Tall Catz Portrait Instructions

QUILT SIZE: 18” x 22” (45cm x 56cm)

BLOCKS
Cut out one 10” Sitting Catz block.
Because we are making a taller version than the pattern suggest you will also need to cut another background tummy.
Make up the face and collar following the Sitting Catz instructions.
Place the tummy vertically before trimming to shape.
Place a background tummy on both sides, also vertically and using the ‘overlap cut’, trim the backgrounds in an tummy echoing shape.
Insert the tail, if desired, as normal.
Trim to 10 1/2” x 14 1/2”.

INNER BORDER
Cut two sides, 1” x 14 1/2”. Stitch on.
Cut a top and bottom, 1” x 11 1/2”. Stitch on.

OUTER BORDER
I mitred the corners to better ‘frame’ the block. You may stitch on the sides then top and bottom, square as usual, if you prefer.
To mitre;
Cut two sides, 3 3/4” x 25”. Stitch on starting and stopping 1/4” in from the edge with backstitches.
Cut a top and bottom, 3 3/4” x 21”. Stitch on starting and stopping 1/4” in from the edge with backstitches.
One corner at a time, fold under and press the mitre on one piece of each corner so it looks perfect on top and the outer and inner edges of the excess border line up and continue equally.
Open up carefully without moving the corner off line. Pin on the open fold.
Stitch on the fold line, from the inner border to the outer edge, pulling the inner border seams out of the way. Trim off excess border. Press.

FINISHING/QUILTING
Sandwich.
Machine quilt around the cat, collar, nose and inner border in the ditch. Free machine quilt curls in the backgrounds and daisies on the border.
Stitch on eyez.
Mark whiskers and the mouth with a silver pencil. Using two strands of embroidery cotton backstitch along these lines.
Bind and label.