PatchKats BOM – 2015 BOM

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This design has special meaning because it’s named  after my dear friend Susan who passed away in 2014.  A prolific quilter and cat lover, her email/online name was “PatchKat.”  She saw the earlier versions and loved it and always told me I needed to finish the design.  And so I have and will be sharing it in her honor and memory with you.  

Updated 12/2/15: — this pattern is no longer available for free thru my blog.  It will be available for purchase only through Electric Quilt sometime in the future but you will need to have EQ software in order to use it.

For those who stitched along on this project this year (or who are still stitching – as I am) I hope you enjoy your quilt when it is finished.   Please share photos in my Flickr group so we can all see your version of it.

Denise

 

101 comments on “PatchKats BOM – 2015 BOM”

  2. Love the 2015 BOM. Very creative. Thanks for all the work you do to make these available to all your followers.

  3. Can hardly wait! Usually I see BOM quilts and they remind me of the person they should find a home with but this one speaks to me 🙂

  17. I want to sign up to participate in this one. I missed the dogs and for that I’m very sad because I love the way it looks and I wanted so much to get that extra one with the Santa Hat on. But I do understand your reasoning.

  20. Being a cat lover, I definitely want to make this quilt! Will you notify when you put first section on line?

    • There of course will be a blog post when it starts and more information is posted but you need to either subscribe to my blog or check back to make sure you get the info.

  24. Can’t wait for this one to start, my mom and I love cats. Have made 2 cat quilts and 2 little wallhangings.

  29. Such a beautiful design – and such a nice idea to remember a friend, you and all of us who will take part in this BOM will allways remember her.
    Wait for the beginning!

  30. Beautiful! Can,t thank you enough. Going to use it for Live Auction item for our local humane society.

  31. I love cats and this starts just in time to be a Birthday present to myself. Thank you and your Friend for this beautiful pattern + sew along.

  32. I am looking forward to starting the BOM. Love the birds with bunny ears and tails at the top of your blog.

  33. Wonderful design to honor your friend. I also read her blog and enjoyed hearing about the kitties she loved so much. Thanks for sharing your design.

  35. What a wonderful way to remember a friend. Everyone who makes the quilt will know the story of how it became to be and will remember you and your friend. Can’t wait to get started.

  36. So excited that this BOM is starting! Plan to make 2 wall hangings for my mother in law and my husband’s aunt. Both are cat lovers!

  37. I, of course, will make the larger size. How can I not? VBG I like the idea of inserting different 6″ blocks for the 9-patches so will proceed to Marcia Hohn’s site and look around. Wonder if she has a 6″ puss in the corner, lol!

    • Can’t remember if there was a puss in the corner but I do remember seeing Tellestating kats (that might not be the exact name) but it reminded me of all those kat block swaps Susan hosted. 😉

      • Yes, I saw that one. I think you were in the cat exchange when I joined the group. I regretted missing out on it once I figured out what was going on!

  39. ready..ready.ready. Do you think I’m anxious or what.thanks for sharing this special pattern with your friends and followers.

  40. Thank you in anticipation for this great pattern. It is irresistible and I just have to make it. I love cats and nine patches and am most appreciative of you so generously sharing it with us all.

  41. What a great design! But then all of your quilt designs are great…Thank you for your generosity in sharing it.

  42. What a nice thing to do in memory of Susan, she did love her cats for sure. Thank you for all the work you do in designing and offering your BOM’s.

  43. I will definitely need to make this—in memory of our wonderful Susan. The BOM (or swap–don’t remember which) she did had a sort of tensellating cat pattern—have that quilt somewhere waiting to be quilted. I NEED TO MAKE THIS ONE! Love the pattern Denise!

    • Thanks Marilyn — yes, I know I’ve quilted one or two projects using those swap block kitties but I think there’s still one or two more left to quilt. Considering I’m not a cat person myself, that’s a whole lot of kitties to have in my stash. 🙂

  44. ok, so magic. Somehow I got onto the correct page that had the right side buttons. Thank you so much. Cute pattern.

  45. This pattern is perfect for all us “kittie” lovers. I can’t wait to start this. Thank you for sharing.

  48. Hooray! The wait for this start is over. This quilt will be going to a co-worker friend of mine. I just have to decide what colors to use so she will not only like the quilt, but will fall in love with it.

  49. Hooray!! I have the March installment ~ this is going to be so much fun! I have never sewn along with a group before, so it feels like I belong to a guild now, kind of special too, with it being a Kitty quilt ~ thank you so much for making this a free pattern

  50. i have been downloading your monthly blocks and mystery’s for along time, and I think your Ideas are the greatest! I love the way you explain the steps and help when we need it. I also think it is great that you explain your ideas before we even get to the project. Keep going girl, I am a fan! Donna

  54. Hi I was on Pat’s Blog and saw this wonderfully sweet quilt and I said I just can’t tackle another big quilt right now but I wondered if a wall hanging could be done. I didn’t see the measurements for it? I will go look at pattern and maybe will change my mind.

  55. Finally got my fabric ordered. I liked the 30’s repros for this but didn’t find a lot around here.

  58. Thanks for sharing this pattern. I have 4 cats and I know they will love this quilt as much as I do. 😉

  59. finished my border blocks today. I love the border and of course the cats. Thanks again for sharing,

  60. Thank you for sharing this pattern. I am collecting it for my daughter. She wants to make it when she finishes school this summer.

  61. Just wanted to say thank you for sharing this pattern. I just got out of the hospital and have learned that my chances of living longer than the next two years aren’t great but when I saw this I knew I had to made it for my sister. She loves cats and will be taking care of my two after I’m gone so I am excited to start working on this quilt. Rina

  64. Thanks for the revisions! I still haven’t decided on my colors for my friend and this will save me one huge headache.

  66. Thanks so much for the new instructions. I am going to love making this quilt for a young “orphan homed” girl. Cathryn

  67. OMG my computer crashed and I lost ALL of the previous parts. 😦 I was getting ready to cut up the April ones when this happened….Looks like I am out now 😦

    • Oh thank you thank you thank you android! I had checked this out on my phone and it is still there!!!! Bring on the kitty kats!!!

  68. Thank you for this pattern~ We had two black cats who were part of our family for over 20 years! This will be a fitting tribute. One was a boy, named Herman, and his sister was named Twidgett. I’m thinking of making the 9 patches in blues and pinks.
    Love this pattern and thank you for your kind generosity!

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  70. Good grief, Denise! I have all the patterns printed out, fabric is pressed and I got stopped. You are ahead of me!

    • FINALLY!!!!! I’m ahead of you. LOL (we won’t speak of Knitter’s Gifts or DPPAS or…..all those others I haven’t finished yet) But I am determined to get this top done.

  71. You are ahead of me as I am currently, and valiantly, trying to finish 2 quilts for my guild’s quilt show in November. I have to get more thread for one and don’t know if I’ll be able to get it.

  72. I haven’t even started yet. Thinking of a cat with a different colored tail, I though about extending or incorporating the colors in the nine patch into the tail.

  78. Thank you so much for this wonderful pattern!! I am going back to the picture from the beginning and all of my cats will have a different block in them. Can’t wait to see it done!!!!

  80. Thank you! I missed a month a while back and was so disappointed that I wasn’t going to be able to finish. I appreciate the chance to complete it. Thanks again!

  82. Thank You for this quilt pattern. This Christmas I put together 1/2 your dog blocks into a small quilt for a Children’s Home. Everybody just loves it. Thank you for your generosity. I will make a smaller version quilt of these cats for them too. I have to be consertive about the size I make because of the cost so I keep them to under 45″ X 63. The 12 blocks will make 2 quilts. I had two of your big star quilts that I gave them last year. They were wonderful

  84. Thank you very much for the alert to the end of the Patchkats. I had planned to do this project with you but my body had other plans and I ended up with life saving emergency surgery. So thank you again. I enjoy your reports on the weather. It is an interesting difference since I live 6 houses from the Texas Gulf of Mexico. I am also a paralegal. Good luck to you and have a very Merry Christmas.

  86. Thank you I really enjoy your patterns. I really appreciate you making all installments available So i can check and make sure I did not miss any. I know it is a lot of work.
    Elizabeth in Silverdale

  87. Thanks so much for all the creativity and effort you put into this, and for the reminder to be sure we had all the parts downloaded. You think of everything!

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