Cat Approved

 

I've spent almost all of Easter Sunday, from about 5:30 am, working on my Floral Fantasy quilt. Finished quilting all the blocks (99) and a bit over one quarter of the border. Tucked a casserole in the oven (it will soon be too hot to use the oven!) and am now collapsed on the couch watching The Amazing Race. Hopefully I can stay awake for Undercover Boss. If not, the DVR is set.

I'm on track for getting the quilt completely finished by next Sunday. Mizzy Paws has definitely adopted it as hers. She can snooze on it until I call "Bed! Bed!" and she'll come running to collect her spot on the pillow next to mine.

Wishing everyone a blessed Easter!

-- Joanna

And Your Cat May Hallucinate

Gracious, you'd think a computer expert (me) would be able to figure out this Blogger! But I didn't get to the new Blogger conversion in time. I won't go into what it took to get my account active again but I finally managed.

Mary Stori gave a workshop at the Tucson Quilters Guild on beading. While I've done a bit of jewelry creating, I've never really used beads on my quilts or done beading. I decided I would practice on this piece. Of course, I'd already put the backing on!

I decided to put a beaded border on using one of the border technique taught in the workshop. A little more beading here and there to accent foiled areas. Then I found a couple fish charms and added them.

This is a fun quilt that I really enjoyed creating. It used fusing, zig zag quilting, quilted words, BoNash, foiling, glitter and beading.

You can see more photos of this quilt on my Picasa Web Album:

http://picasaweb.google.com/shimmers411/ChallengeQuilts