Midnight Mystery Flimsy

So glad I took a couple of photos yesterday as it has poured all day today.

I haven't been exactly in love with the way my colours fell into place in this quilt as it's been coming together, think I'd have preferred switching the darks and lights, but that is part of the fun of doing a mystery, right?  However, seeing it full frontal, wink, I think it's kinda purty!

I absolutely love Cheryl's pattern, and it was fun puzzling over how it would all come together in the end.

Always fun to get that "stained glass" effect

I shopped my stash for it, using leftovers from three totally different projects: a bed quilt, a lap quilt, and a table runner.  The runner and lap quilt were gifts; the bed quilt is mine. I didn't have enough of the taupe fabric, so added in a cat-themed ivory, to go with the Buggy Barn cat-themed red fabric.

I have a small tip that I figured out for sewing over places where there is a lot of bulk:

I found, after several of these intersections, that rather than pinning exactly AT the aligned points, it was more efficient to pin twice, once just before and once just after that crucial point.  The presser foot did not get so hung up on the top of the point and I could use the pins to help feed the fabric through.  Yes, I very carefully sewed over the pins.

While I was busy finishing this yesterday, Rocco was busy racing around all afternoon with his new best buds at Camp Bow Wow.

First he had an interview, which he passed with flying colours.  He met two other dogs first so they could see how he got along with others...

Famously!!

He sat.  He laid down.  He stayed.  All the while having the two new dogs sniffing around him.  He was rewarded with a treat or two.

Then he got to go in Indoor Play Yard 2, where he sat down to catch his breath for all of, hmmm, 3 minutes for the rest of the afternoon until we picked him up at 4:45!

I downloaded their app where I can check the webcams anytime, (webcams are available through their website too) and where I also found out that there are many many Camp Bow Wows across the US.  I am not an affiliate, but I sure am happy we found them, and that they are so close to us!  Rocco will definitely be going back for more fun daycare sessions.

I might be out of QBL for a bit as my laptop is suddenly acting very weird and not letting me save my edited photos in picmonkey, which is why you are seeing these without "mmm quilts" on them, and Word keeps crashing as I'm working with shapes for the diagrams for Pocketful of Sunshine, a free pattern I hoped to release this week.  So close...  Of course my 3-year extended AppleCare expired earlier this month.  Hopefully the laptop, like its operator, just needs a good night's sleep to refresh itself.

Linking up with Let's Bee Social and WIP Wednesday.