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the objects of design the objects of design blog tutorials fused monday april 27 2026 zippers yesterday i pulled out a bin of about a gazillion and five zipper blocks this is also a inspiration from lynn dykstra s blog and her series of solid and pattern blocks the blocks are so fun to make i went a bit overboard in experimenting with color combinations when i tried to put them together i was blinded by the chaos so i limited the range of hues a bit while this seems like a good start i think i might need to make some more blocks and while we re here i found some pictures of buddy and friends on an old ipod and was adding them to the photo library on my desktop computer the device that you don t take with you to be fair to molly that is the face i would have if my brother licked my face and here s buddy with his other sister cyclone this was back when the kittens were fosters named by the shelter as typhoon buddy cyclone and hurricane molly cyclone was the only kitten that wasn t a foster failure she was adopted the same day i returned her after socialization here s buddy providing a visual commentary on the construction of bonnie hunter s idaho square dance and here s buddy with an incredible impersonation of buddy posted by sally trude at 7 35 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 26 2026 postage due my last plan for this quilt was to make 16 by 16 patch blocks and then arrange them until i had another plan that was to just put it together and call it finished so let s call this quilt top finished i had a momentary lapse where i thought maybe it needed a border maybe some quiet space and then more postage stamps but then i remembered that although its on the small side finished stamp size is 75 inches it weighs as much as a large quilt despite a bright sunny day i had quite a bit of trouble taking a good photo of this quilt top sometimes my camera does a better job but this time i went with the phone i would not have understood this sentence for most of my life here is a close up it s seeing the close ups that remind me what fun this quilt top was to make and here is a reminder to savor the quiet moments posted by sally trude at 11 45 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 23 2026 vintage plaid quilt top here is the finished quilt top using the plaid and some striped shirts that i had deconstructed then stored over on lynn dykstra s blog klein meisje quilts she shows how to make this quilt based on a vintage quilt block she found on another blog you can read all about it here she used slightly larger strips than i did i used 1 5 inch strips and the block finishes at 11 inches of course once you finish a quilt top it is very easy to unfinish it by deciding it needs a border so let s change this quilt top s status to unfinished but at least its off the design wall molly wanted to demonstrate the importance of holding down the ruler firmly to ensure accurate cuts and i wanted to demonstrate the importance of removing cats from the cutting table before cutting fabric and of course as i was finishing up the quilt top that is unfinishing it i saw this eye candy show up in this weeks listing of estate sales posted by sally trude at 1 12 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 1 2026 a foolish post so believe it or not the sewing machine is humming again with minimal interference i mean supervision from molly these are all the components arranged in the final block arrangement i have had this quilt on my want to do list for quite a while and i was in the mood for plaids so here we are i will go into the origins and inspiration for this quilt in a later post but molly has concerns about the downfall of humanity molly originally had high hopes for ai and expected all references to cat to refer to her as the most intelligent and beautiful cat in the universe but now she along with the rest of us are horrified by the deluge of ai slop creeping into our daily lives molly was horrified to see this disfigured cat with a triangle on the wrong side of the face and no mustache how is this even allowed i have to say the look of distain saying get that camera out of my face is quite realistic i personally am more concerned about the implications of the photo must we insist that our clothes come fresh out of the dryer covered in cat hair i guess i preferred the old times when the cat had to apply fur directly by sitting on a person or rubbing against them sigh posted by sally trude at 4 12 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday march 13 2026 molly s rebuttal please disregard the rumblings of my befuddled staff i am an overlord so i certainly would never consider being an adult as well a complete contradiction meanwhile i would like to thank you for all the kind loving comments you left about my brother although buddy was too soft with his staff management style i did appreciate his backup support when i was getting my beauty sleep i ve noticed that staff is taking advantage of my nap time to use the sewing machine she is trying to finish sewing the mini postage stamps into the bigger blocks so she can have the design wall available for other things she says the sewing is easy enough but twirling the seams slows things down a bit here s the back with the twirled seams and please don t mention the obvious glaring mistake staff can say some very mean things when offered constructive advice from a kitten so just know that she knows has no plans to fix it and tiptoe away if you can meanwhile did you know that i can find a wool ironing mat no matter where you try to hide it posted by sally trude at 12 57 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday march 10 2026 adjustments everything gets a bit harder to navigate when a sinkhole unexpectedly forms in the middle of one s life molly and i are learning that every family benefits from having at least one adult in the family and i think molly is slowly coming to the realization that it won t be me stepping up to the plate to fill buddy s boots i did finally finish sewing the portland frog it took so long i had to make him a donut to sustain him the black fabric will become an outline and then i will put him in an urban environment i think that s why he looks a bit horrified the frog is 5 feet tall posted by sally trude at 3 50 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday february 5 2026 buddy buddy originally typhoon august 2015 to february 4 2026 buddy gave more heart than he had available he developed a fluid build up around his heart and in his abdomen given a poor prognosis he chose more time at home being coddled instead of further diagnostics even molly was nice to him i always thought i was taking care of two 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