Longarm Quilting a Paper Pieced Cats Quilt

Fran's Paper Pieced Cats Quilt

This is Fran's absolutely amazing paper pieced cats quilt. She designed the layout of the quilt and had a wonderful idea for the quilting motif - an allover loop-de-loop with yarn balls.

The paw print blocks in the border are a really fun touch and I love the way she incorporated the cute pictures from a pre-printed panel in alternating blocks.

Fran also included the printed cats along the sides and bottom so the quilt ended up the correct size - 110" x 115".  This is a big quilt and I was excited and a little nervous about quilting it, but I think it turned out wonderful.

Here you can see the quilt on my longarm and a closeup of the loop-de-loops and yarn balls. What a perfect quilting idea!

Before and after quilting shots of the blue cat. He looks so cute with the runaway yarn all around him. The quilting helps tell the story of the quilt without overwhelming the top.

On the longarm. You can see the quilted and unquilted areas.

The completely quilted top with a peak at the back.

Quilting Summary

• Allover loop-de-loop with yarn balls
• Superior King Tut thread in Caravan for the top
• Superior So Fine thread in Ginger for the bottom
  
• 10 1/2 bobbins
• 80/20 batting

Fran did an amazing job on this quilt
and I'm sure the lucky recipient will love it!

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