So-Much-to-Tell-You Saturday

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Saturday mornings are the best, in my humble opinion.  On the other hand, I don't work, and so every morning is like Saturday morning.  Maybe I should just say mornings are the best.  This morning I have several things to tell you about.

First, if you're like me, you need about 900 more quilt patterns in your collection because, honestly, the thousands you already have are just not enough to last you until the day you die.  That's why I'm telling you about the new pinboard Quiltmaker put up with links to free patterns.  I read about this on Facebook.  I'm not a Pinterest person, but I know some of you love it.  I like it too, but if there's anything I need more than patterns, it's more social media outlets taking up more hours of my day.  (You know what I'm talking about, don't you?)

So here's the next thing:

Sock monkey gained a new pair of ears.  Thanks again to JLVerde at Just Something I Made for the tips she gave me about doing the ears.  For one thing, she told me to stitch the ears before cutting them out.  That made so much sense, but I wouldn't have thought to do it myself.

This being my first sock monkey, the hand stitching is a little more, shall we say, "rugged" than I wish it was.  On the other hand, it gives him that rugged Indiana Jones look.  

(Be still, my beating heart.)  You see the resemblance, don't you?  He's going to Baby Ezra, my friend Lisa's grandson.  I doubt Ezra will mind the stitching.

And, since this project was new to me, I'll be linking up to 

later in the month.  Click right here for the linky party.

Speaking of rugged and good-looking, look who's getting too big, too fast.  When he stretches out, he's about five feet from the tip of his front paws to the tip of his tail.

And he seems to have grown into his ears.  This is what he looked like the day I brought him home last July.

His first birthday is coming up in April.  He's the first cat I've ever owned that I actually knew his real birthday!  And, of course, there will be a party on my blog.  More later.

Next up:

This month's color is orange, and so my little ladies will be dressed up thusly:

And, this being Saturday, I'll be linking up to Scraphappy Saturday.

Yesterday I started on my March doll quilt for the Doll Quilt Swap.

The theme for this month's swap is "Animals".  Here's what I have so far.

You do see the animal, don't you?  Actually, I can't show you what I'm doing because I want to surprise my partner.  This month, I'm paired up with Lizzie the Swedish Scrapper.

Finally, it's time to set goals for March's 

For March, I want to finish up the Perfect Harmony wall-hanging I'm making for Matthew.  It's sandwiched and ready to go.  I'm going to quilt it fairly densely using lines to echo its undulating curves.  (Isn't "undulating" just the best word ever?)  Also, I want to use metallic threads to quilt in the guitar strings.  

Then when it's all quilted, I'm going to give it a bright green binding.  Looking forward to getting started on this one, but that probably won't happen until next week.  I need to work on the doll quilt for now, and then work on a couple of other "monthlies" before I get the machine set up for quilting.  It takes a bit to get it set up, so once it's ready to go, I don't want to stop until I'm finished.  I'll be linking up at the goal setting party going on right now.

So that's about it from the Three Cats Ranch.  What's on your agenda for the weekend?

Updated to say I'm linking up to: