Because I love cats, this was a fun quilt to make.

Each block has a store-bought batik square in the center. Surrounding the center square are simple square and and triangle patches sewn together to look like pinwheels.

The inside border is a series of half-square triangles with a simple strip of blue fabric between them. The outside border was made by sewing strips of purple fabric together and then cutting them on an angle to make it look like diamonds.

Because I wanted the arrow-looking border to come out even, I needed to do something in the corners, so I added little squares. Each corner has a tiny pinwheel (with a border to make it the right size), two pieced fish, and a pieced mouse.

Then I added a simple black border.

It looks kind of complicated, and may sound difficult, but taking one step at a time, it was really pretty easy.

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On a summer trip our family visited Chartres Cathederal in France.
I tried to capture the color of the stained glass windows in this quilt. It is hand pieced and machine quilted.
It is based on the kaleidoscope block.
It hangs in the Learning Center on the University of Alaska campus in Sitka, Alaska.



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