Raccoons are excellent climbers. But they can’t climb up steel flashing, and they can’t jump vertically.
Cats are excellent jumpers. They simply jump up & in.
You could probably adapt the system butchers use: vertical strips of clear vinyl that slightly overlap. Like vertical blinds but more substantial.
It worked just fine. Nice job. It almost looks man cave-ish. Add an easy chair? Small fridge? TV? I’d never go back in the house.
This is my finished quilt that is hanging in the Omaha Quilter’s Guild annual show right now:
Beautiful!
Got any close-ups of the quilting?
it is still hanging at the show. I will get a close up when I get it back tomorrow. Meanwhile here is a picture of the quilting in progress:
Dude, that is stunning! I am stunned. 
This is the back:
and the front:
My ex’s aunt and grandmother were huge quilters. Entering them into competitions and all that. They were so excited when they finally bought their own quilter so they wouldn’t have to send them out to get that done. (Side note, that’s when I learned what ‘quilting’ actually means*). Unfortunately they never quite got up the nerve to try it out for themselves. They were too worried about breaking such an expensive machine. To the best of my knowledge, I don’t think they ever used it and I’m assuming it was sold after grandma died. Too bad, I was really excited to see it in action.
*For those that don’t know, my basic understanding is that ‘quilting’ is essentially that stitched pattern running across the top that keeps the whole thing together. It’s what @LH75 is doing in that picture a few posts up.
There’s at least one shop around here that has such a machine that you can rent time on, so you’re still doing it yourself rather than “sending it out”, but without having to buy the whole machine.
We rent time on a machine at a local fabric shop for $20.00 an hour. The machines are very expensive. Also, we do not have a space in our home large enough for one
3 day project to protect my rockers. 3 old rockers that are 28 to 50+ years old.
Cleaned them off and brought them down to the shop.
Sanded and tightened with wood glue.
Today I brought them to the garage after blowing out all the dirt from the garage. Put them on a drop cloth and proceeded to give each 2 coats of Teak Oil. Cost of project about $10 of teak oil leaving enough for another round in the future. Maybe $1 of sandpaper. Probably 5 hours work.
Clean, sand and then apply the Teak Oil.
Drying in the garage and now completing their drying back on the front porch.
The 2 smaller darker rockers were respectively my Mother’s and My Aunt’s/Grandmother’s chairs. The larger, light colored one I bought for my wife for our first child.
Sitting outside is a little rough on them, but that was 6 years of wear and hopefully the teak oil holds up better.
Kudos to you for not just “preserving” them. They’re meant to be sat on, and I’m sure your mother and grandmother would be sad to hear they were just in storage or something.
Nicely done!
Haven’t read thread - no idea if the following has been posted:
(Link for scale modelling thread from MPSIMS)
Cross-posted from Game Room:
(love doing this every June)