Here's a picture from the stash when I was working on a prototype of one of the flowers. I often whip up prototypes on the machine before executing the block by hand, just to make sure it works. That's a hard-learned lesson from several times in the distant past when it finally hit me that just because a block looks fantabulous when cut out from construction paper doesn't mean it will work in cloth. Paper does not unravel and wrinkle as paper does. You don't have to remember to cut paper on the bias. Paper, unlike cloth, has no weight, meaning you don't have to match weights when matching pieces of paper.
Because no version of this flower looked good once done (to me) it's safe to post because it's not in the final piece.
As usual Cuddle Kitty started off at the end of Fredi's extender and slowly inched himself closer until he was as much in the way as possible.
What I have to put up with, let me tell you. I still don't understand *why* he does this. I kinda get why he pulls the same stunt when I'm at the computer, but Fredi is making noise, things are moving, I am often cursing up a storm, he's had his tail accidentally stitched into something more than once, he gets shoved onto the floor or occasionally picked up and thrown across the room, and STILL he gets all up into everything.
And yet, so cute!
