Hi folks! In case you didn't know this about me, I am a quilter too.
Well, maybe I'm not so great at basting, but I did remind her that this quilt needed some batting. What would she do without me?
PS Pet hair on quilts is a design element.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
The Bruno Chronicles - I am A Giant Basting Pin
Guest Blogger: Bruno
Hi folks! In case you didn't know this about me, I am a quilter too.
Jacquie really couldn't do any of this without me.
Don't I make a great giant basting pin?
Well, maybe I'm not so great at basting, but I did remind her that this quilt needed some batting. What would she do without me?
PS Pet hair on quilts is a design element.
Hi folks! In case you didn't know this about me, I am a quilter too.
Well, maybe I'm not so great at basting, but I did remind her that this quilt needed some batting. What would she do without me?
PS Pet hair on quilts is a design element.
I loe your giant basting pin. I think he is so cute and obviously very helpful.
ReplyDeletePS. Love the colors in the quilt.
I love Bruno :) And I hear you on the hair too. There is so much in the batting that we could deconstruct a quilt if we needed to clone Jada and get plenty of DNA!
ReplyDeleteAwwww, we couldn't do it without our helpers, could we : ). What a cutie!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to hear Bruno WAS a basting pin and didn't get stuck by one. I loved your p.s. message so much that I quoted you on my MQG fb wall. Pet hair (everywhere) is the small price we pay for all that love and joy our pets give us!
ReplyDeleteWhat is that tan color in there? Love that doggie of yours.
ReplyDeletePet hair a design element..I will keep that one in mind;)
Bruno is a beautiful basting pin! and pet hair is a must! (I've got 3 cats).
ReplyDeleteha! thank gave me a big chuckle... My dogs do the same thing... You were on my mind yesterday as I handed out SOOOO MANY of your quilts at the BASICS quilt event yesterday... THANK YOU!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love Bruno! I have 2 big wimmer and my Xena is a blue one (black) and when I look at Bruno I can see my Xena! Keep posting about him... he makes me smile!
ReplyDeleteoh bruno! what would your momma do without you! ;)
ReplyDelete(((o:
ReplyDeleteWho could resist that face!
ReplyDeletewhat a beautiful beast and well photographed too! hooray for quilt dogs!
ReplyDeleteLOL. My lab Max would lay on a face cloth if I dropped it! They are so funny!
ReplyDeleteYou have never had dog hair unless you have had a couple of three Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs in the room for 3 seconds. Bonnie Doon would lay upside down on my maroon carpet and rub her back. When she got up, there would be a dog angel in tawny grey undercoat!
glen: doggy bones to Bruno!
Bruno, my dog Penny is the same way...a giant basting pin. Luckily she has learned to walk off the quilt gentle so that she doesn't disturb it too much. :)
ReplyDeleteManny, our Boston Terrier, believes that no quilt is complete without a bit of Manny hair on it. He sets himself in the middle of them all. Bruno, you're doing a great job helping Jacquie out!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute baby! Labs are so wonderful...miss my old lab even more looking at that wonderful face.
ReplyDeleteI love it when Bruno guest blogs!
ReplyDeleteI love it when Bruno guest blogs! Too cute.
ReplyDeleteI had three of Bruno's tribe "helping" me baste last night. They were complaining to me that it would be easier if someone would come up with safety pins that didn't necessitate opposible thumbs. I was complaining to my husband that they, my dear dogs, were pulling the neatly taped-down back of the quilt off the floor, crumpling the smoothed out batting, and generally freaking me out.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how Bruno was doing! Glad he is helping out.
ReplyDeleteLOL Bruno is ADORABLE! I have a few helpers of my own 1 of my 3 cats and 1 of my 2 dogs always want to "help" when I'm quilting/sewing. I've gotten to where I put a chair beside me with the weiner dog's quilt (YES, I made him a quilt LOL) in it and put him there while I work. :D
ReplyDeleteOh this is so darned sweet! Gotta love that face. My quilt dog Moose- a huge 100lb Labradoodle is not only a giant basting pin, he is my favorite thread catcher as well. He insists on sleeping under my sewing table just next to my pedal when I sew. His lovely thick black curly hair seems to be the perfect magnet for all the clipped thread ends. Once after a busy sewing day my BF declared that he was rainbow thread dog- and that nickname has stuck. Gotta love the quilt dogs in all their glory, they remind us that it is supposed to be fun and we should have a little giggle from time to time amongst all the serious quilting we do.
ReplyDeleteYou are right Bruno...pet hair adds great texture! So nice to see your smiling face again.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a design wall because I sew in a room with dormers (is that the right words? I don't have a tall wall is what I mean). The white quilt I have on my floor right now is all covered in black lab hair. She is also convinced that spreading a blanket on the floor must be for her!
ReplyDeleteAlso, when I returned from an outing this morning I was informed that the 2-year-old got in there and there was dancing. Fortunately I'm at a point where it was easy to recreate!
I love when you post Bruno pix. I also have a large black dog who is a huge help in quilting!
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable face. Guess you might have to switch to making only black quilts!
ReplyDeleteMy cat also likes the basting part. Lucy likes to get btwn the top and the batting!
ReplyDeleteOh, I wish I designed and quilted like you. But today I found we at least have dog hair in common. lol.
ReplyDeleteSweet dog! Mine is my best friend.
ReplyDeleteBruno is too cute!
ReplyDeleteI love Bruno. How could you possibly ask that face to move? My German Shepherd Greta is the same - if there is a blanket near one of her people spread on the floor she is convinced it must be for her to lay on while she "guards" them.
ReplyDeletegood dog.
ReplyDeleteAdorable dog! He looks just like my grand-dog.
ReplyDeleteBruno is adorable! I'm glad to know that pet hair is a design element, because I certainly can't get rid of it around here (no matter how much vacuuming I do!)
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at this. My pets (two little dogs, one cat) will be asleep in another part of the house until I lay a project on the floor and boom! Three little furry bodies on it! Bruno's a doll.
ReplyDeleteI too quilt with a Craft Lab! He's oh so helpful, NOT! He likes to nonchalantly grab the end of binding I'm pressing and just walk away with it. So glad to see another big dog in a studio, I love everyone's cats, but a Lab is, well a Lab!
ReplyDeletePet hair is a design element! My new mantra. I <3 Bruno!!
ReplyDeleteI made a quilt for friends as their wedding present. Since my dogs are faithful sewing room companions, I told them it was sewn with love and dog hair.
ReplyDelete*SMILE* LOve your basting pin... :O)
ReplyDeleteMy Molly Monster have a lot to learn...that is all I can say!!
from the amount of time my cat spends on the ironing board, I think HE thinks he is an iron... these 2 should get together!
ReplyDeleteYour Building Bridges quilt is awesome, made even more special with the Bruno hair. With two black Lab housedogs, I quit fighting the hair and now embrace it. Your Bruno and our Shep could be twins...love those gray beards!
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