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Cat Quilts Revisited

December 5, 2021 1 Comment

The above quilt was made by my friend Karen and I purchased it at our guild’s fundraising auction. I love the cat!

In response to my recent post about cat quilts I received this photograph from Nancy Wisniewski:

Here’s her story:

“This cat quilt was made for a very special person who recently passed away.  Her daughter now has it.  I will always remember our conversations about her cat quilt and how it kept her warm.”

So sweet. Then I got an email from Nancy Jenks:

“I was challenged by my Quilt Guild in Winona MN to make a quilt “something that I have always wanted to do but…..” So I made an Attic Window quilt with kitties from a panel I had purchased years ago. The quilt also went to the local hospital as a baby blanket. The second picture is my cat’s “appreciation” of my skills.”

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Too funny! Thanks to both Nancys for sending me photographs of these fun quilts. I’m so grateful to have the stories to go with them. It makes them even more special 😊.

Then Jan Hartwig sent me this in an email:

“Attached is a copy of a wall hanging I made in memory of my cat Ashley who was harmed by a former boyfriend and I had to put her down. It’s now hanging in my son’s home as Ashley was his before he went off to college.”

What a lovely tribute to a treasured companion! Thanks Jan!

My friend Laura is a quilter, quilt instructor and cat fanatic, and she’s made a number of cat quilts. I felt sure you’d like to see them. This is Abner. He was made with Barbara Beasley’s techniques. Laura told me she tried to make it into a quilt, but there was so much fusible web in it that it was hard to stitch through, so she decided to tear it apart and decoupage it onto canvas, with gloss varnish over the top. A very creative solution to her problem!

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I love her choice of background fabric ~ and those eyes!

After sending me the photo of Abner and his story, she sent this:

“I went to bed thinking about making an art quilts.  This was many years ago after I took one of my first art quilt classes with you. I woke up at midnight with this image in my head. The cat with flowers. I quickly got up and drew it on paper so I wouldn’t forget by the morning.  Well, morning came and I rushed downstairs to make this cat into a quilt.  I made a pattern and used fusible web to construct her.  I had her finished by the end of the day.  And now I have patterns of her and her mate, a dog named Dexter.”

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Adorable. To learn more about Laura and her quilts click here.

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  1. Mary Wedor says

    December 26, 2021 at 10:24 am

    Thanks for sharing- it is more meaningful with the stories.

    All beautiful works of art!

    Can’t wait to make one of our dogs.
    Mary

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