Have Batting, Will Sandwich

It was a day of frenzied activity yesterday. The batting arrived late Tuesday afternoon, and so I hurried to finish up the last of the quilt sandwiches. The sawhorse tables have been taking up two slots in the garage, and so I wanted to get finished and put them away, saving our cars from the hot summer sun. The quilt back for the Snow Globes quilt was ready to receive the rest of itself. Thank goodness it's paired up with its top now and we can all get on with our lives.

When I sandwich a pile of quilts like this, I always start with the largest and move to the smaller ones...hardest to easiest. Next up was Chicken Buffet. It's still a large quilt, but smaller than Quiltemala or Snow Globes.

It made the Pansy Mosaic seem so simple. It only required one plywood table for sandwiching.

Those were all the quilts I intended to sandwich, but as long as those tables were set up, I sandwiched the Zebra quilt too.

In no particular order, here's the status of the Quilts-to-be-quilted pile. I keep quilting, but the pile remains as deep as ever.

Also yesterday, I finished stitching October's Heart.

I'll be starting on November this morning.

There was so much to do yesterday, it wasn't even funny. I made food for last night's dinner, and then went on to make dinner for two nights at the beach and two lunches as well. And then, it was time to get out and water the flower pots. I noticed a sleepy Sadie coming from her little house inside the catio. The sun beats down on the catio in the afternoon, and so Sadie likes to spend her time in this little house.

And, busy or no, the cat grass is a ritual requirement these days. Sadie wants whatever Smitty is having, even though she isn't the grass-eating machine that he is.

He's been surprisingly tolerant of this intrusion, but he still draws a hard red line in the sand where our upstairs bedroom is concerned. He's given up territory everywhere else in the house, but the bedroom is off limits.

So you might guess I'm signing off for a day or two. We're heading over to the Oregon coast to see the Neskowin Ghost Forest. It's something I've wanted to see for years...maybe even a full decade. It can only be seen at a super low tide, and that occurs August 1st and 2nd. It's our only reason for going over, but I'm sure we'll find some other things to do while we're there. Pictures to follow. The kitties aren't going with us, and Matthew will be showing up before we arrive home. (I think he's spent more time in Portland than he has in Las Vegas since moving down there in May.)

Sew on, my friends. I'll be back in a few.