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Buy the book "Cats Who Quilt." Buy your cat the "Certificate of Membership in the League of Cat Quilters." Make your cat very happy. Buy other stuff too, like some of the other cat quilt pattern books featured on this Web site. 
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World's Biggest Cat Quilt Pattern Database. Find cat quilting patterns in this "shareware" directory of cat patterns around the world. 
History of the Web site, and the book's rocky road into print. 
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Here's where you'll find tutorials for designing needlework on your computer, as well as everything you need to know about printing photos on fabric. 
Proof that all our needlework projects come from a higher source. 
Is there a special guy in your life who runs your quilting Web site, who drives you to fabric stores, who humors you with "Honey, but that quilt looks lovely!" when you're too embarrassed to pull it out of the closet? Honor your special guy here in our special feature Quilt Guy of the Month! 
Looking for information on how to use a sewing machine with a blow stick or help for quilting if your eyesight is failing? Here's some help. |
Patterns for Cat Quilts with Embroidered Blocks, and Embroidery Patterns that Would Look Great on Cat Quilts "Kitties to Stitch & Quilt" by Nancy Martin offers iron-on transfers for 15 adorable kitties in domestic scenes for redwork embroidery. I was hunting for embroidery patterns like this for ages. This large book also includes several patterns for making pieced '30s feedsack-style quilts in which to use the kittie patterns. You can buy this book from the Cats Who Quilt Shop, or by hitting the Shopping button at the left.
Dougal Walker at Folk Art Stitchery N' Quilts sells this wonderful pattern for cat quilt with an embroidered top depicting cats doing cat-like things.
Gwen Falla in Scotland has founded an embroidery design company called Cat In the Attic. Her site also offers a message board for cat fans and embroiderers.  This is one of my absolute favorites! It's a redwork pattern for a wall-sized quilt of a little girl sewing with her cat looking on. It can be used as the center of a quilt too. It's from Sentimental Stitches, 4759 Boyd Ave., NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525, 616/361-9255, e-mail ssquilt@aol.com.
"Penny Squares: Cats" -- During the early part of this century, one could buy squares of muslin stamped with embroidery designs for a penny. Children usually worked them in red, and they were later sewn into quilts. These are original penny square patterns of cats (you need to transfer them to muslinyourself with embroidery transfer paper). I wasn't terribly fond of them, but you may like them. Willa Bee Studio, 269 Woodland Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127.
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| "Calico Kittens" is a must-have book of cross-stitch designs--12 in all, a kitty for every season and holiday. They're from "Designs by Gloria & Pat, Inc., P.O. Box 2318, Sumter, SC, 29151-2318. | |
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