"Big Kitties"

 

Working with the collection "Big Kitties" is done.

The leftover fabric I cut up into 5" squares for Outreach

to make I Spy quilts with.

Since this is a neutral colored collection I felt it really needed

an infusion of color ... enter ... "Starlet".  When I requested

more of "Starlet" I was sent 2 packages of 10" squares plus

various sizes of yardage.  

I couldn't leave this feeling so plain so along the sides

 I added ric rack which I found on the free table.

This was a new pattern I had sitting in my 

"I want to make someday" stack.

The panel was cut and made into a wall hanging for 

a kids room.  I had a foam piece leftover from a 

previous project which was a perfect backing for

this hanging.  I'm still tossing around what I

want to do with this wall hanging.

It took me about 6 hours to complete this.  What was time

consuming was the embellishment - which is hard to

see in the picture.  From my days of needlepoint I added

something called 'fuzzy stuff' to the ears, outlined the

leaves with a silvery white thread, used a brown 

wood to accent the trunk of the trees, added red buttons

to the front of the 'big kitties', used a black shiny thread

to accent the lines around the face of the large cat, and

embellished the rays of the sun with thread and beads.

It was a lot of fun work.