Heather,
this turned out very nice and I could not help but think of "o gato no quadrado" in Portuguese!!!

cheers
Jeanine

I love your latest quilt, and double sided too - my favourite. I am surprised that your 12 yr old hasn't named it...

As for getting through thread faster - you are using twice as much with a machine anyway. But for quilting designs even though it is double sided, you just have to decide which is the dominant side that the quilting will be worked from and keep your fingers crossed (althought not whilst you are quilting, obviously ) that it will work out just fine on the other side. Or you put in much more planning for the designs to work out back to back. Personally I have gone with the 'fingers crossed' method, but also I had lots of small piecing on one side where the quilting doesn't really show, and large piecing on the other side and the quilting was worked out to enhance that side which worked out just fine.

How about 'Cat Scratch' - you can get scratches from swords as well as cats... a bit lame I know, better go back to the above suggestion of getting the owner to name it.

...and it needs a name!

-- front

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I'm thinking maybe "His Favorite Things" or something.

This quilt, front and back, was pretty much designed by my 12 yr old. He described what he wanted, showing me on-line photos of video game images as needed, and I converted his idea into an EQ7 design/layout, got his approval, and off I went. Working on quilting it now - just going to do ditch work across the diagonals of the front (the pinwheel blocks), but all the way across, both directions. That should be plenty, but if it looks skimpy at that point, I'll do one midway between each as well.

using gray thread; it's all I have in sufficient quantity at the moment! eek. Never imagined quilting would use so much thread -- or rather, the faster pace of machine piecing/quilting means I go through so much more thread in so much shorter a time!

I improv pieced the cat on the back, as none of my orange (scraps/stash) was wide enough -- I had several fat quarters, but the body is 28" wide. Oops. Fatter than a fat quarter. So I cut them all up and pieced them all back together and improved the whole cat

I have to say, these collaborative efforts between me & my boys are so very fun. Although, I think I will not do a double-sided quilt again any time soon. Worrying about how quilting the front will look across the image on the back.....eek. Luckily the gray thread blends pretty well -- small stitches, and the dark green back is flannel, so it just sort of nestles down in there. Whew!

anyone have name ideas? The front is video game images/symbols; the sword is hand drawn and then appliqued on. The back is a cat from his favorite book, and the frame around the cat is various cat fabrics - his favorite animal. And orange his favorite color.

Appreciate any other helpful comments as well