smiley that laughs and cries at the same time. *sigh*Mix a small amount of rosemary in a teaspoon of lemon. Daub the solution on the object cat needs to avoid.
Ginger works 90% of the time but 10% of the time, the cat will like it.
Pepper is also effective. I'm thinking liquid pepper.
If none of the above works, girl you need a metal detector for the duration of that cat's life!!!!
Thanks for the story.
My cat now enjoys his own room, the conservatory. I told my husband if he doesn't keep two doors between me and the cat closed at all times, the potty machine, I mean, cat, would wind up at the shelter with a "barn cat" note stapled to his ear.
<giggle>
I have rosemary in my herb garden. Sometimes I feel like killing that cat!
