Cat Quilt

Oh  my yes a rainy day,  two postings and another cat quilt!  This piece started out as
 a set of place mats using the bits & pieces of 'cat fabric'.
 I was scrap busting! Then along came a yard sale where several more pieces
of cat fabric jumped into my arms.

This is called 'Ode to Cats'.  I have yet to add some more to the cat silhouettes,

what more I have yet to decide.
 Recently, I was chatting about how quilts look when the sun is shining

 through them.  I love what happens. The quilting is not noticeable on most of the front,
 but on a plain portion of the back, the outline quilting shows up very nicely. This scrap
quilt took much longer then I thought it should but as I had no plan....just kept sewing, cuttingsewingcutting, and then I stopped. It needs a label. It's for sale.
Happy Wednesday,
gudrun

Cat Quilts

I made two cat quilts using a panel, this is the first. It is an Andover panel. I added borders, stitched in some cat and mouse silhouettes, a spider web, to cover a booboo (should I have confessed?)  a bit of embroidery and a few beads. It lives happily with my best buddy and her family of cats.

This is the second one, a bit different, used a log cabin block down the left side, more silhouettes not as much hand work. I gave it to my MIL.

This is the third cat quilt, also started with the same panel.

 I did not buy three of these panels, but someone was charmed with them, thought I did such a marvelous job with the first one he gifted me with a couple more.  

I cut the last one apart, lost the pot of flowers, &  had lots of fun. In the outer border I stitched silhouettes of cats, but later decided there was too much of that green, trimmed the border and cut the heads
and feet off a couple of the wee creatures. DUH.

I thought I had come to the end of my session of cat quilts so I use squares of cat material on the back. Apparently I am not done with cat quilts.  I have another one pieced.
It's not a panel, and I call it Ode to Willa.  Willa is where ever it is that wonderful cats go, when they leave us forever.  She stayed with us for 19 years, and left us a year ago.
gudrun