Going Batty!

Bat Cats, Bat Cats.....what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for youuuuuu!

I couldn't resist messing around with a photo of Bisky. When cats yawn, I can't help but think of vampires and especially this time of year. lol So for fun, I made this bat for hubby to put on his wall at work. I also did a search to see what I came up with for vampire cats and this is what I found! They are just hilarious!

This last one is my daughter's cat. I shall have to make a Bat Cat for her too!

Now I have to tell you a funny thing that happened to me this morning. I am not an early morning person, so it is usually around 8:30 or 9:00 when I roll around. This morning was different. Well actually it started last night, as I kept hearing one of the cats and with as many as we have, I had no clue who to blame, but I went to bed. It wasn't cold out, so the cat could stay out for the night since I didn't see him or him come to me when I called. Finally at 7 AM I hear a ruckus in the bathroom. Hubby had gone to work already, so I thought he had shut Zack, our black and gray tabby in the room with me as he does sometimes to keep another cat at peace by separating them. So I get up, running around in my PJ's and discover it isn't him making any noise. He was staring at the floor where water lines are in the shower. (Mind you, our house still isn't fixed up yet from all of the water damage we had). Then I hear, thunk, thunk, thunk, and the noise is under the house. I peek through the holes where the shower and tub are and there is Jack, our one eyed gray and white tabby trying to figure out how to get in the house! We have a modular home and the contractors had been here the day before to put insulation in the underbelly of the house. Here they had sealed it up with poor old Jack in it!

So here I am equipt with scapal (paring knife) and flash light.

I felt like I was performing a C section as I slit the belly open to give birth to a full grown cat!

Only a cat mom could go through this. LOL Needless to say, Jack got a special breakfast for all of his trauma.

When the contractors come back to work on the floors and the walls now, I will have to count cats before I let them close it up!

I have had other batty things going on this past week. Here are Herky and Zack I caught napping in my batting scraps. I keep a scrap bin just for them and when it gets full of fur, I throw it out and they get a new nest every so often.

I had batting scraps left over from doing quilts this past week. Next time they will get some black batting. lol

I finished piecing this colorwash chain quilt for my SIL. This memory quilt of her husband has been one that she has wanted to have done for quite some time. I helped her start it, but because of her strokes, she has difficulty trying to complete things that tire her out. I plan to give it to her during the retreat next week and we will work on the binding. In the center is Sandy and David's wedding picture taken in 1985. In fact we got married the week after they did.

Her husband died from kidney cancer when he was 50 years old. We sure miss him!

At the last quilt retreat, Sandy bought some UFO blocks from another quilter. These are flannel. She didn't know what she would do with them (other than hand them to me and tell me to make something. LOL) But for $4.00 she couldn't simply pass them up! Well, there simply wasn't 9 to make it a nice piece, so I decided that If I made one in the center as a focus then it would work. I went online and got the background fabric from Fabric.com and after playing with it, I realized I had to find another green to accent everything. This time I found a color I liked at a store on Ebay. They only had a yard of it listed, so I had hoped it would be enough or try to cut corners somewhere else. I also had some natural colored flannel to make the quilt longer for her for a lap quilt. Then had a gal do an embroidery with her name on it.

I would have done applique with folk art flowers in the top and bottom areas, but I knew I didn't have time before next week with other things going on, so I simply quilted leaves.

I was also skimpy, but was able to border the extra UFO blocks to make them into pillow covers.

I had also given her a flannel panel that was in my stash that I didn't want. I should have known better as I would get that to quilt for her too! LOL I had enough of the reddish colored flannel and it looked rather folk artsy enough to work for it.

I have gone through bats and more batts this post! AND there is even more! During the month of October, I offer half off on batting with my machine quilting service! Details on machine quilting, you can find here at Enchanted Threads. Hurry before time runs out! Well, I must get back to quilting, so I am off..... to the Batt cave!