What is it if you take a Drunkard's Path block and split it in two: a double drunkard?

And then if you have two different curve patches it becomes a Windmill.

And if you make the Windmill quilt too large to easily photograph...over 80X80 inches...then I think it qualifies as Fighting Windmills drunk. This is another quilt by my grandmother (who didn't drink). And as a side note, she named her special quilting machine Fingers.

I'm crashing Vicki W.'s Drunkard's Path party and so should you!

If you find yourself looking around for a new cat crush, try checking out Smitty at Cat Patches who is blogging today about how he does all that he does.

The back (or evil side) of the I-spy quilt is finished. I loved the tilted I-spy block when I saw it as the header on the QuiltNCards blog. My next step will be to figure out how to bring the two sides together.

Here's a close up.

Last week I was tagged by Cathy, the prolific, whimsical, wonderful master of prints at Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting to join the world blog tour. Having been a researcher/analyst for almost my whole life, I immediately wondered who started this whole thing. As Tommy Cat would often remind me, you can't retire from being a buzzkill.

I backtracked through quilt blogs, craft blogs, domestic goddesses and into the flaky land of writer blogs where I hit dead ends due to deleted entries. But then I found this wonderful post that shows a search back to the origin. My next question was...BUT WHERE ARE THE CATS? This is the Internet after all.

Therefore I have enlisted three Internet professionals for this blog tour:

Smitty, that handsome hunk of man cat, at the blog Cat Patches.

Lucy, quilting assistant extraordinaire and Tommy Cat's major cat crush, at the blog Debra Harry Quilts (aka quilting artist).

and Squeaky, the colorful networking maven and hostess at Feline Fridays, at the blog Sarah did it!

And now I'm supposed to answer some questions that boil down to why do I make the quilts I do and what is my process?

My one word answer is Vicki W at Field Trips in Fiber. In 2011, Vicki sponsored a creative journal challenge and I made 52 small fused 8X11 inch quilts like the one above (which Tommy referred to as my self-portrait because of the striking resemblance).

Then Vicki encouraged making QOVs.

Then fractured quilts.

Then she had us clean our sewing rooms and give tours. You can read more about it here. Tommy wrote a rebuttal to my post here.

Then Vicki sponsored prizes at the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge and I started making sweet peaceful origami cranes that attracted cats from Mystic Quilter's blog in New Zealand.

And because all that wasn't enough, Vicki sponsored the Half Square Triangle (HSTerical) Quilt along.

Then Mystic Quilter's cats started to have kittens and now my sewing room is in shambles. Finally,  Vicki has started a new quilt along but I'm reluctant to join because I'm terrified of sending kittens down a Drunkard's Path.

And that pretty much sums up my style and process.

Oh dear! Brown kittens? Who has ever heard of such a thing? But apparently brown to black are the colors for the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge for October.  And I guess October is the spooky month, and these kittens are definitely spooky because the other kittens won't play with them and the giant mice won't even eat them. I felt so sorry for the kittens I named each one, starting at the top left: Tiger, Kitty, Teddy, Cupcake, Barkley, Chex, Curley and Moose.

And last month I tried to ship the kittens off to New Zealand and the post office returned them as too dangerous to ship. A postal worker was tipped off by all the foul language coming from the box. In any case, when I got the box back there was a new litter of kittens predominantly in the strange coloring of black and white.

I have no idea how it got to be Friday already. Today is the first day of Vicki W.'s Drunkard Path Quilt along. The best I can do is show you a photo of my grandmother's suspension bridge quilt. It may be very hard to tell because the yellow fabric has faded to beige and the white has faded to beige. This is also one of the only areas where the batting hasn't worn through.

I think this is another quilt that my father had with him during his college days. And it may be responsible for him becoming a civil engineer. In any case, I am thinking that I would like to try making one.

I made four new I-spy blocks for the "evil" side. Shown here is the chex mix and the hostess cupcake fabrics that I bought yesterday.

I also took some time to fiddle with the block placement. I think this will be how I sew the blocks together unless I change my mind.