Something Old, Something New...

I had used this block pattern in a sampler, years ago. It's called Waterwheel in my book. I liked the look of it and the chance to use scraps. So I began making up blocks, keeping the star points blue, the rest scrappy. But what to do with the blocks? And then one day I realized that if I were to put a block with 4 patch corners next to this one, you'd get a neat secondary pattern. So I made up one of this variation Puss in The Corner and tried them together. I liked it...*VBS* So I was off and running. It got to be a fairly big quilt. About right for a double, but way too long..oh well! I added a blue border and had it machine quilted. I still really love the combination of the blocks. Here is a section of the center. I love how
the diagonals POP! And I snapped a full lenght shot of it as well. You can see that my part of WI has a lovely brown look for Christmas. Flurries in the forecast, but we'll see. The temps have been hovering in the high 30's and low 40's. Not WI weather, at all.
In making the blocks, I based every thing on 2.5" and 4.5"...you get 12" blocks that way.
It wouldn't be too hard to change the size of the 4 patches nor the HST's.
Clare has asked how is Ebby doing? She doing soooo well. We are approaching 3 months together, and I can see improvement each day. She owns me more and more, but just a little at a time. I fixed her morning eating(followed by morning un-eating) by just giving her a tiny, tiny dab of the wet food. She wants more, but at least this stays down. She eats some dry, and seems to be doing fine. Then in the evening, about suppertime, I give her the balance of the 1 tsp. she gets daily. I've also moved the hairball squeeze to evening. I think that helped too. She was just tooooooo hunger in the a.m. and ate way too fast. I've also switched over to Fancy Feast, and that way the whole gravy thing is gone...which seems to be helping.