OFW Hexie , Pets on Quilts, my 100th Post& ?

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."   - Henry Ford

Well I don't know if Henry Ford would include quilting mistakes in the quote above but I guess it's possible to sew something wrong and decide you like it better............

So anyway........I am at the point with my Hexagon Oz Wall Hanging that I am not sure I want to sew the whole flower together for fear I will have to take it apart.......so I have been making mountains of petals for the Kansas side of the Oz hanging in hopes of finding just the right colors that will transition from a tornado sky to the blue sky of Oz................but in the meantime I found some more "flying" animals to add to the Kansas sky..........I may have found the perfect batik fabric this week at my LQS and I think I will use it to form the tornado..........

the flowers don't show up as well on this fabric although I like the way the cat and the pig could be placed so they look like they really  are flying in the tornado...... but here they are on another background so you can see them better.

Have you all been to Karen's OFW page today?  She has a beautiful garden and you can go there by clicking on this LINK

In the next part of my post I want to tell you all about the linky party at Lily Pad Quilting............it is the wonderful, fantabulous, (drumroll) 

I hope you will click on the link above and check out all the incredible entries.
This is my first year to enter and I am entering the quilt I made for my son, Josh.  I am entering it in the category, "Cat on Quilt/Cat themed quilt".  I don't know if that is one category or two but I am entering both. Voting will not be open until August 9 and will run until August 12.  I hope you will vote for "Josh's Kitty Quilt" and help me win some fabulous prize!  I will place a link on my page on the 9th if you would like to vote....Ok here we go!
  First photo is of just the quilt.........

 and a closeup of the center block:

My son, Josh has loved cats since he was just a little tyke and during his lifetime we have had two wonderful cats running in our house, so I found it fitting to dedicate his quilt to Lucy and Tinkerbell.  Lucy is the cat represented by the two opposing yellow cats and Tinkerbell is the gray cat.  The center block is "Snails Trail", which is perfect for the 4 cat tails...............
The quilt was made after Lucy was no longer with us (she crossed the Rainbow Bridge at the ripe old age of 19)  but we are lucky that Tinker (14 yrs old now) is still with us.
Here are some photos to show you how Tinker approves of her namesake quilt:

 As I mentioned earlier.....Lucy was with us for 19 years.....I brought her home to be a "mouser" in 1980 so she was already 6 years old when my son, Josh, came along.........and Josh loved cats from the first.....here he is over the years with sweet Miss Lucy......

We rescued Tinkerbell in a rainstorm from the rain gutter at Albertsons's grocery back in 1998.   Josh and I were just leaving when he said, "Look, Mama, there's a poor little kitty over there in the rain"..................

When we drove up, stopped and got out, the kitty had disappeared!  I had a feeling that the kitty had caught a ride under our car so I drove back home (a block away) very slowly.....then we pulled into the garage, got out and went inside..........about 15 minutes later Josh had gone out to check and heard "meow, meow, meow....".....and so is the story of Tinkerbell's "adoption"............A cat will decide who will be her master and Tinker chose Josh........(Lucy was mine). We actually had two cats in the house for a couple of years....but now Tinkerbell runs things..........Josh just got home from work and he indulged his Mama in one more photo........here he is today with his Tinkerbell

Tinker does like to be "consulted" with other quilting projects........here she is helping me with my State Birds Dresden quilt.......

 Gosh this is the longest post I've ever had...........and so it is fitting that it is also my 100th post!  And another thing is happening this month........I will celebrate my birthday on Saturday and I was just thinking that this would be the perfect time for a giveaway!  Since I have already stretched your patience with this lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnng post........please forgive me.....I will just ask you to stay tuned because I will post the giveaway soon! TaTa for now!