Patching the Patches

Jazzy has taken to burrowing in my and Wonderful Husband's bed, making a cave for himself out of our duvet.  I finally asked him what was wrong with his bed, and he told me he liked how big the duvet was.  So I offered him one of my quilts - the big one I usually use when I'm not feeling well.  It's got a flannel backing so it's cozy and the front is a quilt top I probably got out of a box lot at some point.  It's not a pretty quilt, which is why I made something out of it that I won't worry about if someone throws up on it.

Jazzy accepted, and has happily been sleeping under the quilt for several days now.  Upside down because he doesn't like flannel against his skin!  So I decided I'd probably better get around to patching the splits, mostly on seam allowances, where the maker of the quilt top clearly hadn't stuck to a quarter inch seam allowance.

I spent a couple pleasant hours this afternoon with needle, thread, and my scrap bag, mending. ^_^

I also made proto-sauerkraut yesterday:

I like using red cabbage sometimes because the sauerkraut ends up hot pink, which is fun.

Oh, and we went out this afternoon to play Pokemon Go for a while, then went to dinner at Chipotle.  We were wondering why the parking lot (and the restaurant) were so deserted.  We were the only ones there.  Then I twigged that the staff were clustered around a tablet behind the counter, watching the Superb Owl halftime show.  Question answered! ^_^

Down a Rabbit Hole

My doll collection may have grown a wee bit since August.  Into a new hobby.

But look, here's Kirsten!

At Costume College I picked up someone's rejected dress bodice, which had this light blue silk as one of its two fabrics.  After picking it apart, washing the pieces, and ironing them, I turned most of the one fabric into this Regency dress, altering one of the patterns from Josefina's Pretty Clothes.  The white and blue trims are silk ribbons; I happened into a lot of them at a thrift store a few months back.  For this dress, I just wrapped the ribbons around a line of straight stitches done with a long stitch length.  The lace is from... somewhere?  Maybe CoCo some years back, maybe a thrift store.  The gulf of time separates me from sure knowledge.