Grand Illusion - Bonnie Hunter's Mystery Quilt 2014
02-09-2015, 01:47 PM
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- the square in a square adds a focus to the center of the block - very striking!Your backing if fun and whimsical like the front - great colours!
02-09-2015, 04:10 PM
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quiltsRFun, your block is beautiful, and I love your backing fabric!
Julie, I think the owl fabric would be great.
I'm feeling quite discouraged, because I am losing my double diamond points when sewing my blocks together. I foolishly trimmed them for length without realizing I was trimming away my quarter inch seam.
Julie, I think the owl fabric would be great.
I'm feeling quite discouraged, because I am losing my double diamond points when sewing my blocks together. I foolishly trimmed them for length without realizing I was trimming away my quarter inch seam.
02-09-2015, 05:01 PM
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If it's consistent you could call it a design choice. That's the way you intended it. Right?
02-09-2015, 05:18 PM
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02-09-2015, 07:58 PM
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They are miniature pinschers or minpins. They are rescues I found online at a shelter north of Houston (I live south of Houston). They are an elderly pair that had always lived together and were left at a kill shelter for whatever reason. The staff had kept them for 2 months but their time was running out. I thought who else would want them and drove an hour to get them. One of my 20+ yo sons went with me for the ride...a friend had borrowed my dog crate and I thought he could hold them on the way home. When we got there a sign said any animal dropped off that day would be euthanized. So sad. The shelter was FULL and they were frantically trying to give cats away, too. My son decided then he wanted a cat. I'm thinking no way, but finally agreed thinking the ride home would be very interesting to say the least, but it was amazing - the two dogs slept on the back seat and the cat sat on my son's lap purring...not a bark, growl, or meow all the way home.
Max is the black male and is rather large. Xena is smaller and older, I think. I will have them three years this summer. :-)
Edited to add: The cat is the sweetest, best cat ever, and lives happily with my son and his two dogs.
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02-09-2015, 08:10 PM
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Julie, I personally prefer the owls - I tend to light a lighter backing and think it's very cute, BUT I went back and took another look at the skulls and they did make me smile. :-)
02-09-2015, 09:55 PM
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Laura, I took our cat to school for show and tell when my DD was in grade school. The ride was on 1/2 mile and the cat peed on her on the way. We had to drive back home to give her a bath and fresh clothes.
02-10-2015, 12:58 AM
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sewplease, how wonderful for you fur-babies that you cared enough to go to that trouble to rescue them but I expect you feel now that it was all worth while as rescued fur-babies seem to know and reward you with such love and companionship, don't ask me how I know I smiled at the tale of the journey home as my much loved departed Muffin did exactly the same, they do find being in kennels so very stressful. May you have some more wonderful years together.
I smiled at the tale of the journey home as my much loved departed Muffin did exactly the same, they do find being in kennels so very stressful. May you have some more wonderful years together.
02-10-2015, 07:15 AM
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Ready for a story? :-)
They are miniature pinschers or minpins. They are rescues I found online at a shelter north of Houston (I live south of Houston). They are an elderly pair that had always lived together and were left at a kill shelter for whatever reason. The staff had kept them for 2 months but their time was running out. I thought who else would want them and drove an hour to get them. One of my 20+ yo sons went with me for the ride...a friend had borrowed my dog crate and I thought he could hold them on the way home. When we got there a sign said any animal dropped off that day would be euthanized. So sad. The shelter was FULL and they were frantically trying to give cats away, too. My son decided then he wanted a cat. I'm thinking no way, but finally agreed thinking the ride home would be very interesting to say the least, but it was amazing - the two dogs slept on the back seat and the cat sat on my son's lap purring...not a bark, growl, or meow all the way home.
Max is the black male and is rather large. Xena is smaller and older, I think. I will have them three years this summer. :-)
Edited to add: The cat is the sweetest, best cat ever, and lives happily with my son and his two dogs.
They are miniature pinschers or minpins. They are rescues I found online at a shelter north of Houston (I live south of Houston). They are an elderly pair that had always lived together and were left at a kill shelter for whatever reason. The staff had kept them for 2 months but their time was running out. I thought who else would want them and drove an hour to get them. One of my 20+ yo sons went with me for the ride...a friend had borrowed my dog crate and I thought he could hold them on the way home. When we got there a sign said any animal dropped off that day would be euthanized. So sad. The shelter was FULL and they were frantically trying to give cats away, too. My son decided then he wanted a cat. I'm thinking no way, but finally agreed thinking the ride home would be very interesting to say the least, but it was amazing - the two dogs slept on the back seat and the cat sat on my son's lap purring...not a bark, growl, or meow all the way home.
Max is the black male and is rather large. Xena is smaller and older, I think. I will have them three years this summer. :-)
Edited to add: The cat is the sweetest, best cat ever, and lives happily with my son and his two dogs.
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