IN THE MEANTIME.......

So, I told myself I was going to start blogging  again.  Yesterday was that start!  

Yup! Gonna just do it;  things I'm making, things I'm planning on making, fun stuff, quilting ideas, sharing things other people are making, maybe some Pinterest stuff or feature different shops from Etsy......and on...and on...


In the meantime.........

Thought I'd share a fun quilt  I made several years ago and have it hanging up in my living room again.   Can't remember if I've ever shown it on my blog, but "In the Meantime"........we get to look at it again.    It is one of my most favs and called Kitty City.  Most of you know I'm a cat person and have 3 inside cats....so this always brings a smile to me when I hang it up again.

You can't see all of it, 'cause I didn't take the time to put the rod through the hanging sleeve on the back.  It is 12 blocks, not 9.  Here's a couple more close ups of some of my fav blocks in it.

I love the look on Chef cat........it's like me when I'm planning what to eat for my supper...lol

There are never any mistakes in quilting.....only opportunities for tapping into our creativeness. 

Miss Kitty Carmen Miranda's block was accidently cut when I was trimming the quilting threads.  So, after crying and being upset, I just added the fruit falling and fruit below the block to cover up the cut snip in the border.  Afterall, Carmen Miranda was always dancing and singing (if you've never heard of her do a Google search) and the fruit from her hat could fall off quite easily.

This prompted me to add a few more touches to some of the blocks; the catfish bowl in the Chef's block, the dogs & fire hydrant in the Firechief block, the bird's nest in the Birdwatcher block.  Mmmmm!  There's never any mistakes in quilting......only opportunities.

Another close up of one of my favs.....

Since Miss Kitty USA was the celebrity of Kitty City, I quilted her block with metallic sparkling thread.  Even though you can't see them all close up, each cat block was quilted differently....words....clouds...fire hoses...skull & crossbones, etc.........



Stay tuned for more fun things tomorrow and I'll be having a Free Giveaway soon.


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My Entry Pets on Quilts 2011 Contest

If you  are a follower of my blog, you know that I'm a cat lover, cat(s) owner, feral cat colony manager.  So, it was only natural that I wanted to enter Sew Cal Gal's 2011 Pets on Quilts Contest. 

 This is Roxie ....and oh, how she loves to eat.  She's sneaky too....and I hear her crunching in the night when I leave food in her bowl.  I raised her by bottle after her Mama abandoned her at 4 days old.  This particular quilt was made by my daughter as a gift to me after we had been to the International Quilt  Show in Houston.   It says "We went to the quilt show and all we got was everything!"

Here's a couple close ups of the details.....beads on the shoes, ribbon, threads, ribbons, buttons for the eyes....on the 3 Cats who went shopping at the Quilt Show.

Roxie was posing so well for me, I got another Kitty Quilt for her to "inspect".  You do know she's one of my "quilt supervisors", don't you?

This one is called Beach Kitties and I used it for a quilt class in applique that I was teaching. 

I hope you can see the fabric in the background of these blocks, as it's fish underwater. 

My other two cats, Braveheart (the KING)  and his sister, Princess, were getting jealous of all the attention Roxie was getting during our photo session, so here's  Kitty City.  I think this is my favorite quilt of all time that I've made, except for my King Size 1000 Pyramids quilt.

Each block depicts a different cat in a different profession; artist, beauty pageant winner, fireman, Dr., bird watcher, Sheriff, Chef, Pirate, Carmen Miranda, Amelia Earhart, etc.  I bordered it with dimensional prairie points and cat paw fabrics.

Sorry, they're a bit blurry 'cause I was paying attention to the cats....not on my picture taking.  Besides, I have to hurry and get this blog post finished to have time to enter it in Sew Cal Gal's contest...yikes! 

Here's a few close up  pictures of the Kitty City blocks.

Miss Kitty USA

Pierre' the Chef

The Sheriff.



The Bird Watcher

If I haven't bored you senseless .......YET, .....there's more to this Kitty City quilt than meets the eye. 

Did you notice the fruit bowl in the Carmen Miranda block? 

Well, after I was finished with all the detailed quilting (you can see some of the different background quilting in the close up photos) when I was trimming some threads, I cut a small 'v' shaped  hole in the sashing on the bottom of that block.   I was just heartsick, 'cause I was entering it in a Quilt Show that next week. 

I called my sister, told her what happened, and was almost in tears.  She came right over (we live about 1/2 block from each other) and took a look at it, and said......"well, looks like Carmen's fruit bowl spilled some fruit"   She told me to think "outside the box" and I did. 

The fruit appliques falling from her hat and underneath the block were added to cover up the small hole. 

 I added a fish bowl to the Chef's block, a bird's nest to the Bird Watcher.....etc., and what started out as a BIG boo boo, ended up  adding more interest and uniqueness to my Kitty City Quilt.

I was even more pleased when it won a 2nd place ribbon in the Quilt Show.

If I had a glass of wine, I'd  toast to everyone reading this blog....."Here's to quilting, here's to our beloved pets, and here's to winning a prize in the contest, but most of all ....here's to Sew Cal Gal for doing such a great job organizing this"! 

When it's time to vote on

Sew Cal Gal's blog, I hope you'll vote for me.  Thanks.

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