Tommy suggested that I should give the owl wings if I wanted the owl to help out with the mouse population explosion in the sewing room. Oops. This is the revised owl pattern. This complicates the piecing a bit, but it's okay because I plan on winging it.

This is what an owl population explosion might look like.

Here's an update on the mouse infestation in my sewing room. A brown one showed up today. What I don't know is whether the brown mouse sneaked in from outside or whether he's the offspring of complementary mice, for example the pink mouse and the green-blue mouse.

Tommy said he was conducting DNA sequencing to determine which of the baby mice belonged to which of the parents. But instead he came up with some cockeyed conspiracy theory involving sewing machines, robots, excessive fabric hoarding and receipts for new fabric purchases.

How about a teal turtle? This started out as a very precise block but the sewing got away from me and it turned into an experiment in free piecing. And because it's a turtle I even added some slow cloth when I appliqued the center circle by hand. The finished block (without the extra border to even it out) is roughly 5.5 inches by 11.5 inches. For more scrappy aqua and teal delights, visit the home base for the rainbow scrappy challenge.

Uh oh. Guess what showed up in the sewing room? Except I'm kind of confused. Who are the parents?

I understood how a pink mouse and a blue mouse could have purple babies. But how does a blue-green mouse and a green-blue mouse have a green baby and a blue baby? Tommy has gone off to do the DNA sequencing to determine who the parents are. DNA sequencing looks a lot like sleeping in front of the wood stove, but what do I know?

Oh dear. The mice are back. They have been arguing all morning about which is better blue-green or green-blue. My cat Tommy wants to know if that's a boy color or a girl color. He thinks we should keep them separated just in case. Maybe they have the answers over at the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Dog quilt pattern for a baby quilt.