I’m working on a second Cleo panel. When I bought the first one, I asked my chief designer (aka “the hubs”) which fabrics in the collection would work for borders. Each of us independently chose three entirely different fabrics. So I bought a second panel and six different fabrics for the two panels. Here’s Cleo #1 and the following is quilt sandwich Cleo #2

He asked that each of the borders be the same width and specified the color progression. Cleo #1 was too wide for regular fabric backing (up to 42 inches) so I had to piece the backing widthwise and lengthwise using leftover fabric. Cleo #2 was wide enough for regular backing so I used leftover fabric to make it long enough, as you see here

I’ll be quilting Cleo #2 using a wavy quilting pattern (and avoiding the cat’s face) and will bind the quilt in red.

I continue to play with FPP (paper piecing). I pulled out some batik fabric and some coordinating fabric and created blocks as you can see in the first picture below. I’m not real happy with these blocks; they seem “muddy” to me. So I pulled out the very first block, evaluated it and decided I wanted brighter colors. I’ll use bright colors for the blocks and the multi-colored fabric for sashing. We’ll see how that works before I commit to a quilt or table topper or . . . .