Yeah that's my baby who thinks he's a handicap assist cat, loves to open and close doors not always helping with his trick, but he is a great heating pad in a pinch. Today as we were finishing the quilt he earned a middle name though... Hinder... He's quite the pest when he decides he should be the center of attention, wouldn't be too bad but he ALWAYS thinks he needs to be the center of attention

that is one heck of a ball of lint on your quilt. You need a lint roller.

The quilt looks cool. Or warm, and cool.

Lol, that's actually how I got him off, we played rollover till he was off the quilt. Whole new meaning to lint roller come to think of it

Love it! My cat loves to lay on things like a grocery sack, environmentally friendly bag, etc. So I got the idea to put an old hand towel on the end of my bed and she stays on it about 90% of the time now. Plus I decided that I no longer liked my husbands rule that curtains stay closed. He likes to protect the house. I sleep in a separate room because of the amount and decible of his snoring. You can look directly from my window in the bathroom so he really likes my drapes pulled. I use a sleep eye mask to bed and I leave the drapes open and Miss Melody loves that spot now. I try to make sure my bedroom door is closed just the right way so that some sunlight gets into the hallway making it feel bright but there isn't a direct sight line to the bathroom

My hubby and uncle are the same way too, keep the curtain CLOSED. It's a wonder I don't have scurvy especially during the summer when I can't take the heat to go outside. But after the uncle leaves I should be able to set-up my own music/craft/reading-writing room with bright walls, natural light and comfy chair, in what is currently our bedroom.

We'll knock open the closet fully for a nice floor to ceiling bookcase, put shelves in the corner to display/hold the smaller instruments. A little table on the back wall for the knitting and sewing machines with cubbies underneath for yarn, hooks and needles and such. Piano to the opposite wall, and if I can find it a big round wicker chair, the one that's a circle with a futon like mattress, sooo comfy and curly a chair, I used to feel just like a fat lazy cat in the old one we used to have. Just curl right up into it and snuggle down, kneed a few lumps on occasion to make it just right....purrrrrrfect for reading.

Starznight, I did the same for my office. When I first put it together it was play room for grand child, library, office and sewing room. Since I no longer needed the closet and only one door was hanging on, we took that one off, put a tension rod in the doorway and hung a valance, painted the wall inside a cool and friendly color, left the closet organizer up so I could have room to put things in an organized fashion, bought the real cheap rolling 3 drawer plastic organizers that fit right into the lowest of the clothes racks of the organizers, slid my daughter's unused school desk. Wala,,,,,a sewing room!!!! My daughter made me a wreath made out of scrap fabric in school and some one gave me a really neat ceramic wall hanging that has a quilt on it and a friendship statement. Thank you HGTV for the idea

? to all you crafty people here. My sister wants to start knitting. she has fibro so her brain can be like ours as far as understanding and retaining info. She has never tried it before. She doesn't have use of a computer or tablet. Any ideas of what I can do or refer her to a book. she doesn't think her husband will fork out the money for a class. I suggested she see if there is anybody n the retirement home Mom lived at for so many years or call some nursing homes

I finally made it to an actual yarn store today.

Spent $37 on three hanks of yarn!

Trying to decide what I'm going to do with the yarn. I'm either going to make a garter stitch scarf. Or, I'll be doing a crochet scarf, with some larger stitches.

Not giving the scarf away when I'm done. If I'm going to drop nearly $40 on yarn. I'm keeping the finished project.

My inner cheapskate is kind of crying about spending so much money on yarn. I'm thinking about how much Red Heart yarn I could have bought for that kind of money. But, it's really pretty yarn, and it's squishy. I like the squishy.

I love squishy yarns too and I also have a hard time wrestling with the me who used to live on ramen noodles (worse still used to eat leftover ramen noodles) to the me of today who can afford a nice steak when I like, when it comes to buying things. Even trying to rationalize that a soft wool scarf would cost in the hundreds from the store while the yarn to make it is only around $50 I still cringe. It's a hard thing to spoil one's self, while spoiling other seems so much easier. But at the same time it's still important to give ourselves a bit of pampering.

I can't wait to see your latest, even though I'm being dreadfully lazy on the crafting right now darn the Sims 4

I decided on knitting it in garter stitch. (which I'm actually purling, because I purl better than I knit. Purling each row gives you garter stitch, just like if you were knitting.)

I think it's a boucle yarn. It's bumpy, and is really squishy. Reason I decided to knit it is because I think it might be handspun. There's some parts of the yarn strand that's very thin. Some of it's very thick. I don't like crocheting with yarn that goes thick to thin. When I crochet, I like the yarn to be a nice uniform size.

Normally I'm not a fan of boucle, but this one is just really nice. (it better be nice! I paid a lot for it!)

Like the colors too. It's also a handpainted yarn. There's, green, purple, pink, red shades to it. I cast on about 20 stitches, and I've probably purled about five rows now. (counting rows in boucle is impossible. Stitches get lost in the bumpies) So far, I like it. Feels like it's going to be a warm scarf. I think the yarn is a wool with some sort of acrylic blend. Also pretty sure it's more wool than acrylic. The yarn band is inside the yarn cake that the store owner rolled it up for me. (for the non-yarn people here, some yarn is sold in hanks, and has to be wound up into a ball by hand, or a "yarn cake" with a yarn winder before it can be used, otherwise you'd end up with a big tangle of yarn)

Because she put the yarn band, with all the info inside the yarn cake, I'm a little hesitant to fish that out of the center. Don't want to ruin the structural integrity of the yarn cake just yet. So glad that the store owner will wind the yarn for free. I don't have a swift at home. I have a winder, but I don't use yarn sold in hanks enough to justify buying a swift.