Wednesday, July 2, 2014

All of the gigantic mice are present and accounted for. They were all quite happy to pose for the Rainbow Scrappy Challenge mid-year celebration and brought some of their baby mice along. Apparently baby mice only come in secondary colors and not primary. Odd.

Making the tails on the large mice still causes me more grief than I would like to admit to. I started out with an improv tail for the pink mouse, but made and used a template for the rest. Except I think that the seam allowance or something is off so the tails have not come together as nicely as I might like. Then I saw this amazing (and now obvious!) tip by Susan Jacuone in Workshops from Quiltskills, the Quilters' Guild of Australia. Take a paper template of the finished curved piece--in this case the mouse tail and its background components--then sew by machine around the finished edge to mark out your personal seam allowance.

And here is a closeup of some of the kittens. Needless to say, they won't stop play fighting and rolling around, even for their photograph. No wonder Tommy can't give these kittens away. But as you can see, when they play they make more interesting patterns than they would if I tried to keep them apart with sashing. (To see the entire flock of cranes, you can jump to this post.)

13 comments:

scraphappy said...

Cats and mice living together. Chaos! Looks like those giant mice could kick the cats to tomorrow though. Love them all

Mari said...

What a fun quilt! The tails look fine to me. Can't tell you had any problem. Very nice!

Carla A Few Of My Favorite Things said...

Those giant mice just make me smile! No wonder you kittens are scattering every which way, Love the polka background you used with your kittens.

Marly said...

These are all such fun. The mice look ready to do battle with any encroaching cat!

Quiltdivajulie said...

The big mice and the little mice are awesome - no way to look at them and NOT smile!

I had not seen the kittens -- very cool block (and secondary pattern).

Your cranes are gorgeous, too!

Nell's Quilts said...

Cat and mouse - awesome quilt idea. The fabrics are so delightful and make each mouse and cat truly unique.

Deb A said...

Love the secondary pattern the kitties make. Those mice look like they rule the roost - no wonder the kittens are all running scared!

Angie said...

So cute! I have enjoyed watching these blocks appear!

Anonymous said...

Your mouses are sooo cute! Nice to see them all together :)
Gun, Sweden

Sheila said...

These blocks are so cute! I love, love, love them!

Andee said...

These are great blocks! Your rainbow quilts are looking good!

Mystic Quilter said...

Love the kitties and the way you have set them

KatieQ said...

I love the mice and kitties blocks. What a great idea to make these blocks in rainbow scraps.