Hi Everyone:
At our class this month we learned to make the Texas Two Step pattern. Here is a picture of it. I machined quilted the back. Still have to put the binding on but was anxious to show it off. Just used scraps for this . It was easy and fun to make.

Very nice :D

I really like your quilt..................BEAUTIFUL

Very nice. I like the color combination you used. Keep it up!

I really like that! The kitty is cute too!

Great quilt! Lighning is adorable.

Looks like Lightening has approved it. Beautiful!!!

Beautiful! Love the colors.

You know you've done well when your cat (ahem, "feline master"... sorry, Lightning! :P) approves of your quilting! :) Wonderful job!

Very nice! What a sweet kittie.

Neat pattern, love your colors and the kitten :D

Very pretty

Very Pretty!! Love it!!

Love your colors! Great job!

Very nice!

Very pretty. Great job!!

quilt = Very pretty

cat = adorable

Very pretty, you did a great job on it!

I agree with lightning Great work. Perfect to crawl under and sleep :D

Really pretty--love your colors!

Love your color combo- as usual...I like that pattern too, it looks like it was easy and fun to make.

I love your quilt. I have never heard of that pattern, but I sure like it. Your fabric combination is great--the colors looks fantastic together. And your kitty is adorable, too!!

Nice work.....

Lovely job. Kitty looks as though she is saying "Is this for me?"

I keep looking at all of the kitties on line here and keep wondering if I should add a feline to our doggie household, Lightening is so adorable. Dont you just love taking classes, its a great way to meet new people etc. Wonderful work on the new quilt, one day I will get the kids to show me how to put what few pictures of my quilts online....

Very nice quilt. I love the colors, they are so rich looking.

Very nice! I like the way you quilted it also. That pattern looks like a keeper to me.

Me likey!! very pretty!
Lightening is cute too!

How cute is that. Love the scrappy feel to it. Thanks for sharing.

Love the colrs and pattern of your quilt. Nice quilting too.

Very nice! And it looks like it has the "kitty stamp of approval" too. :wink:

Ooooooooooooooo pretty. You did a great job!

Grandma Cindy: You mentioned "what few pictures I have of my quilts." Oh! please, take pictures of everything you make because after awhile you forget about them. Our quilt teacher told us the very first class I took to never let anything you make get out of your sewing room without taking a picture of it ...kinda like your "kids" going off to college is how she put it. I love going back to look at things I made 6, 7 or 8 years ago.

You have puppies...we lost our granddog about 2 years ago and still miss her. She was 16 1/2 years old when she passed. A mini-Schnauzer. We have 2 kitties that we rescued that are now 4 and 8 and we foster kitties (and dogs on occasion) for our local animal rescue. Lightening and his 3 nest mates are fosters. They are ready for forever homes but we haven't found homes for them yet. It's always so hard to let them go after we've cared for them for a second or two. With Lightening and his sibling group we've had to do alot of medical stuff as they were nearly starved to death when we got them, just nothing left of them. We force fed them so they'd eat and now they are wonderful and healthy. One of the siblings died a week after we got them as he just wasn't strong enough to fight his adversities. We still mourn him as we really tried to give him life. Kitties are "good things." We love each and everyone of the 67 or so that we've fostered in the past 5 years.

When you foster the kittens, do you have to find them homes or does someone else do that? I still work and have a teen at home . I dont know 67 people to give kittens to... do you live in Texas? I am going next week to spend time with son and family.. San Antonio. My two mini dogs are a poodle and a dashund..by for now, Cindy

Hi Cindy:
Homes for our foster kitties are varied. We put the kitties on PetFinder on the net, plus they are listed and pictured on our animal rescue's website www.catlink.org plus word of mouth; presence with staff & the kitties in Petco stores in the metro area. We are very particular about the homes we find for our kitties and we make home visits and check back with the adoptive families after the adoption to make sure everything is going well. Our kitties have gone as far as Boston, Mass and Cape Town, South Africa and right next door!

Our rescue program promotes SPAY/NEUTER for all animals and last year they altered almost 1,000 kitties from feral colonies where the "civilized humans" in our population has opted to dump animals along freeways, in parks and in parking lots instead of caring for them. Life on the street for a poor animal without human help is brutal and cruel. Our Lightening and his siblings came from a hoarder0 colony where none of the animals had enough to eat so would scavenge in the camp areas of the homeless folks...the adult cats were having their legs cut off by some of the homeless drunks just for the fun of it. There were 40 animals rescued from that site. One man is in jail over this horrible situation.

Your quilt is beautiful. It's nice that you foster animals. It's hard to hear on the news that some people are having to give up their pets because they can't afford to take care of them. This ecomomy has had a negative effect on animals too.

Beautiful!! Love the colors and fabric choices!

Kyia

That is so beautiful. I just love the colors.

Very pretty colors. Love the pattern.

Thank you all for the wonderful comments about my little scrappy quilt. I've heard that in nature all colors co-mingle, match and compliment each other.......I think that often happens when making scrap quilts.