Happy Cat Quilt
Posted on: 5/27/2005
This is a double bed quilt which I made for my best friend in Hong Kong. I have actually promised her to make this a long time ago but I also have a feeling that it would be better to wait until her birthday then the gift would be more memorable. In order to have more time for preparation so I have communicated with her more than 1 months ago and got the idea from her which I really didn't expect that she didn't like flower and would prefer to have cat, dog or little house as the motifs on the quilt (but if I think of her career then I would not be surprised because she is a kindergarden teacher). This quilt pattern came from 4 issues of Cotton Friend in Year 2004 which I intend to make for long time already so this time the theme can meet her requirement that's really even nicer. As most of the fabrics available at the store and the ones I collected are all bright and colorful so to me the most difficult part is to work on the color scheme which can fit in my friend's requirement i.e. dark tone color. I've finally chosen red, brown as the main color scheme and yellow to add some spice to the quilt. I do hope that she won't mind of my choice.
I have used hand applique, stuffing and free motion machine quilting on this quilt. I couldn't think of just the hand applique part have took me 3 more weeks already so I didn't have time to do as I have planned i.e. to add on the piecing house border. I have used the yellow border instead.
At last I have finished the quilt just in time to meet the schedule to be sent by courier to Hong Kong that arrived on her birthday. As it's her birthday of course she should be out. After few attempts, the package finally arrived at her hands almost a week later. I have just received an email from her said that she like the color I have chosen and the quilt as well. Wooshh..... I feel happy and much relieve now .
This time are my sons don't want to let go of this quilt but at last he realized that it have to be sent out then he sai
| About me |
| In year 2001, I discovered that |
| there was a quilting TV Show |
| called "Simply Quilt" in HGTV |
| channel that inspired me to start |
| quilting. |
| It was not so easy in the process |
| of self learning but later I |
| discovered a magazine called |
| "Quiltmaker" which has a lot of |
| patterns that I can use from it. |
| At the year end of 2003, I |
| started to self-learning Chinese |
| typing then I discovered from |
| the internet that there was a |
| Taiwan quilting group called |
| "Happy Quilting Group" which |
| was organized by a lady |
| named May. |
| After joining the group then I |
| have made some small projects |
| i.e. cup, doll and tool bag etc. |