St. Paddy’s Day Hats with some Cutting Instructions

I finished a few gifts with my leprechan hat pattern I created.  This could also be a pilgrim hat for Thanksgiving and could probably alter it into a witch hat too for Halloween.

Large pillow 16” square pillow and cover

 The smaller pillow is 10 x 17”

This is the lumbar pillow that I first made a cover for with three cats on it and last Christmas made one with Christmas trees.

Made with the tiny hat size

Table topper

Made with the 8" hat size

Four Sizes

Large 14" x 14 1/2; Medium 10 3/4"; Small 7 1/2 x 8"; Tiny 5 5/8 x 6".  I like the square dimension better. 

On the tiny one, I just used a 1 5/8" gold square, but below I put instrustions to make it like the others since that is cuter.

Here you can see how to sew the pieces together.  I sewed the belt part first, then belt part to the top.  Then that section to the background sides and then sew on the brim to the bottom.

 Be aware on the cutting instructions that they haven't been tested so do your own pattern test.  (Let me know if you find errors, if possible)

Keep in mind that depending on the project, you may want to also add top and bottom borders.  In case you want to make your blocks square here are cutting instructions for that, except not tested yet.

On this one I changed the measurements so the hat block would come out square.

The 6" size may definately have an error?

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Christmas Sewing

These scrappy runners turned out cute to give the neighbors for Christmas

I made some last minute small runners to give as Christmas gifts to neighbors, for Christmas Eve last year.

This is a Pillow Cover to fit the pillow I made with an Acorn Pillow Cover, that I gave to Karen a few years ago.

Acorn Pillow Cover

I made some labels to print out on fabric to place on the gifts.

Christmas Tree Pillow Cover.  Fits the pillow I made for the Fall Cats Sitting on Pillows Pillow Cover

Fall Cats Pillow

I made this long ago and may duplicate  to some extent with scraps below.

Scraps I've had around forever.  May finally become a topper similar to one I made long ago, some day.

This was from the fun mystery quilt along from the Fat Quarter Shop last year

Oops, sewn wrong, but picked out and corrected later!

 

More Pillows and some scrappy triangles

More pillows!

I saw a darling LOVE pillow made by MochaWildChild here and just had to make one too.

She found the free pattern by Kelbysews here.

Here it is before being sewn into the pillow cover.

I like sewing my own pillows and then I don't have to worry about what size I make the pillow cover.    This holly fabric came in handy to make a pillow form since I wasn't crazy about it.

Two buttons on the back match the "L" and the "V"

 Quite a while back, I was making some pink and white quilt blocks for my sister because she loves pink and she loves cats.  

The tessellating design got the better of me and I stalled on production and couldn't get back to it.  I decided to make pillows instead (I have one more block to make into another pillow cover)

Here it is flipped around.  (sorry for the blurred picture)

Here you can see the lovely model who posed for the embroidered little cat faces.  She has claimed the pillow top and production is again stalled.

She seems pretty attached to this project.

Here's the light pink pillow to go inside the tessellating cats pillow cover.

Here's the back of the pillow cover.

A little pile of HST's of varying sizes.  I spent a little time sewing, pressing, trimming and/or just stacking and packaging up by size.

  I can't seem to just throw away these little triangle scraps and it's a pain except when I get them somewhat sorted and organized and hopefully sometime in the future they will be part of something wonderful!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linking up with Connie at Freemotion by the River,  Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation, and Crazy Mom Quilts.

Scrappy Cats for Fall

From a pattern called Cat Nap for free on All People Quilt.  

I changed it a little by making their bodies 1 inch longer, so if you do that, you have to make the background square by their heads 3 1/2 x 4 1/2"

I made the "quilt" they are laying on with 2 7/8" squares

  

You can see the pillow back laying on the pillow that I made for this project. The pillow is made with a piece of fabric 22 1/2 x 24”. Finished pillow is 11 x 23 1/2”

I'm going to sew some tiny buttons on for eyes and buy some bells to sew on their collars

Happy Fall!

Linking to Needle & Thread Thursday, Put Your Foot Down, Peacock Party, Whoop Whoop Party, Finished or Not  Friday, Off the Wall Friday, Beauty Pageant; Two Chicks and a Mom
 

Cozy Catz Quilt Along

If you know a cat lover, I hope you'll quilt along with me this year to make Cozy Catz (cats on quilted cushions).  These can be made in holiday colors or favorite colors.  There will be at least 6 different Cozy Catz blocks.  Hope you will join me!  Let me know if you complete a block so I can feature it in a future Cozy Catz Post!

Valentine Cozy Cat is the first block.

Block is 14 1/4 x 16 1/2 Tutorial is below

Christmas Cozy Kitten is Block Two of the series

Tutorial is here.

Valentine Cozy Cat Cutting Instructions

Cut the following pieces:
From cat fabric
Ears 2 7/8" square, cut in half diagonally
Face 5 1/2" square
Lower body 2 1/2 x 6 1/2"
Tail 2 1/2 x 3 1/2"
Haunch 3 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Right neck piece 1 1/2" square
(2) 2" squares for half square triangles for upper heart
3 7/8" square cut diagonally to border the lower heart

From background
Left upper border 3 1/2 x 11 1/2"
Left lower border 3 1/2 x 1 1/2" not shown
Right lower border  2 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Upper right background 6 1/2" square
Tail rounding pieces 1 7/8" squ. and 2 7/8" square.  Cut each square diagonally once (need only one of each size triangle)
Back of ears 2 1/2 x 5 1/2"
To round the haunch 3 7/8" square cut diagonally once (need only one triangle)
Left and right cushion border 2 1/2" squares (2) (not shown)
Four 1" squares to round the cushion (not shown)

Heart block.  

(5) 2" red squares (2 for HSTs and 3 cut diagonally -- see picture below)

1 1/2 x 6" strips of reds,

Constructing the heart block  (there are some instuctions on the cutting diagram above or use the following instructions)

Sew 2 sets of the 1 1/2" strips together, leaving one alone.

Make 4 half square triangles (HSTs) by drawing a diagonal line along the 2 red 2" squares.  Place a red and white square with right sides together and sew 1/4" to each side of the diagonal line. 

Cut the squares apart and then cut along the diagonal lines.

Press open and square up as shown, placing your ruler's 45 degree line along the diagonal seam and trimming each side until you have a 1 1/2" HST

Now you can lay out your pieces to make your heart (disregard the extra HSTs (you only need 4).  Cut the remaining 2" red squares diagonally to get 6 more red triangles.

Lay out pieces for heart as shown here and sew all pieces together as shown in the following photos.  

 Press heart block and square up to 6 1/2".

 Pinwheels  (For the cushion)
Cut six 3" squares of two fabrics each for each pinwheel

Place 3" squares together and sew around the perimeter.  Cut each diagonally twice.

 Press open half square triangle (HST) and square up to 1 1/2". Then sew together as shown to make the pinwheels

Sew 6 pinwheels together to make the cushion.  Round the 4 outside corners by placing a 1" square on each corner and sewing along the diagonal line.

Ears
Take 2 1/2 x 5 1/2" background piece and lay triangles (cut from 2 7/8" cat fabric square that was cut diagonally to form 2 triangles) as shown.

Lay triangles onto background as shown so points extend over edge about 1/4".  

Sew 1/4" seam

Press open as shown.  Trim to 2 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Haunch Section
Place background triangle (from 3 7/8" square) on 3 1/2 x 8 1/2" cat haunch piece as shown.  (Note photo of background triangle is not accurate -- the triangle will be larger.)

Sew using 1/4" seam.  Trim, press open, square to 3 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Tail section

Place the 1 7/8" triangle on the tail piece as shown and sew 1/4" seam.  Trim and press open.

Repeat process with bigger triangle.  Trim, press open and squ. up to 2 1/2 x 3 1/2"

Sew sections in this order:
1.  Ears to head.
2.  Head section to right background.
3.  Heart section to bottom cat.
4.  Tail to left lower background.
5. Haunch to right lower background.
6.  Tail section to left upper background
7.  Sew the 3 colums together
8.  Side background pieces to cushion section and cushion section to completed cat section.

This picture doesn't show cushion rounded.  And the haunch is inaccurate.

Block would also be cute for pillow or wall hanging or come back soon for the instructions for the next Cozy Catz quilt block!