Kitty Swap

I participated in a swap of kitty things.

I was in the pillow cover group.

I made a pillow cover and a table runner and sent them to a person.

A different person sent to me

My package arrived yesterday.

As you can see Cole was super excited about all the kitty stuffs in the box!

You know him and his love of balls.  This was the first thing he grabbed out of the package.

Finn patiently waited and found this toy to his liking.

A video of Finn playing with his new toy

A video of Cole playing with his new toy!

I can't even begin to express how thrilled I am with all the things my partner sent to me!

Instead of a pillow cover she made a mini quilt and it could not be more spot on.

It has Finn, Hallie, Cole and Jack (on the Rainbow Bridge).  

This is such a great representation of my cats!  I was so touched she included Jack too.

Just look at all this cool stuff!  

The mini, sox, 2 different cat fabric bowls, a stuffed cat some candy, a sticker, three cat toys

 (not pictured, obviously), some thread, a coffee cup band to keep the cup warm, and kitty treats!  How lucky am I???

 I caught Finny shoving his face in the coffee holder!  HA!  

As soon as I put this down to take a picture, BAM, they were all over it!

Slightly better behaved.

Anyway, partner, I could not be more thrilled with my package.  

So far I am 100% happy with all of the swaps I have been involved with!  

Do you remember the two things I made and sent (along with some other goodies, of course)?

This was the pillow cover I sent.

Then I made a table runner for the extra we were supposed to include.  

I think she actually liked this better than the cover!

It is pretty darned cute.

I may just need to make one for myself!

Do you do swaps?

Have you been happy with what you received?

Have a great week while I'm away!!

~XOP~

Kitty Swap

I am participating in a swap on IG.  It was to swap either a mini quilt or a pillow cover. 

I opted for the pillow cover as I have a LOT of mini quilts.  

That meant I had to make a pillow cover. 

It is a blind swap meaning you get assigned a person to make/send to but have no idea who has you. 

I don't know if my person reads my blog so I won't say more than that right now.  

We had to fill out a form with likes, dislikes, etc.  

I decided I wanted to make a Hipster Cat pillow cover.  

The pattern is by Sewing With Squeak.  She has cute patterns! 

It is FPP and it went together pretty well. 

 I used cat breed words for the background and quilted it with straight lines but also outlined the cat.

These were my fabric choices.

I got the top of the head pieced and knew I had made a good choice!

Such a cute little nose!

Stripes made an awesome bow tie.  You can see the quilting too.

Here he is in all his aqua glory. 

I was trying to decide the border and ended up using the same sparkly fabric 

that I used for his glasses.

I had this really cool almost gray suit material that I put on the back. 

 It reminded me of a man's nice gray suit.  

I used the envelope back tutorial from Crazy Mom Quilts to make my back.

Front and back (the top is closer to the actual color.)

I sure hope my partner likes this one.  It is totally one I could keep!!!

 I have more to share soon.

We had to make another handmade item to send and mine is almost finished.

~XOP~