We have two visiting felines. They arrived late Friday night. They are sisters and you would think their personalities would be similar. Nope. You would also think they would get along. Nope.
Fluffy settled in right away. A real Purr Girl. Cuddles does not cuddle. She was terrified. We had no sighting of her until Sunday night. Which was a worry. It doesn't happen often, but some cats there is a concern that their organs start shutting down if they don't eat or drink within a certain time frame. At least that's what we were told about our cats a long time ago when we sent them to a kitty resort while we vacationed.
Cuddles was way over that time frame. My knees are sore from crawling around checking in every hiding place we could think of. Because of all our hobbies and clutter, there are a LOT of hiding places. We really need to get rid of some stuff. We did have a sighting once. But by the time we got some food and water she had moved on.
For the first time ever, in our years of having cats come to visit, canned tuna for humans did not work. I opened more cans of different food than I've ever had to for visiting felines. Fluffy thought she was in heaven. Finally Sunday evening around 11 pm there was a Cuddles sighting. We were able to get her to eat. Now we could relax a bit. Monday and Tuesday there were a few sightings but no sounds or signs of her eating. This morning she came out for a visit. I still haven't seen her eat, but she batted at a bit of yarn so she can't be in that bad of shape food wise.
With constantly searching for Cuddles there was little time to get into the sewing room to work on the last bit of the bird house wall hanging. I finally got to the sewing machine and it's done.
The flowers were supposed to have button centers. But I hate sewing on buttons. So I used the Flower foot that DS picked up for me months ago. Very easy to use but the instructions that came with it got me a bit confused. Actually they were good instructions, I was just too impatient. There's a close up photo of the flowers with two different size centers. There are quite a few different looks you can get with this foot. I'll have to play around with it some more.
Now that is finished I get to test those attachments we found at the Salvation Army Thrift Store yesterday I don't want to start any sewing projects until the cats are back home with their owners. Pins, thread, etc. are very interesting things to check out when you're not familiar with them. And a safety hazard. In the past we've taken care of cats that were not as good at finding places to hide. I could always get them out of the sewing room when it was time to close it up. Cuddles is just too good at hiding.
But sewing machines can be brought out to the kitchen counter for a good clean and for checking out attachments etc. So That's my next sewing related project.
