So, as I was saying before I rudely interupted myself, tonight was one of my scheduled sewing nights, and I planned to work on the 500 block quilt thing, but then I was distracted by this little fat girl:
and it occurred to me that all of the cat quilts I'd made two years ago were looking sadly... sad. It was a case of the cobbler's children, and I decided to rectify it. Immediately!
As you know, I've condemmed myself to using only my stash for quilts this summer, and as I've been working my way through it, I've been making more and more sraps. I've got plans for some of them (another string quilt, a friendship braid, a 12 patch), but I decided that some of my other scraps could be put to good use, specifically a small stack of scraps that I'd won in a giveaway several months ago.
(please ignore that stray thread, I thought I got them all before I took the photo. Dang!)
So I started cutting them into 1.5 by 4 inch strips, and began to arrange them in pleasing-to-me layouts, and once that was done, I sewed them up and even used up two partial bobbins that had red metallic thread in them for the quiltng - so the top is done in varigated red/blue/purple/yellow orange thread and the back is done in red metallic. Fancy for a cat, no?
Anyway - the end result was this:
I have four more blocks which I think will be incorporated into a red background later on, but this weekend, I shall work on my Doll Quilt Swap quilt because I finally bought the fabric. Yay!
Hope you're all doing well. The heat's finally broken here - and brought with it tornadoes and thunderstorms, and cooler weather to follow.
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Wow, you are a woman who is not afraid of color...that is awesome!!! You would love the Samoan fabrics...
ReplyDeleteGorgeous cat, great cat quilt! And you can sing, too?
ReplyDeleteI can't sing to save my soul.
I too am trying to use up all my scraps - it is amazing how much we accumulate isn't it. I love the bright yellow with all the color.
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Barb, when I was a kid, my love of colour was my poor mother's bane. She thought my taste in colours was "unseemly" and "lacked class" and that's stuck with my my whole life. I'm in my late 40's and I still think that when I wear anything but black, beige, grey or navy blue, I look "cheap". But in my quilts - I can let myself go as wild as I want to! (And I looked up a site that sells Samoan fabrics, and you're right. I DO love them!
ReplyDeleteThanks Millie. Yes, I do sing. At my age (my late 40's) my voice has come into its own (if we've taken care of them, our singing voices mature, one the benefits of age!) I've always loved singing, but I get a special joy out if now - I'm doing things vocally I wasn't capable of when I was younger and sometimes while I'm singing, I'm thinking incredulously "Did I just do that?"
Someday I hope to be that kind of quilter - in the meantime, pratice practice practice. And perhaps someday, I'll be as good as you!
Karen, I have bins and bins and BINS of scraps! Although I've only been quliting for just over a year, I've been sewing for 35 - I have a lot of scraps accumulated!
And thanks re the yellow - BSP loves this little cat quilt so much, a request has been put in for a full size. Apparently, it's the yellow that's the draw for BSP too!
I love your little quilt, especially the wonderful bright colours.
ReplyDeleteThanks also for your comment on the cut cloth. "What a frock" sounds like my sort of place.