Oh yes - bats!  As cats are in my black books at the moment I'll embrace that totally!

I use water soluble stabiliser as a default, but I haven't tried it on anything finer than a medium weight cotton (prewashed unless I am absolutely confident that it won't shrink). 

As I'm sure you realise, it's no good trying to just gently rinse away the stabiliser because if you don't wash it away completely you will get a starched effect.

I have no idea whether silk satin is likely to shrink - or to wash well.  Oh dear.     How frustrating not to have a sample to test.

This is one of the reasons that I love pdf patterns.   

I will definitely be doing it, but it will be later in the month (guests, work, other demands etc etc).  I will probably leave the eyes off though, because I am waging permanent war on three cats that haunt our fields and try to get to the bird feeders, so cat is a four letter word around here.    I also want it to go with the Jan and Feb blocks.

The first one - bizarrely - has mixed prices.  Some are per metre and some per fat quarter, but the fat quarters are not all quilting fabrics.  The jersey section has fat quarters for some fabrics and metres for others.  Oh, and you can't tell which is which until you look at the details page for each fabric - the thumbnails page implies that they are all fat quarters.

Weird.   

Bottom one for me too.   

It must be very exciting being on a boat with you!!