For the Love of Ivy!

Yes!  Ivy gets to stay!

I took Ivy to the vet on Monday, curious as to anything we could find about her.

Vets in the time of pandemics are interesting places with even more interesting protocols put in place, as we found out when we brought Zoey home in March.

Call from the parking lot.  They will call you back when it is time to bring your pet into the front vestibule.  One client at a time, and you must be masked.

A vet tech will meet you and your pet in the vestibule, take down important information, and then take your pet through the inner door into the vets office while you wait in your car.

They checked all the usual things, no chip was found.  they shaved a bit of Ivy’s belly fur.  There is a spay scar – so at least there is that.

But she’s been outside for a while – flea and tick meds were administered, and I have some drops to give her twice a day in her ears – mites and fungus present.

I wish I knew the story of how she came to be at the QPO – but it is safe to say that her future story will be happier than her past one.

As to how she and Lola are getting along?

There is much curiosity between them, and only a little bit of hissing if one or the other gets too close.  But Lola is up to her old antics of pole dancing on the cat tree, using her scratching post and purring and accepting of the extra love I have been lavishing on her.

I think we are going to do just fine!

And from these photos – you can see that I spent yesterday laying out and starting the assembly process for my Blossom Time quilt!

And yes – those sashings are NARROW, so here is my hint of the day for you.  If you are sub-cutting strip sets into narrow increments – do your strip set sewing with a SMALLER STITCH.  

Keeping those seams from coming undone after cross-cutting has been a challenge.  I’ve had to resew in loads of places to anchor them and I know there will be more places to resew as I start joining rows together.

This should give you an idea -

And I didn’t notice until this morning when editing the photos that my lens was not as clean as I like it to be for photos – they turned out a bit hazy.

The block pattern for Blossom Time is found in the May/June 2019 issue of Quiltmaker Magazine in my Addicted to Scraps Column.  Digital copies are available.

This layout will appear in my next book – there is no pattern written yet as I am still working on the project. The quilt comes first, the pattern comes second.

Not sure what I will do for borders yet.  It’s a project in progress.

And all of this was happening while this visitor came along -

Prices were good for refilling the propane tanks in preparation for colder months ahead. Both the Quiltville Inn and cabin tanks were topped up.

You can see we had a beautiful August day in Southwestern Virginia yesterday.  That sunshine was beautiful!

Today – I’m making my weekly run to Wallburg to gather another van load of quilting stuff.  There are some other things we need as well.  I plan on being back by dinner time, so the continuation of Blossom Time quilt assembly will have to wait for another day.

Anything happening for your Wednesday?

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

When you know better, hopefully you do better!

Love this vintage elongated hexagon!

Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!