feline friends

We just found an incredibly charming quilt design by Wendy Sheppard, featuring a great panel fabric of the Feline Friends collection by Michael Miller, and of course had to share its free sewing pattern here! Some of the fabrics in the series, featuring a gang of really cute and funny cartoon-like cats and kittens, have recently arrived in our Hong Kong store, and have been a real source of enjoyment for us all! 🙂 This project will suit any cat lover with some sewing experience and skills, being recommended for confident beginners.

The quilt uses a panel fabric made up of smaller rectangular panels with different cat-related designs, and you will need to cut each of these to use them separately. Check the images below for an overview of the quilt, some close-ups and our picture of the full panel fabric required. You will see the basic design alternates those smaller panels with rectangular pieces of other cat fabrics in the series over a white background, all joined together by blue and white horizontal and vertical sashing blocks. Undoubtedly, the clever cat corner blocks are our favorite design feature!! They make all the difference when framing each small panel. 🙂

The whole picture is then surrounded by matching frames, plus the outer binding, again in white and some other colorful fabrics with flowers and cats. We’ve included adorable cat fabrics you can try out here, plus some lovely solid color fabrics too.

This may paw-ssibly be the funniest cat quilt of the season! What do you think of it? Do not wait any longer, let yourself be carried away by cute cat-fueled inspiration! Remember to send us images of the finished project, as we always love to see what you do, and would love to share them! 🙂

Paw-ssibly the funniest cat quilt of the season? Get the free sewing pattern here! 1

Michael Miller colorful panels fabric with cats

Michael Miller fabric with striped cat pattern

Michael Miller white cat fabric

cute white Michael Miller fabric colourful Calico Cat

birch organic fabric in solid blue

Aqua blue solid Kona fabric Robert Kaufman USA

light blue fabric by Timeless Treasures

Recently some gorgeous Michael Miller fabrics arrived in our shop, and we are enthusiastically admiring many of their new designs, knowing for certain that they will be a source of visual joy for as long as stock lasts! However, we also know many of our customers are great fans of this popular textile company, so these beautiful designs may likely be gone for good pretty soon. Therefore, let us make the most of them while we can!

Here is a great way to do so: a wonderful free sewing pattern by Natalie Crabtree for a meowvellous quilt. It uses a delightful panel fabric plus some other designs from the collection Feline Friends, which – yes, you guessed right – is all about the funniest and cutest cats. Check out the images below for an overview of the finished project!

You will need just a little quilting experience to succeed with this free quilt pattern. It features different sized fabric strips that frame the panel, together with some blocks using triangles and squares, and the clever balls of yarn marking two of the corners. Any beginner willing to practice newly acquired sewing skills will enjoy this pattern, and probably learn a few useful tricks from it. In the hope that we help you get inspired, we have added pictures of some other cat fabrics in our online shop. Enjoy, and do not forget to share with us your own photos of the quilt, should you decide to give it a go!