Now all we have to do is sew this to this block here and then attach it to our body. And this is going to make our kitty head. And we’re going to sew a quarter of an inch right down there. You know if we do it this way it’s not going to work. So we’re going to make sure when we put this, attach this block to this that our ears are going up the right direction. I’m going to trim this one off and iron that back.Īlright so now we want to make sure that this looks like ears. I think I really just had to slow down to get that, to get that so it didn’t grab in there. It’s just a little square of fabric that you start and stop on. A lot of people use those little things called leaders and enders that keeps that from happening. They just grab that fabric and take it down in there with them. Sometimes our sewing machines just do that. This is such a cute little, little quilt, whoops. Now the second ear, we’re going to do the same thing with. Alright so here’s my first ear right here. But we’re going, we’re going to, I’m going to do it this way because I get angley, you know I get things all out of whack angley so I have to keep, keep my brain going in the right direction. And I guess it really doesn’t matter because you guess you could just flip it over. So this, we’re going to sew this from the outside in like this. And you have to make sure that your ears are going to right way. We’re going to put those on each side of this. So our ears are going to be these 2 ½ inch squares that we cut out of the printed fabric. And we’re going to attach that to our 2 ½ inch strip but first we have to do the ears. Now for the head we’re going to take our three by five inch strip. And then we’re just going to roll this back. So we have to make that back of him like that. And that’s going to make the tail part of our kitty. And we’re going to sew right across there. We’re going to put it up in the top right corner. And I’m just going to iron this so I get a little sew line. We’re going to fold, fold our little strip or iron it or draw the line or whatever you want and so that we have a little sew line. So first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to take this 2 ½ inch square and we are going to put that on the body of the cat. And so that’s for each block you’re going to need that. And then I need one five by 2 ½ inch rectangle and one 2 ½ inch square. And so I need one five inch square like this. Now out of your background you’re going to cut a, I just cut a five inch strip and something and cut my pieces out of that. I cut a 2 ½ inch strip and cut that in half and it gives me two squares. So we’re going to cut these 2 ½ inch squares. And then for our ears we need two 2 ½ inch squares. And that’s going to be, that’s going to be our head up here. Out of the next piece you’re going to cut a three inch piece. That’s just our little waste right there. So we’re just going to take that off right here. Alright so on one of the five by ten inch rectangles you’re going to cut a half an inch off. Out of one, one of these five by ten inch rectangles, rectangles, look I said rec-tails, just like it’s already a cat. I’m just going to do one at a time to show you. You’re going to probably want to do this to your whole pack. Now we’re going to put these in two separate piles. So we’re going to take our ruler and lay it right along the edge of our square and cut it right in half. And we’re going to cut it directly in half. We’re going to start with this button block though. And it’s almost like which one do we pick. Ok so to make this quilt we’re going to take one of our ten inch squares. And I thought sewing and cats was just the perfect combination. Now the fabric we used is called Sew! Sew! And every Sew, it’s S E W with an exclamation point and it’s by Benartex for Kanvas Studios. And the quilt is going to end up being 68 by 77. Our border out here, this is a 5 ½ inch border. And that is, for that we need a half a yard. On our darker background right here, because some of our blocks didn’t pop with the white, we decided to throw in a different background. The yardage also includes this first border and that’s a yard and a half. Now we again, we have a light background and that’s this white here. And you’re going to need some background fabric. To make this quilt, what you’re going to need is one packet of ten inch squares. Yes after the princess and she thinks she is a princess. And so I just thought we’d have fun doing this cat quilt. Isn’t that bizarre? Everytime I lay a quilt out on the floor, guess what happens? The pets, they want to sit right in the middle of it. I get so much mail from quilts with a cat sitting on it. And we have to take that into consideration. They’re, they’re just a little big obstinate. Some of them are facing each other, and some are away. Some of them have light backgrounds, some of them have dark. Let’s take a look at this fun quilt behind me. And I am so excited about today’s project.
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