Charm Baskets -- Slow Sunday Stitching

This week I worked on a few more baskets:

Here's a basket handle being stitched in a 3rd grade classroom while the kids are at gym class.

I had time to stitch two more while our son was getting a few things at Dollar Tree.  The piece below came up a little short because I did not have enough fabric.  This handle will just be a little more narrow.  The red line came off when I hit it with the iron.  All good.  The baskets aren't perfect.  If we waited for perfection I'd never finish a quilt.  This project is all about relaxing, doing something productive, and enjoying things along the way.  I also love to use up scraps that others throw away.

The quilt pattern is called Charm Basket by Laundry Basket Quilts.  It is an Edyta Sitar design. 

LOTS of handles were stitched this week.  I posted about them and where they were made in previous posts.  I'll have to start a new finished basket count after the holidays.  It's getting exciting!

An update on the "outdoor" cat.  Bridget commented that the cat that "is not allowed" in the house will someday be sitting on my husband's lap.  HA!  I have been bringing it inside to watch TV with me too some evenings.  I asked my husband to "hold" the cat while I had to get up to fix his plate.  (Yes, sometimes I'm a good wife and fix a plate for him after a long work day and bring it to his chair--not always, but I do that...)

Here's a photo of my husband "holding my cat":

I wrap it like a "burrito" so that he can hold it.  Don't worry, it's used to being handled like this.  This is the original way that I taught our son to hold it when he didn't like to hold animals.  

This is the first time our son held it in late October.  It has taken me years for him to pick up an animal.  He will pet some of the other outside cats, but not pick them up.  Now he can go outside, pick up this one, and bring it to the house where it is not allowed.  LOL.

I'm linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.

Oh, and an update on the 2004 Dodge Ram:

A transmission has been found for it (less than 254,325 miles on it) and should arrive at the shop on Monday.  I'll probably have my truck back by the end of the week.