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the objects of design july 2021 the objects of design blog tutorials fused saturday july 31 2021 changes here are a new set of microspools this is the most normal thing i did today i am following advice from barbara at cat patches i know she s not real and using follow it to replace feedburner first this allows me to just transfer the emails from feedburner to follow it so no one will have to sign up again also follow it is a blog news reader so you can set your own preferences right now follow it is moving the email addresses so hopefully this post will come to you from them then i will shut down feedburner so you don t get two posts although this might accidentally happen for the first day and just to make my head throb i have moved to a new photo editor affinity photo trying it out the first time was faster than using photoshop elements which is in a death match with my operating system and spends most of its time showing spinning balls of doom and if that s not enough change who would like a new cat just kidding this is the cat that comes to visit molly and buddy today she he was sleeping just outside the front window she he lives down at the end of a nearby cul de sac with very young children meanwhile seeing a black bear wander into the backyard of the kitten academy in connecticut made me miss having bears wander through my yard in virginia if you missed the footage you can see it through the kitten academy twitter account here https twitter com kitten_academy status 1421264443367899142 i was a bit disappointed with the new mother cat because i was hoping kitten academy was going to branch out to bear cubs i guess we ll just have to put up with another litter of kittens posted by sally trude at 3 05 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 29 2021 burning up and what could i mean by the phrase burning up maybe it refers to cutting all the spools i need to make the final dimensions of the microspools quilt although i don t remember what they are or maybe i am referring to the current heat wave here in portland although it is fun in the shade compared to the heat dome so yes burning up refers to the fun fact that our time with feed burner is up you know that helpful feature that notifies you when there is a new post and i know that it feedburner emails were supposed to end last month and bloggers discussed the various new options months ago but i have procrastinated because that s how i know i m alive i have decided to go with mailchimp because that is what joyful puttering is doing and i like how it works also my nickname for molly is monkey this post is actually a test of the code embedded in the sidebar of this blog if you signed up to subscribe by email using feedburner i will be asking you to resubmit your email address when i get this working i recommend that you procrastinate and not try it out quite yet because right now i have enabled all of the bot protections that make life miserable for humans meanwhile if this is an important feature for you i would love to know how much of the posting you would like to receive in the email or do you just want a link to the blog oh dear i ve prattled on too long about feedburner and mailchimp i have sent the only living creature who listens to me to snoozeville posted by sally trude at 9 22 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 26 2021 spool dance thank you for the kind offers of fabric scraps but i have quite a lot right here for the spools i cut one 1 by 2 inch rectangle and four 1 inch squares i have over 400 spools cut now and have a massive pile of fabric to cut more from i pulled fabric from my hoard of fat quarter to half yard hunks i could see a tell tale bite out of the corner of the hunk if i had used that fabric already next i ll be pairing background fabric to each spool the background cuts are 1 by 2 inch rectangles i do allow duplicates for the background so that s how i ve been spending my day meanwhile you may be unaware that buddy and molly are participating in the summer olympics in the category of feline freestyle interpretative dance shhh the dance begins exceptional paw work by molly but buddy is overthinking his head placement and has let his paws curl under this may cost them some points molly s paw lines are flawless and her neck extension may help draw the judges eyes away from buddy s self conscious hunch even the judges are standing for this awesome final pose and applaud as buddy pulls out the stops and extends his paw in an exquisite line posted by sally trude at 11 38 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 25 2021 spooling out of control when i started the microspool charm quilt journey i was aiming for 1600 spools this could be organized as a 40 by 40 quilt that would be 60 inches square i have been sewing like crazy and finally completed all 1600 microspools half dark and half light the ones shown above are the duplicates i found when i sorted through the spools and yes there are even duplicates in the duplicates look for the gold molly rightfully scoffed at me because 60 inches square would not even be large enough to make a horse blanket for buddy so now we are going to aim for something more in the 70 by 90 inch range and this means i m going to need roughly 400 more light spools and 300 more dark spools and if you are wondering if there is anything thriving after our portland heat dome here you go this is the first year for this artichoke around here people tend to grow them for decoration and so i m going to let this go to bloom too also if any of you know of any recipes for changing zucchini and cucumbers into fabric please let me know meanwhile molly would like to report some recent bot activity on our blog i got a comment held by moderation on a blog post for september 15 2018 featuring the bitcoin quilt top also known as whatchamacallits and originating with cathy at sane crazy crumby quilts the comment said the blog post violated bonnie hunter s copyright on her new pattern called bitcoin the comment said i should take the post down because i included block measurements at first i thought it was written by a human who accidentally didn t notice that it doesn t even have the same construction and only shares a name that given the general popularity of coin quilts is an obvious modern quilt name and of course buddy thinks it should be called dogecoin in any case i had to agree with molly that the comment was made by a bot because only a robot would assume that time travel back to 2018 is possible a human making the comment would undoubtedly ask why i used time travel to make a quilt instead of going back to prevent the birth of hitler posted by sally trude at 3 31 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday july 15 2021 microspools and performance art here are 104 of the latest microspools i will have less after i check for duplicates and remove them i am aiming for a charm quilt where each of the spool patterns are different and this photo is a bit off these spools are much lighter in value than shown and yesterday i conducted an experiment you may have heard of cats and dogs with separation anxiety but what about the anxiety feline staff might feel after being gone for the day so yes i broke the bonds and drove out to the oregon coast for the day and when i came back there was a fascinating performance art project where the roads in the vicinity of portland turned into a parking lot everyone me included could no longer sit alone at home so we all went out to sit alone in our cars meanwhile buddy s performance art piece is i m a cat because i m in a cat tree and here is molly performing sweet dreams the kitten s camouflage posted by sally trude at 2 42 pm 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday july 12 2021 hearts r us i know i know you re thinking not another pastel heart quilt why can t she make something different like a rainbow animal quilt okay just joking and here s the story during the pandemic one of the estate sale companies held online auctions instead of having people shop from the house over a weekend one of their auctions included a quilters stash and while there was heavy bidding on kits and designer sets of fat quarters i went for the scraps and bits in the midst of the box of scraps were the start of several heart quilts one with four blocks of four hearts pointed inward so i made the smaller border hearts to make into this baby quilt and yes the quilter also planned to make a full size heart quilt and had cut lots of soft pastels for that quilt those are now being transformed into microspools posted by sally trude at 9 20 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 11 2021 gone fishing the fish are finally together it went swimmingly and now that their pointed noses are embedded in a seam they finally have blunt noses well except for the ones in the front column who have to wait for me to figure out how wide the side borders should be although i have been quilting for quite a while i am open to learning new techniques in this case i learned that it is better to just walk away rather than try to cut fabric around a kitten buddy however does not like to learn new things so now he is sporting yet another swollen paw because he won t learn to not put his paw in his sister s face posted by sally trude at 11 32 am 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday july 6 2021 repurposed scraps here is a baby quilt 32 inches square that i put together out of bits from a bonnie hunter mystery challenge that i never finished under no other circumstances would hsts half square triangles exist in my sewing room meanwhile molly is insisting that i make a correction to the last blog post she says that although i did not outright lie she considers the blog post misleading molly notes that more plants have died from my neglect than from extreme weather molly apologizes that she cannot provide an exact number of plants that i have killed but for purposes of this discussion she suggests we round the very large number to infinity posted by sally trude at 7 34 am 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday july 3 2021 neutral rainbow here are the purple bitcoin and 16 patches i had hoped to show for the last week of june for the rainbow scrappy challenge instead i decided to participate in the portland heat dome challenge the sewing room was off limits because it was outside of our cool zone where cool is less than 90 degrees so instead of patchwork i can offer photos of my garden where the rhododendrons are exploring browns for july they were not happy to lose all of their tree shade from the ice storm and now think life is not worth living at 114 degrees f also brown and not happy meanwhile the interior of the house has been infected with the dreaded pestilence of bedbugs but still a suitable tribute to neutrals posted by sally trude at 8 53 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog about me sally trude view my complete profile follow by email subscribe powered by blog archive 2026 20 april 4 march 2 february 1 january 13 2025 37 december 3 november 4 october 3 september 1 august 4 july 2 june 4 march 2 february 2 january 12 2024 93 december 19 august 4 july 6 june 13 may 9 april 8 march 6 february 14 january 14 2023 137 december 25 november 30 october 31 september 9 april 6 march 2 february 11 january 23 2022 72 december 2 november 17 october 4 september 2 august 1 july 4 june 5 may 2 march 1 february 11 january 23 2021 65 december 9 november 3 october 7 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