In the pink

...and here is the chosen pink. Click to see a larger version.




Now I just have to sew it together and figure out the border!

Pajamas

I whipped up a pair of flannel pajama bottoms the other day. The pattern couldn't be easier, just four pieces of fabric and a drawstring, and would be a perfect first sewing project for a beginner.

I used a sweet baby elephant fabric. If you can't go whimsical with your PJs, when can you?

Kitty noses

Finny always made the most hilarious, horrified faces when he smelled something he thought was too strong. Be it something pungent like garlic, or something bracing like citrus or mint, anything with a strong scent earned his trademark grimace.

Onions were probably his least favorite of all. So when we went out to look at kitties (back when we got Echo and Eisa) and I had oniony hands, I worried the sulfuric scent would drive all the cats away.

Preoccupied with this concern, it was the first thing I mentioned when we arrived. The woman just looked at me. "My cats don't mind," she said - and she was right, nobody in the place could have cared less.

I never did find a fragrance that he liked. He himself usually just smelled like warm fur (very different than Echo, who smells like fresh bread when she is healthy).

Even today, now that Echo and Eisa are very familiar with the way we smell, a new fragrance barely warrants more than a polite sniff. I haven't figured out Truffle's nose prefs yet.

Edited in August to add:

Truffle's ratings of a few perfume oils:

1) jasmine (kept sniffing)
2) frankincense (sniffed a few times)
3) bergamot (sniffed, looked skeptical)
4) lavender (sniffed, pulled back)
5) sweet orange (sniffed, cried out, ran away)

Double pink

Here are two other backgrounds I auditioned for the ice cream quilt. Trying them helped me get a better sense of what the quilt wants.

This is a small plaid. The minimal amount of contrast between the background squares and the backgrounds of the ice cream blocks ends up making the quilt feel a little washed out. It is lacking some visual sparkle.




This next option is better but still not ideal. If you compare this fabric with the hand dye (there's a strip showing on the left in the photo) you can see that the colors are very similar; this does seem to be the general shade and saturation that the quilt wants. But I can't help but feel that if I'm going to repeat 6" chunks of fabric across a quilt, the print really ought to be a little more compelling than a pink cowhide pattern...



Back to the fabric store!

You scream, I scream...

I am currently working on an ice cream cone quilt. I have the individual cone blocks constructed, and am now playing with possible fabrics for the alternating squares. As you can see below, pink seems to work nicely, but I'm not sure whether the particular fabric is right. (I like the shade of pink with the other fabrics, just am not sold on the texture for this quilt.)

I guess I'll just have to drag myself ;) to the fabric store!




(Click to view a larger version)