Today I was in my quilting studio... walked out for a bit... walked back in -- and noticed several tiny black dots on the white and cream New York Beauty quilt draped over my frame. It almost looked like a small splatter of oil, and when I looked closer, I could see that the spots were very fresh, as the largest one was still spreading a wee bit.
What in the world??
I looked up to see what could possibly be overhead that could have splattered down on it --- and lo and behold, there on the fan/light pull chain lurked a big ol' fat squash bug!
AAArrrrrrgggghhhh, errrrggg, aaaccchhh.
You can't just smack those things; they'll stink up an entire room. So I grabbed a flyswatter, put it right next to him, slid it up the chain -- and the squash bug, as expected, stepped onto the flyswatter. I gave him an expense-paid trip to The Great Outdoors.
Next, I found the stain-remover pen that my brother gave me, and dabbed all the spots. That removed the worst of them, but not entirely; so I trotted downstairs for a white cloth, dampened it with hot water, and got some ivory bar soap. The spots were gone in short order, thankfully.
Horrid ol' squash bug! Now I hate them for more than just their obnoxious stench.
That done, I got back to cutting those odd-sized triangles for border #2. The first mitered border is on the NYB quilt, all the pieces for the next border are cut, and one side of border #2 is put together. Here's the pieced border (in picture #2, it's folded so you can see two rows) and one of the mitered corners:
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