Cats -- Max & Friends

Max & Friends— just finished and presented to our friends. They are big cat lovers and for most of the 19 years that we have lived across the street, they had a white bob tail cat named Max. Max terrorized the dogs. His was his own cat and quite a character. He died recently. There are too many other cats to memorialize individually but Max stands out.

The 34x34 inch wall hanging was designed in EQ8 and uses paper-pieced cat silhouette designs by Janeen van Niekerk https://quiltartdesigns.blogspot.com/ (purchased on EQ8 store) and slightly modified to bob Max’s tail. Janeen does amazing designs.

The challenge was to make the whole quilt with stuff from my stash. Cat bodies are grunge layer cake squares and the backgrounds are shot cotton fat quarters (I should have starched more heavily — the shot cottons were thin and stretchy). I even had enough of the cat names fabric for the backing.
Quilt batting is wool. I spray basted. I used a lot of different threads for ditching and background quilting and used up most of the fabric remnants testing threads and patterns.

The label was mocked up in PowerPoint and traced onto the label fabric with a fine tip stylus and tsukineko ink and a light box. The binding was machine finished with my trademark couched Perl cotton.

This was fun to make. It took a while (mostly because Of my schedule) but there was no deadline and I savored every stitch.

If you have been, thanks for stoppng by.
Susan