Scrappy Cat Catch Up

I didn't realize it had been five days since I posted last... it's been busy here... doctor appointment, power outage for about 14 hours and fitting sewing in where I could, including working on the current Vintage Tin block.

  Yesterday, while at the CalCo Quilt Guild Quilt Show, I hit their 'yard sale' and found some real treasures - including a white tiger panel with fabric to go with it ($6.00!!!)!!  I'm so excited; I've been wanting to make a white tiger quilt for my oldest grandson for years.  I'll need to go down to one of the local quilt shops to find some more fabrics to go with it so I'll be able to make it big enough.  I also bought another fabric kit for what looks like tools; it says there's a panel included - I haven't checked it out yet.  There was also a couple of motorcycle panels/fabrics that I picked up.. along with some misc. patterns - a couple Amy Bradley and one with a moose standing in a clearing.. think there was one more but I don't recall right off.
After the show, I stopped at The Marshall House Quilt Shop.  I was looking for Riley Blake fabric for a pixilated yellow rose quilt, but didn't find it and didn't feel like trying to match colors with my palette.  I found a cute panel that will be used for a future project ( secret for now) and then I went to the clearance section to see if I could find some fabric for the backing for the cat quilt.  I was looking for pink, but didn't see anything that I really liked -

found this, though and it will work for the backing.

Today, I finished the blocks for the cat crib quilt, stitched the blocks into rows and then the rows together... then added the borders.  The pattern calls for half circles in between the borders... ummm, not gonna happen - at least this time.

The backing is loaded onto the frame.. I pieced batting pieces together and then laid it on the backing and basted it down; then on the top went and basted that down as well.  Picked out thread colors - Glide Cream for the borders and backgrounds - not sure if I'm going to stitch over the cats or not, but if I do, I'm considering either a varigated pink/orange or a solid pink ( neither of which are Glide threads).
 I took two smallish pieces and sliced them up for binding... two strips bright pink and then one strip pale pink, two strips bright, etc.  These were the two largest of what's left (which isn't much) of the pinks I pulled out of my stash.  I think there's still a little bit left in the bin, but just small pieces of odds and ends.

I also thought I had a great idea on what to do with these...

they were a decoration in the basket of fat quarters that I won a few years ago when George Cicilliano (sp) and his wife came to give a lecture and teach a class for our guild ( I only attended the lecture).  I thought if they were 3/4" wide, I could sew them together and make a doll quilt for the Christmas Kiddies Program.  Thinking if I was really ambitious, I could sew them into three or four strips and then crosscut and make blocks.. well, by the third strip, I realized that they are not all the same size... some aren't even cut the same width... the third one was narrow at one end and maybe 3/4" at the other end... I think I'll just toss them; no reason for them to stay around collecting dust.  Just seems a shame :(.

Ok, bedtime....

TTYL