The Tale of Two Cats ............ (Tilda Ones) ❤

Greetings lovely friends & readers

I try to find things to enjoy no matter what season we are in.  It's still wintery here but the Daphne is in full bloom & I have a garden full of Green Dragon Broccoli ready for picking, as well as the citrus trees being laden.

This was last Thursday's pickings & I also gave away 2 large heads of broccoli.  The oranges are small, but are sweet & tasty - these ones were picked for dehydrating.
 

                          I also picked a bunch of Camellia flowers before the rain bashed them & turned them brown.

Last year during our Lockdown, my friend Gail dug up a corner garden on her property & removed everything - she wanted to plant it in succulents.  She filled a rubbish bag full of winter roses (hellebores) & clivias.  When our Lockdown went to the next level & we were allowed to see people again, she asked me to burn the rubbish bag on my burning heap.   

(The variegated one is the third photo)

Instead I removed all the plants from the bag, cut them back (they looked rather sick for awhile) & planted them in my garden.  I am delighted this winter that the hellebores are flowering away happily & there are a wonderful mix of pinks & creams, & even a variegated one which I have not photographed particularly well.

This morning I picked a vaseful of the hellebore flowers to enjoy on my kitchen bench. The vase was a $1 Op Shop find & is perfect for sweet little bunches of flowers like this.

Before I went away to Mum's last month, I started work on one of the Tilda Cats - a free pattern off their website - go 

* here * & scroll down about half way.  I had the dark grey fleck fabric in my stash which I used for the body, & the dress is made from Tilda Woodland fabric.

Upon my return from Mum's I finished her - I thought I would give her to Juno (my stepgrandaughter) for Christmas, as Juno loves cats & they have a real life grey cat.

Click on the picture to enlarge & get a better view

The bag is included in the pattern - some of the Woodland range have the sweetest selvedge edges, including this with the coloured squirrels along it.  I cut it out & sewed it to my bag strap as I thought it was delightful.  The Tilda pattern doesn't have whiskers but I decided my cat needed some so I used a thin waxed leather thonging that I had in my stash.

 

I had barely put the finishing touches to Juno's Cat when my lovely friend Jane called out & commissioned me to make her a Tilda Cat.  Jane had her own pattern & wanted hers made in a pretty pale grey linen & the dress from a vintage floral sheet.

When it came time to cut the dress pattern out, I didn't need to iron the sheet as Pippi very kindly did it for me !!! 😉

I LoVe how Jane's cat turned out  -  in fact I love it better than the one I made for Juno 💚.  Jane's only request was that she have a green nose to match the green in the dress fabric.

And that she have a hanging loop on the back as Jane planned to hang her up.

My other finish this week was an Order for 20 mothball sachets for my friend Maria.  I haven't made these in awhile & the house smelt fresh & lovely with the dried mint inside them.

You can find the recipe for these at the bottom at the bottom of this post Here.

As I sit typing this today, the furry two are sound asleep on my bed (Yes on my good bedspread that I said they were Never Ever getting on !!!)

Wishing you a wonderful rest of the week dear friends,

Thanks so much for your visits here today,

With much love & friendship to You All,

Julie & the furry ones x0x0x