56 Cats

56 Cats was a quilt that I saw on the front of a magizine and just had to make. The picture showed it done in scrapy style but I like the color blue so I just had to make a blue cat quilt also where I thought that it would go needed a denim/blue quilt.

I made the quilt for my Aunt's Cottage. She has a fabulous quaint cottage about a block or two from Lake Michigan. In the cottage there is a casual living room with a big overstuffed denim sofa. As I was making this that is where I envisioned the quilt, people sitting enjoying the company of family and the firelight sunngled under a warm quilt. I hand quilted the latice work so it took a long time to get done.

She enjoyed the quilt so much and said that it was to pretty to use so he displays it proudly hanging on a wall. Not quite what I had envisioned but I am glad that she loves it so much.

Summertime for AHS

This is a quilt that I made for AHS to raise money for the staff funraiser.

I was on staff as a long term sub to fill a posistion that had opened after a person went on Maternity leave and decieded not to come back.

The fabrics were purchased during a central oregon shop hop with a good friend and fellow quilter. Two women driving through central oregon with a map of quilt stores and not a husband or daughter in site. The next purchasing trip I want to do is the coastal one. But due to the good friend having a baby boy about 6 months ago we have not done another shop hop, yet. Much to my husband's delight.

I have a tendency to over purchase the amount of fabric I might need for a quilt. So that was the first one. Then there was a baby quilt for one of the teachers who got pregnant. She was an english teacher and was having a baby girl. The theme of the nursery was bugs. So the butterflies fit right in.

I have a tradition that I do each year. At the then the end of the year, I make a quilt that most of my student from that year sign. Then when I retire, which is a LONG way off I will proudly have a quilt show with all the quilts with all the signatures displayed.

Then there was one for my current High School. But I dont have a picture of drunken dragonflies. And I still have a clear shoebox about 1/3 of the way full labeled "left over liberty."