Purple Scrappy Cats – 2002

I love cats and wanted to make a cat quilt.  I had seen some quilts of cats in a row back to back and face to face but couldn’t find a pattern.  Finally, I found one in a quilt magazine . I had a pretty purple floral fabric that I was itching to use, so I decided to pull the colors from that for my cats.

And that’s how Purple Scrappy Cats came to be.  It was fun to piece but a little tricky.  This quilt is machine quilted.  The tails and nose and mouth are quilted on the cats which also helps to hold the layers together.  I quilted a meander in the background and a larger meander in the border.  I had plenty of fabric left over so decided to use it for the backing.

After doing the quilting, I realized that print fabrics hide a multitude of machine quilting “sins”.  I could see everything I did wrong on the solid fabric but they disappeared in the print fabric.