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Summer Blooms and Stitches from Life in the Scrapatch

Good Morning!

Summer has been blooming in my scrapatch.

I have been having some ups and downs,

but life is good.

I have been doing a lot of sitting and crocheting.

I have been carrying my yarn bag and hooks wherever life takes me.

Last fall we had to cut back the big purple clematis

because it had suffered a lot of winter kill last year.

It is growing back green and beautiful.

Life can be like that.

Sometimes you need to regroup and carry on ...

... and bloom.

The wall of rhododendrons in our driveway have also bloomed.

My kitties ...

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I Like Thursday # 175 ~ Cassian ~ Thankful Thursday from Life in the Scrapatch

Good Thursday!

I am Cassian and I am thankful for me furrever home.

I have been living here in my forever home for a year now

and had my annual check-up at the vet last night

where I received my three year shot for rabies and distemper,

so I am feeling a bit sore and sleepy today.

This is what I looked like last November just before my humans let me in to stay.

I was not even a year old and all on my own on the streets and it was getting cold.

I was named for some handsome ...

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I Like Thursday #172 ~Stitching with the Kitties from Life in the Scrapatch

A good day for more Stitching

... with the kitties, of course!

Fall has arrived in my scrapatch and it has been alternately

gray and windy and then sunny and bright.

Fall always makes me want to sit and stitch

while sipping a warm cup of latte.

Three of my kitties, Nutmeg and Maestro and Cassian,

like their own dish of foamy milk.

Yes, the kitty is on the table.

Yes, I wash the table afterwards.

The kitties also have beds on my cutting table when I sit there to stitch.

I like their company.

Katniss is snuggled down in that ...

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Scrappy Saturday Sewing with the Scrapatch Cats from Life in the Scrapatch

The kitties and I have been busy sewing more scrappy blocks for our

Scrappy Irish Chain Quilt

Maestro prefers to help in my piecing and pressing area.

Maestro has been sew helpful.

Here she is staring at me because I am not winding more bobbins.

Maestra loves winding bobbins and would carry them away

to inspect them for quality issues, if permitted.

Nutmeg prefers to help with on the cutting table and with block layout.

Nutmeg gives the "tail of approval" to proceed with this block.

Once in awhile, kitty needs her nap in my cutting table kitty bed.

I ...

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Scrappy Saturday ~ Yarn Scrap Style from Life in the Scrapatch

Scrappy Saturday ~ Yarn Scrap Project

When I was quilting daily, I used to very often take a break on Saturdays and play with my fabric scraps for the day. Since I have been sitting and stitching with my yarn instead of sewing at my machine, I am playing with my yarn scraps today.

The yarn that is stitched in the bottom of the photo is from my current project.

The center of the scrap project is this sample swatch I made in the Honeycomb Tunisian Crochet stitch. After making this I decided this color changing yarn was not well suited ...

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I Like Thursday # 80 ~ Quilty Kitty Love from Life in the Scrapatch