Burgeoning Bureaucracy

 This is my month's progress on the Stonefield quilt by Susan Smith. I chose blocks with lots of circles...which I find the easiest to appliqué (using the Buckley circles, of course). 

My lack of progress is not at all my fault and stems completely from being held down by forces beyond my control. While I have learned to cope with living with Molly as a lap cat, I am now completely overwhelmed by Buddy becoming a lap dog. 

And to make matters worse, while Molly continues as my supervisor, Buddy has anointed himself the inspector. As I sew, Buddy inspects all the items at hand for "toy status." He grabs these items and runs off with them. Favorites are bobbins of appliqué thread, Buckley circles, and paper. He also likes straight pins but they are never left out.

Here is Molly showing me as much sympathy as she can muster. She is also coating fabric in cat hair...in this case Karen Nyberg fabric for the Murderbot quilt.

This is what neglected roses in Portland look like. I didn't cut them back this year so they all tower over me. I did notice these roses as I was picking blackberries, another indomitable force. Apparently thorns attract thorns. (I'm not complaining).