A Little Yarn On The Side

THE QUILT IS DONE!!!!! THE QUILT IS DONE!!!!!!! THE QUILT IS DONE!!!!!!!!!!! If I knew how to make it do it, my blog would be playing the theme from "Rocky" right now.......

I have 5 days, so after dropping Andy off at the airport and running a few errands to make sure I actually had some food this week, my sidekick and I settled down to some serious crafting. First, we flattened out the cool home-decorating material though getting the pattern cut out proved a bit more difficult than I had planned.... I did manage to work around Theo without cutting his tail, but a small amount of fur was lost.... though as his winter coat is truly in now, it's pretty hard to tell.  Mercifully, Theo decided to leave the room while I spray-basted the pieces and the batting together but he was back for the sewing Honestly, if he could ever learn to operate the sewing machine without me, I think my status as Most Favorite Human would be in jeopardy. What are we making, you might ask? Cornucopias! I still want to add braid or trim to the openings of each one, and I'm pretty pleased with the small braid here but I'm thinking some sort of black de...