The large mice have taken their revenge. They added new segments to the improv quilt and retitled it "Cats Pushing Up Tulips." I hope the Kaffe cats aren't missed too much. Tommy thinks this is just gratuitous violence masquerading as bad art. He also thinks it's to blame for the small earthquake that just rattled Central Virginia.

I came home today to find this on the design wall. Tommy says its "Improv with fish and crane" inspired by the new cat. Remind me to lock up my rotary cutter when I leave the house.

Uh-oh! Tommy caught a new cat sneaking around in the sewing room!

Tommy is not amused! He wants to know if anyone is going to claim this cat. Anyone? Anyone? Mystic quilter?

Despite last week's influx of green kittens, a flock of green origami cranes have arrived in the sewing room. They arrived just in time to participate in the Rainbow scrappy challenge.

Here's the whole flock.

My cat Tommy has decided to participate by posing in front of a window with spring's green on display in the background.

Here's my progress on the Ocean Waves quilt. I am putting it together with two blocks...one all HSTs and the other is the large green square tipped on the diagonal with corners added. I spent some time this week cutting more batik fabric to add to this quilt...making more HSTs (not with bias strips!) and triangles for the corners. And this week I don't know whether I'm linking to Vicki W.'s HSTeria quilt along or her wet wood drag-a-thon.

I can finally move forward. I finished slicing the half-square triangles from the 18 bias strip panels. This is not a method I would ever recommend. I did pull some more fabric to add to the ocean waves quilt because I don't think this will be enough. I will also need some triangles, but I can pull them from this project's debris field.

Here's the final photograph of the Quilt of Valor that I finally finished and sent off on Friday. For this quilt I used the pattern Sliced from Amy Ellis' Modern Neutrals book, although I adapted it to make a rectangular quilt instead of a square.