Amy's Sofa Quilt

 

I am embarrassed to say that Amy picked out these fabrics and I made the quilt top more than a year ago.  She wanted a log cabin, only scrappy.  In the mean time, she got rid of the old sofa and now has a new one.  Hopefully the colors still work.  It has been sitting patiently waiting for an open window of time to quilt it.  So, with Anson and Lorin's quilts done and the next one needing to be done in 6 weeks, I thought it a good time to get this one finished and outta here.  The quilt top was very pretty and I think I am getting the hang of this machine quilting thing.  I really did like the oak leaf and acorn border.

Here Kitty, Kitty

     Little girl's love animals.  It seems that they are either dog or cat people.  Lorin is a cat person.  She wanted cats on her 4-year old quilt.  This was a blast to make.  I really had a lot of fun.  The 4 blocks in the middle are Cat's Paws (sometimes called Bear Claw's -- but it's Lorin's quilt, so they are now Cat's Paws).  The applique cats were purchased in a die cut set and I love them.  The 2 cat's in the window blocks I got from the internet.  I sure hope she likes it!

     The sashings are strips from a fabric that had several different lines of cats -- on a wall, in the window, and in the garden.  I thought they added the right touch.  Of course, being a girlie girl, she wanted pink and purple.  How can you resist that?

     Although you can't see it here, the big purple border has alternating cats and "meow" quilted in it.