These pieces were the first blocks I made when testing my theory for making “The Cat Came Back” quilt. They were pinned to my design wall but I wasn’t sure what I would do with them. When we visited Elizabeth in November she mentioned that she needed potholders. Voila – they now had a purpose and a home. I quilted them after my first set of free motion quilting classes. The centers are framed using a stitch-in-the-ditch method and one of the decorative stitches on my machine. Elizabeth received them for Christmas 2011.