I finished tracing Wonder Under. This is very exciting. OK. It’s not. Well. Last night was hard, because my feet were tired from standing and walking, and here I was, standing some more. So it was exciting to be done with that.
I thought the piece had just over 800 pieces, but it was closer to 900…
It’s lots of bigger pieces, so it took up a lot of Wonder Under, about 7 1/2 yards.
And over 11 hours of tracing. But it’s done…and now on to cutting it out. Let’s assume another 10 hours or so…usually it’s less than the tracing time, but these are bigger pieces, so they’ll take longer to cut out. I wanted to be ironing to fabric this weekend, but that would mean doing a couple of hours of cutting every night. It’s certainly possible…I can’t guarantee it. Although I won’t have to stand to do it, so that’s a plus. The transition from a summer of sitting whenever I like to standing all the time is somewhat traumatic to my feet. Perhaps I need new shoes? My podiatrist would say so. But he doesn’t pay my bills.
The weather here is a little weird…we got a brief spurt of rain (and thunder) yesterday in the middle of a heat wave.
It’s supposed to be really hot again today and tomorrow. At least it’s cooling down at night…although it takes my house a while to realize cooler weather.
Meanwhile, adjustments abound. On the left is Satchemo…on the right is Kitten. It’s an uneasy truce at the moment…
I feel sorry for all of them, but hopefully there will be just a few more days of drama and then they’ll all calm down.
Meanwhile, best thoughts to Texas…may the rain end soon. It doesn’t matter what we think about climate change at the moment…real live people and animals are trying to survive. Let’s take care of them and then figure out the science.
*The Strokes, Someday
Kathy Nida 
Okay, you didn’t have enough animals… I assume that Satchemo needed rescue? And Simba? (what breed is he, anyway?) Bless your heart!
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