My furry four legged grandchildren left today. It's going to be quieter, cleaner, more relaxing lonely without them. But I got my design floor back!
I'm not sure what Debbie was going to do with these cats and they didn't come with any additional fabric which would have helped me think of a design. In the end I kept it fairly simple and raided my stash for plain homespun.
I needed to make circles and this bowl was the perfect size. The trouble with it is that I couldn't see through the bowl so I marked the quarters with masking tape.
Then when I put it on the fabric I wanted to mark the lines on the masking tape matched up with the quarter marked creases on my block and I managed to centre the circle perfectly.
I cut a hole 1/4 inch smaller than the marked circle and made small slits all around it before pressing on the marked circle line. Ta da! A perfect hole in the fabric.
I laid it out to check out the arrangement and then stitched the holes to the cat circles just along the very edge of the hole. That sounds more confusing to read than it was to do.
I stitched it together and made binding.
I then used up all the pink rectangles from Debbie's box of rectangles to make this little pink and white quilt top. I have some purple strips I might use to do the same design.
I sewed most of the rest of the strips into pairs.
The box is almost empty! There's the purple strips I was just talking about, some strips not quite the right size and some batiks. I'm not sure what to do with the batiks. They might end up in my stash. I haven't decided what to do with the paired strips yet but I don't really want to make another staggered brick quilt so watch this space!
