Halfway

Good morning, my friends. We're expecting plenty of rain over the next week or so...nearly two inches in the next two days. Yikes. It's good sewing weather, though, and I'm glad to be home for the day. I have an early doctor's appointment tomorrow to see what's going on with my left shoulder. I only mention it now because tomorrow's post will be late, and I should have some news about my shoulder by then. Honestly, I don't see how I'm going to avoid a surgery on this, but I'm hoping the doctor will have some other ideas.  

It was late in the day by the time I got to my quilting. Fortunately, Smitty was keeping an eye out for invading forces, and so I felt purrfectly safe.

With his purrtection, I was able to quilt another two vertical rows. That makes five down, and five to go. Here's the top half of the quilt.

Here's the bottom half.

Here's a little peek at the back.

Sadie was there to give her purrspective.

She doesn't like how I quilted this cat. Its ears and tail are too short.

That is purrpawsterous.

Everyone's a critic.

It was nearly time to start dinner by then, but I sat and finished off the eighth block for the Snowmen & Reindeer project while we watched the news.

Sadie helped me trim it to size.

Here are the eight blocks I have for this quilt so far.

On today's agenda, two more vertical rows of quilting, and I'll be taking the first stitches on the fourth block for Home is Where My Flock Is.

The quilting is taking most of my sewing time, but I'm still hoping to get January's Inverted Star block made. The pieces are cut. It's just a matter of sewing them together.

There's one housekeeping chore on today's list of to-do's. Hopefully, I can manage to fit it all into a single day.

So that's all the news that's fit to print. I have some comments about the actual news, but I'll keep that to myself for the time being. Just now I'll get started on my slow-stitching and enjoy the rainy day. Rainy day = Good sewing weather.