Sassy bag!

If you follow me on Instagram or Tumblr (and I'd love it if you would!), you've likely noticed a recent, um, uptick in the number of photos I post of my beloved Maine Coon kitty, Sassy.

I swear: I have a good reason for this foray into crazy-cat-lady territory. 

It seems that we have a crazy-cat-lady-in-training in my friends' daughter, T. This kid is obsessed with Sassy. I can't tell you how glad I am that someone else finally recognizes that Sassy deserves to be worshipped. 

So I decided the holidays were a perfect time to treat T to a little gift that would feed her feline fetish: a tote bag with Sassy's face on it!

For this project, I worked with Blumenthal Craft brand inkjet printable PhotoFabric:

I lucked out and found this on clearance for just $2.97 at a craft store, but it's also sold on Amazon.

(And for those who know me, the brand name here is merely a coincidence; I am unfortunately not connected in any way to this Blumenthal Craft empire.) 

This is such a simple method for transferring photography onto a fabric project, and I think it gives really great results:

I sewed a simple square cotton tote bag, cut my printed Sassy image out with some pinking shears and attached it to the tote with a little orange chain stitch. I live for chain stitch, so here's a little chain stitch porn for you:

But I didn't just give T an empty tote! Stay tuned for details about the handcrafted goodies that were inside...

Sassy

It's been awhile since we've had a look at how handsome Sassy is, right? 


Here he is showing us his best side:

And his other best side:

These shots were actually taken shortly after returning from a check-up at the vet's office. This was our first visit to this office, and we are so thrilled to have found a really wonderful place filled with extremely caring and dedicated personnel. If you're in the Beacon, NY area, we can't recommend Hudson Highlands Veterinary Medical Group highly enough! 

Summer Sassy

It's finally cooler where we live today, but for the last week we have been in the middle of a scorching heat wave. It's times like this when I'm very glad that we give Sassy a short summer haircut each year. Here he is, lazing about under the ceiling fan before the heat broke:

Would you just look at this face?

Speaking of adorable creatures, I can't wait to show you the fantastic little fox that I stitched up last week! Photos coming soon...