It’s my pleasure to introduce you to Miss Patch, award winning quilter, knitter, and stuffed cat.
Read her backstory below:
I knew I wanted to make something cat related, especially after wrapping up my Scaredy Cat blog post. During dinner one night, I took a leisurely stroll through Pinterest, looking at stuffed cat patterns and becoming increasingly inspired to make one. I convinced Jack to help, because 3D objects scare me!
Jack drafted a pattern from paper while I searched for the puurfect fabric. He applied stabilizer, traced the pattern onto the back of the fabric and passed everything over for me to sew. I turned the limbs right-side-out and filled with stuffing. Jack agreed to sew the limbs to the body, because I have no patience. He turned everything right-side out and I filled the body with stuffing. See, team work makes the dream work!
There she was! A beautiful stuffed, but naked cat.
Jack drafted a dress pattern and away he went—making the skirt, bodice, and belt. I embroidered her little nose, whiskers, and gave her lots of cattitude through her smile.
Completed, she’s roughly 16’’ tall and 8’’ wide. Her body is Riley Blake Designs Shades basic. Her dress is a combination of Scaredy Cat Grid, Pin Dot Halloween and Shades basics. For her facial details, I used a Lori Holt Happy Farm Girl DMC Thread Pack from Fat Quarter Shop.
Her mini quilt is 16’’ square. It’s quilted using Aurifl Monofilament Thread on my BabyLock Journey. I love the built-in serpentine stitch as well as my digital dual-feed foot. The digital dual-feed foot feeds the fabric evenly, gives me great controls and consistent stitches. To finish off her mini quilt, I added one more detail—hand-tied knots with Lori Holt’s Chunky Thread. So cute, right?
She entered her quilt into the Puurfect Points Quilt Show and guess what, she won first puurize!
I hope you enjoyed meeting Miss Patch and stay tuned, you’ll never know when she might pop back up!
cut, sew, repeat..
the tattooed quilter