Tommy thinks a mouse quilt would produce sweet dreams.

Polar bow tie.

Snail party.

Well, those seemingly nice cats from Mystic Quilter's blog have high tailed it out of here and taken the cranes with them, so to speak. I was left with the carnage. Bits of beak, cat hair and feathers. Not even enough for a crumb block.

This is how everything looked earlier. Call me naive, but I thought they were all getting along. However, in retrospect, the cranes do look a bit nervous. Tommy keeps repeating "I told you so!"

A bow-tie quilt top from the 1980's. I'm trying to figure if I should keep it small and finish it off simply, or grow it by adding new and different bow-ties, or fold it up and store it away for a few more decades.

Making all those cranes for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge paid off! I enticed two of the cats from Mystic Quilters' blog over to mine. I knew they wouldn't be able to resist the cranes. And I bet they haven't even been missed.

Meanwhile the sky was celebrating this morning because it was going to go above freezing here for the first time since last Monday.

Here's another old quilt I made in 1986, called "New Wave Bow-tie." It's my thirteenth finished quilt. I think this was about the last quilt I hand quilted. Also, it has a wool batting that had just become available commercially. When I was "working" at Crazy Ladies and Friends quilt store, a customer came in and was describing what she said was "The ugliest quilt ever made." And this was it! I laughed and said "I made that." Another complaint about this quilt was that all of the palm trees in the peach bow-ties are facing up.

 

And here's my other activity of the day besides shoveling snow. I used the Hoffman California purple angel fish (#3) as the backing to the Ocean Wave quilt I showed a few posts back. I was looking for the blue colorway for that fabric that I was convinced I still had. I found it in yellow (#1) and pink (#2). At the time these were considered shockingly bright. They were also called batiks except they are printed with fake crack lines that wax would make in a real batik fabric. 

I was certain #4 was the blue colorway except it has different fish. Then there is #6 which has angel fish, but in a different style and with two colors. And #5 is more of the color I remembered as the blue colorway, and although it is also in the same Hoffman California fabric line, the palm trees are definitely not angel fish.