One of my aunts visited England and brought me back a souvenir tea towel
with nine cats on it. It was cute, and I felt it deserved better than wiping
up spills, so I cut the cats out, appliqued them onto a plain light tan fabric
and made this quilt (if I find a photo of the front, you'll see embroidered
the names of various cats we've known). But before I could entirely finish,
hurricane Andrew hit South Florida. We were without electricity for a week,
during which time I hand bound the quilt. I was grateful that we hadn't lost
anything more than a tree and the contents of our refrigerator, so I inscribed
the quilt, 'Andrew spared us, Cats have 9 Lives, August 29, 1992. I found
the quilt and took photos of it today (Nov.17, 2003). In order to get enough
detail so you have a chance of reading the cats' names, I had to save it
as 172k and 88k, so I've put the two Cats Have
9-Lives
photos on a separate page.
This is a very simple quilt, made for a little boy's bed in May of 2000. I quilted all around the cars, and the boxes, but felt it didn't really need any more embellishment.
I gave this quilt to my mother in Christmas of 1990. The quilt block pattern
is Double Irish Chain, and adding the appliqued hearts made it an Irish
Hearts quilt.