Catalicious Quilt Stitch In Block 1

I finally finished it! This is the first block.. I'm a month behind as usual of course, of the Catalicious Quilt Stitch In from Red Brolly  I just LOVE Bronwyn's designs.

I'm making this for my daughter so instead of Brutus the cat I had to change it to gray and black in honour of her cat Rilo. This is a "baby picture" She's nowhere near as small as that anymore and she isn't full sized either. She's a Maine Coon Cat. Her mother was medium sized so hopefully she won't grow too big either. We don't know who the father was. The mother was a rescue cat and was pregnant when she came in to the facility.

I can't wait to get started on the next one. This time I did prewash the background fabric. I'm so used to not washing fabric cause I like that quilty look that I forget when I'm embroidering I need to or it shinks and gets all wrinkly when I wash out the lines. Oh well. The rest of the quilt will be quilty so why not the designs?

I've also put a new book up on my Book Picks Blog. I just finished reading Emilie Richards Lover's Knot and I can't wait for the next one to come in at the library. I've ordered it in and it's available at 2 other libraries in the system so should be here in a few days.

And, since I'm taking a Greek Mythology course I decided to put my assignments on my Shirleymac's Writing blog. It's so fascinating. I love myths. So far I've done 3 assignments and gotten 100% on all of them. Pretty good for an old lady *LOL*

Our nice weather is over. All the people who jumped the gun and put out flowers last week are out of luck. It's been almost down to freezing the last two nights. Poor tulips haven't bloomed yet and are drooping too cause they needed to be covered. The wind and rain last night was beyond amazing. I'm surprised we didn't lose power. Now it's sunny, which isn't supposed to last, so I'm off for a walk while I still have the chance!