Day 1 "Don't Let the Door Stop You" Blog Hop

I hope you enjoyed hopping for the first day of "She Who Sews" on Monday.  This time around the two hops will be alternating and this will go through Friday, February 7th despite what you see above in the banner.   We are lead in both hops by our cheerleader Carla of Creatin' in the Sticks and our head honcho Mdm. Samm.  THX to you both and our hop sponsors!

Thanks for stopping by today and please pop over to see my fellow bloggers on our featured day.  Here is the list for today:

Tuesday, January 28th
threads on my socks
How ART you?
Den syende himmel
Moosestash Quilting
life, quilts and a cat too   <<THAT's ME>>

And here is what I made to share with your today.  I believe, Mdm. Samm said to think "pincushions on steroids"?  Well, you know me and cats!  I found Cotton Ginny's "Mini Puffs" Cats and Dogs to be right up my alley!  These are not so "mini" though as they finish about 10 x 10.  It is made with the wool/acrylic blend of felt that Cindy recommends though I did not launder it first to get the puff effect.  Because I wanted my version to be able to hold a door should a breeze come up, I used an entire bag of poly-pellets to weight it down and then the stuffing material.  I don't think it is going anywhere!  LOL

I did borrow Cindy's idea of a white patch on the belly that comes on the larger puff model so it would look more like my Skyler.  Also I did not quite understand what I was supposed to do with the nose/muzzle combo. (I do now but at the time I didn't.)  I ended up digging around in Skyler's puffball (pom pom) stash, cut it in half and sort of slip covered it with pink felt as you would make a yo-yo.

 Here he is from another angle so you can see his tail a little better and just how chubby this dude really is.

On the job propping the bedroom door.  Those whiskers crack me up.

The pattern also featured a really cute dog and after all,  I have more than one door that needed propping.  Here he is hanging at the local park.

Showing his cropped tail

On the job at the front door.  Actually he took over for the molded resin dog that we have had for years.  I put that one out in the utility room and the rubber wedge ones are going under my sewing machine!!

How can you not smile when you see these two!?  Even DJ was getting into the process---"what did you put in this to make it so heavy?"   "Do you have its head on yet?"   Rarely is he that interested in what I am doing!

You may ask what Skyler thinks of the new additions?  Well, so far he has left the bow and scarf alone.  He has sniffed things quite intently too. Actually, I think I got in his catnip on the living room floor near his scratch box when I was taking dog pictures on my belly in the living room.  Skyler was getting quite silly when I was trying to get them both in the same shot, LOL

Hope you enjoy the remainder of BOTH hops.  I have to say that I missed last one, both as a participator and cheering the group on.  I got so far behind with the sewing room re-do that I just had to go look at Pinterest.  That's always an option if you find yourself lagging or need an over-view and here is the link for it  http://www.pinterest.com/mdmsamm/