QuiltPromoter Cats Gone Wild - Our local cat club was hosting the national convention for the American Cat Fanciers Association and decided to do a raffle. I offered to make a quilt for one of the prizes. This was displayed around the area and we raised $3,000. The cats are my drawings. It was a challenge to decide the layout and order of construction, since the cats overlay the sashings and border. Each of the cats has several pieces. I used all directional prints - mostly stripes - and cut legs, tails, etc on the bias, so you can see movement. I had hoped to make a commercial pattern of this quilt, but after doing all the alignment markings, deciding which piece went over what, etc., I have a whole new respect for pattern makers! It's a lot of work to design; let alone write instructions that will make sense to others. All of the work was completed on my home sewing machine with lots of fancy threads. The free motion quilting includes swirls, lettering, mice, cheese, cats, etc. - all self-designed to fit the space. Can you find the one block with a brave little mouse strolling amongst all those cats? Wish I'd have had the Photo Guy's suggestions before photographing!