Paintbox Pizzazz Panache

Paintbox Pizzazz is officially ready for quilting. Who knows when that will happen? It won't be any time soon. Nevertheless, it feels good to have it this far. This was one of two projects I started for the 2019 Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

You can't say it isn't bright enough. Here's a close-up of the two borders. I used a narrow black stop border before adding the paintbox fabric. I love that paintbox fabric. I used almost all of the one yard I purchased. Kind of wish there was more.

I laid the binding fabric along the edge so you can see how that will look. You can see it at the bottom of the image below.

Smitty thought this looked like a Twister game board, and decided to play the game himself. He's often in competition with his tail, and his tail is the one responsible for this mess.

It's one of the drawbacks of being a cat with a long tail. Sadie isn't troubled by this. (Old picture. Kitties are confined to the indoors now.)

Speaking of kitties, I reached this point in my hand quilting yesterday. The cat was already quilted. I was just quilting in the border. But it's a cat, and so I had to take a picture. Possibly there is a cure for this cat obsession of mine, and I hope I never catch it. The cure, that is.

I was just getting ready to move my hoop, and you can see that I'm getting close to the corner and the end of my obligation for this go-round. It hasn't been too bad working on this since giving it a good long time out. I'm even ending up doing a little more than I promised when I picked it up again.

There are some blocks near the corner that are not yet quilted, and so I'll work on whatever fits in the hoop until I reach the corner. After that, I'll put it aside again for a while.

The rain we expected yesterday never really materialized beyond spitting a few times. That means I need to get outside and do some work in the garden today, and I need to do some watering. There is one hated housekeeping chore on this morning's calendar, and I need to make up a grocery list. It's kind of a busy day even without any sewing. Still, I'm hoping to make it into the sewing room at some point. If I get there, I'm going to make masks for Erik and Mae using these fabrics. I'm afraid football season is going to be a bust this year, but I imagine they'll use these masks anyway. One doesn't need to be at a football game to show one's school colors.

Those shouldn't take long, and then I'll be starting a new kitty pawtrait. This wasn't on my list, but Matthew has a friend named Gina who has a cat named Luna. Isn't she a pretty girl? She looks a little like Smitty.

What I know about Luna is that she is 17 years old and nearing the end of her life. Gina is a nurse and gives Luna fluids a couple of times per day because of renal failure. I have a little room on my sewing dance card, and so I'll fit in Luna's pawtrait before getting back to my white board list of projects. Yesterday I traced her picture onto a transparency (the first step), but I'm not happy with what I did. I'm going to start again. It's easy to get bogged down in the details of color, and I need to simplify my plan a little bit. I believe I have a perfect fabric for her pretty eyes.

So here I go. Hand stitching will get the day off to a good start.