Pets on Quilts 2013

Boy oh boy, am I coming late to the party!  But I just couldn't let the Pets on Quilts party slide by without joining in, could I?  Not with a beautiful kitty like Gypsy to share, right?

Gypsy is 17 years old this week - lookin' pretty good for an 'old lady' isn't she?

In these first pictures, she is sitting on "her" quilt.  This is a quilt that I found at a yard sale.  It was very dirty and all wadded up, half in and half out of a black plastic trash bag, lying in the dirt!!!  I was so offended, I huffed out loud and grabbed it up immediately.  I asked the lady how much she wanted for it before I even looked at it.  I wanted to take it home and nurse it back to health!  Imagine my shock when she said, "Well, is $3.00 too much?"  Trying very hard not to appear too eager, I paid her quickly and left.  I was even more surprised when I got it home and found that even though it was pretty dirty, it was unstained and in great shape, and it was even custom quilted!!!

"What are you up to now, Mom?  Can't you see I'm trying to take a nap?"

True story.... I took this quilt to my Guild meeting that month and told the story of finding it in the dirt.  When I unfolded it to show the group, one girl on the front row blurted out, "I think I made that quilt!"  Sure enough, after looking it over up close she remembered making it for a raffle several years earlier and never knew what had happened to it.  Needless to say, we were all amazed at that coincidence!!!

"Uh-oh!  There's that flashy box again!!!  Don't you have any business of your own to get into?"

The quilt was given a home on our sofa in the living room, and before long Gypsy had claimed it as "hers."  Being a long-hair cat, she sheds like crazy, so I'm delighted to have something catch that hair besides my wine-colored sofa!!!  Gypsy's quilt goes with us when we travel and helps her feel comfortable even in a strange environment.  She is a true quilter's kitty and loves her quilt!

"Okay, you can play with that flashy box all you want - I'm taking my nap!!!"

In the evenings, after hubby has gone to bed and I'm ready to relax, I have recently begun sitting in my recliner upstairs in my sewing room, watching taped TV, and working on whatever knitting project happens to be current.  It's soothing and helps me relax enough to get sleepy - something that gets harder and harder to do the older I get LOL!!!  Gypsy has caught on to my routine and loves to come sit in my lap and catch a few zzzzz's.  The minute she hears the TV come on, she shows up at the foot of the chair, ready to jump aboard.

If you look very closely, you can see that I snuggle up under my blue-and-white flannel rag quilt, My Blue Heaven

Sometimes she gets aggravated with me though when the knitting yarn "tickles" the hair on her back, or if I move around for some reason and poke her with one of the needles LOL!!!  Can you tell she was not particularly happy with me because I was trying to take her picture?  Yes, her face is very expressive :*D  If she were human, she would be Sophia on The Golden Girls LOL!!!

Here she has chosen to sit in the other recliner in my sewing room while I was sewing.  This is my Blue Pineapple Blossoms quilt, a Bonnie Hunter design.  Just in case you can't read kitty expressions, she is very snarkily sweetly telling you all to have a wonderful week and to leave her alone now so she can take a nap!!!

I think at her age I'll take a lot of naps too!  

I just hope I have beautiful quilts to snuggle up with like she does =^..^=
Sleep tight, my friends!!!

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Hugs & Blessings!

Teresa

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