The 'eyes' have it!

While I was going about my chores, this morning, I noticed I was being supervised by our cat, Marcella.

She has developed a new trick. Whenever she can't find us or wants to play, you can hear hear meowing as she wanders around the house. When she finds one of us, she always has a toy in her mouth which she drops at our feet and then look expectant. Today, I realized how much she relies on us. I had gone to pick up my son from college. When we opened the backdoor, the toy was resting on the doormat. Marcella had obviously either gotten bored or lonely while we were gone.

An Afternoon of Work?

 My husband said that unless I work on my sewing machine every day and not with just straight sewing, I'm not getting my money's worth. Oh, darn, I had to spend the time trying out new embroidery patterns I downloaded this morning. The suffering I'm going through!

I enjoyed the 'practice' as they were small patterns and only took about 30 minutes each depending on how many thread changes I had to make for the colors. I've found the main thing is to be very, VERY careful when threading the machine and always start with a new needle.

I do have plans for the completed ones with visions of new and improved tote bags and quilts dancing through my head. I also learned to multitask today . . . While the machine was doing it's work, I did necessary hand sewing on projects that were neglected with the invasion of the new machine.