Wrapping Up Summer

A Few Signs that Summer is pretty much OVER! 

Dog Days of Summer - hot, Hot, HOT outside!

Oldest G-son's Birthday.
My first grand-love.

Football practice before the Season starts.
Youngest Babe all suited up.
He still looks a bit like bobble head.

There are a few times during the year that I like to re-group.  

End of summer - just before school starts is one of those times.

Yesterday I finished another UFO (#5 on the UFO list).

Laura Heine's Puurfect Cat Collage

This is for the up-coming charity auction for Cat Adoption Team, Whisker Wonderland.

 AND

I cleaned and organized my sewing space ....

I'm ready for Fall and new sewing adventures!

Doing My Duty For God and My Daughter's Charity

In the previous post, I wrote about the Cat Adoption Team and their upcoming Whisker Wonderland.  My daughter, Ana, has been volunteering at CAT for a long time.  She asked me to make some knitting bags and fabric baskets for the event.












 Here is my contribution:

For links to Fabric Basket tutorials, see previous post
http://quiltedq.blogspot.ca/2015/07/takin-break.html

If you are in the Portland, Oregon area and want to purchase these, or any of the many other wonderful things they will have available (along with good food and good people and a live auction) OR  if you love cats and kittens....plan to attend
Cat Adoption Team's Whisker Wonderland.
(and say "Hi" to my daughter)

Love You, Honey

What a face!

Takin a Break

I'm taking a bit of a break from my Christmas Quilts because my daughter asked me to make fabric baskets and totes for the Cat Adoption Team's (CAT) fund raiser in November, Whisker Wonderland.
(As a side note...this is a great organization.  My daughter has volunteered there for about 10 years, I think.)

http://catadoptionteam.org/

Here are a couple I made for Ana.  She knits so I  made one for home and one for toting around.

They're fast, they're easy and they satisfy the need to sew without thinking too hard.

Here are some helpful links to fabric basket patterns and tutorials:

http://radcrafter.com/2011/11/fabric-organizer-bin-aka-diaper-caddy-sewing-tutorial-and-free-pattern-download/

http://creativeideasforyou.blogspot.com/2010/11/baskets-and-handbags-patterns-and.html (scroll down)

Same Link as above






I'll make 6 total, two of each pattern and get them off to her by the end of the week.  If you are in the Pacific Northwest....look up Cat Adoption Team in Sherwood, OR.  And, say "Hi" to my daughter when you go pick out your new kitty.... :-)