Dear Cathy I was thrilled to hear about every aspect of the process of putting this wonderful expression of love and caring among friends. When I heard you say you aren’t quite a convert I started scanning my brain and wondered what would put you over the edge to become a convert. Then you said you were gifting the quilt to me! WHAT??!!! I cried for two hours. And then I read the comments and sniffled some more. What a timely gift!! I was recently in hospital for a minor problem which has put me significantly behind in my journey. I’m am blessed that I’m not seriously ill and am also blessed to be recovering so quickly now. And even more excited to receive your most generous gift. I can hardly wait!!
I have said it before, and I will say it again: I love a challenge! I could not be more grateful to you for sharing your love of Kaffe and the fabrics that inspired not just this quilt but another one too (and I have another in my mind!) So many things have come out of making this quilt: growth for me as a quilter, so many thoughts on how I'd like to use the fabrics, the fun I had playing with color, and of course, the relationship we have now that started with your generosity and desire to share. What a blessing! ❤️
@@TheCatBirdQuilts One more question. Have you heard of Tula pink?? I love her fabrics and colours but the little animals in some of her prints scare me half to death As a child i had many times of illness and could see little faces and animals in the wallpaper and curtains in my room. So they intrigue and terrify me at the same time. !! Summer will soon be gone and we will be moving again so that’s when I’ll do another stash dive for you
The Purple Kaffe quilt is gorgeous! When you started talking about your friend Shirley and then said “it is Shirley’s quilt”, it touched my heart. Such a special gift for everyone who was involved in the creating of this quilt
Yes... crying at the end because I'm sure when you received these fabrics you didn't know comforting Shirley would be part of this quilt's story... and neither did she... and that's why quilting can be a surprising & powerful expression of love...
All I can say is Wow! So beautiful. May it comfort Shirley with God's love through the creative hearts of Cathy, Vicki and Jennifer. That's what the art of quilting is all about.
Many quilters are reluctant to give up their quilts. Many quilters give them all away. You are a generous soul and give most of yours away. The difference in you and most quilters is that you have a fantastic quilt diary, in video form, that you can visit any time you want! Your videos tell the whole quilt story. I suspect in your later years you will watch these videos a lot!
Oh my, what a beautiful collaborative. A great gift to uplift another. Prayers that your gift brings peace to its recipient. Thanks again for all you Paul and the gang do for the quilting community.
Thank you, Chris!❤️ It was wonderful working together with my friend and Vicki---and of course Shirley who started the whole thing off with the fabric!
“Shirley’s Quilt” WHEW! My eyes are leaking…😢 You did a beautiful job with this along with your sister quilters. I love quilt stories and this is a beautiful one. Thank you for sharing your heart with us! Love ya sis! 💕
Wow. I am sure there is not a dry eye in the house. Your whole guild is sending prayers, love, and support to Shirley and gratitude to you. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we all admire this quilt journey and learned so much along the way. ❤🇨🇦
I love your stories, your heart and how God leads and blesses. So much joy and love in this quilt, both given and received. All blessings to you and Paul as you bring joy to the world.
Emergent Properties!!!! Your quilt is a fabulous (“quilty” and artistic) example of this fascinating phenomenon that occurs when seemingly unrelated divergent “things” come together to create surprisingly and entirely new properties in a system, or in this case, a “quilty creation”! As a retired science teacher, the “Purple Kaffe Quilt” project gives me all of the feelings of awe and wonder I’d experience when teaching emergent properties within biological systems! I love it!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I think the critical components were adding the pieced linen backing and your friend executing the perfect quilting design! An absolutely magical combination! Then, realizing that the same sweet friend who gifted the fabric could use the quilt hug at the exact time it was completed is utterly perfect!!❤ I’m certain that your sweet friend will experience all of the joy and comfort that is intended and needed now by receiving this gift. I have them simply by watching your video. I’ll bet you didn’t expect to give a retired science teacher so much joy watching the emergent properties of your quilt appear in today’s video! 🤣🤓👍🏼 Thanks Cathy and Paul 🥰
Once again you have risen to a challenge and come out victorious.🏅And now, passing the quilt on to Shirley to wrap herself in comfort and love and to bring her peace, because that’s what quilts do. A lovely thoughtful, kind of a full circle, gift from 3 talented women. 🩷💜💙🩵💚
Cathy, your video today brightened many folks who have observed your process as well as your thoughtfulness toward your friend, to meet a need in her life, such warmth to our hearts, gratefulness as well to see empathy met with such a generous response (real action). Thank you for sharing today with us all.
I kept thinking all the way through, "Yes! Yes! Yes!". You are so good at letting us share your joy, joy that the quilters' world truly understands. There must be thousands of quilters out there that followed your story sharing your excitement all the way. Thank you for letting us hold The Purple Kaffe close for a while.
A great example of collectiv iintelligence! Everyone brought an ingredient to the recipie and the result ist a delicious organic quilt, that looks like 100 years old of love! What a great story, from the generosity that builds friendship, that allows you to jump over your own limits and discover new possibilities of beauty until the love you give back! The quilt is just gorgeous but the story behind make it even more special. No doubt it will cheer your friend up! 💗
Great quilt! Great story! There's a blogger I follow that uses a lot (A LOT!) of Kaffe fabrics and puts them together in such interesting combinations that I'm in awe and I've bought some Kaffe to try myself. Your quilt has me seeing that they don't all have to be set together to get a great quilt look. I've only found you recently and am slowly catching up with previous videos and accumulating a stash of shirts. Even a couple of linen. (not much of that in the Northeast). I also appreciate the effort Paul makes with inserts and definitions and pictures for your videos.
Ah-hah! You proved my point; that being, if you like your flimsy before you quilt it, you're going to love it after it's quilted. You clearly LOVE that quilt, now. It is, indeed, beautiful!!! The longarmer couldn't have selected a better quilt design. Finally, how gracious of you to give the quilt to the person who gave you the Kaffe fabric. You have such a beautiful soul.
Addendum: I hope Kaffe and Brandon come across this video. I think it would be gratifying for them to see all of the love generated through working with and giving these fabrics. In fact, I’m going to try to find their contact info and send it to them. Such a beautiful story.
I have always loved Kaffe Fassett - his knitwear designs and then his fabrics and quilts. I appreciate how you took these fabrics and really made them your own; I also appreciate how you used your quilting community to make a work of art that is so much more than the sum of each person's contribution. Shirley's quilt is a gift that will continue for years.
Loved hearing how you tackled a project with fabric that is not your natural habitat! Stunning result. "Shirley's quilt". 🥲 Wishing Shirley all the very best.
This quilt turned out so amazing. I'm not a "convert" either...I have used KF maybe twice. It's way to expensive for me. Anyway, I love your quilt, and the quilting did beautify your work!
I just love this quilt , the colors , the shirts ,the linen backing design and the quilting ,omg, so much goodness. I really love the story and the beautiful collaboration of talented people that brought it to life. May it bless Shirley and everyone it touches with joy, positivity and peace today. Thank you Cathy .😊
Oh Kathy! Having watched you all this time I instinctively knew where you were going! You have wrapped Shirley in love. There is no greater gift! Happy tears all around! Thank you for bringing light into the world ❣️
I adore quilts that are made with linen. They feel so good to me! And I love crinkly quilts. My great aunt taught me how to quilt and she always used flannel as backing so I did that for years...and then I tried linen for a summer quilt and now all the winter/fall quilts I make have flannel backs and all my spring/summer quilts will have linen backs. And I too have to talk myself out of just using linen...because it's more annoying to sew...but the results are so fabulous...❤❤❤
Delightful story with a delightful ending. You brought tears to my eyes. I bet you did to her eyes, too. I have PLENTY of gaffe, I don't have linen shirts but I do have a collection of Essex linen that will fill the bill. I'm making a couple of these. One to donate to a very worthy cause, and one just for me. Thanks, Kathy.
I have a lot of the warm Kaffe colors, the yellows, the oranges and the reds. I love it but I’ve been paralyzed to pick a pattern. I worry it will not do justice to the fabric. This video has calmed my nerves and made me realize that the simpler pattern really allows the fabulous prints to shine. It is now going to be my next project.
An absolutely Gorgeous Quilt. It is perfectly complete. Congratulations to everyone who had a part in your vision. May Shirley enjoy many hours snuggled underneath it 😊
Good morning from Canyon, TX! I love watching your videos! The purple Kaffe is gorgeous (I’m a bright and bold fabric lover). I also liked seeing that someone else likes to machine bind quilts. I look forward to your next fun video!😁🤗
You have come up with a work of art. Wow. I like the back better than the front. But for quilts, it is all about the quilting. Te binding is rhe icing. Beautiful.
How beautiful, Cathy. I mean the story, but also the quilt. I've got a Kaffe quilt in the works as well, 1" hexagon EPP. I say that with trepidation, because I'm not really a sewist and this will probably take me AGES.
Your quilt is beautiful. ❤❤❤ Thank you for the inspiration. I also have some Kaffe fabrics I adore but not sure what to make with them. A few years ago I made my daughter a KAFFE throw and she loves it, it’s purple too. I made large flying geese 3x6. It’s so beautiful. I’m guess I need to start cutting 😊.
I enjoyed watching the story of *The Purple Kaffe* from the first video. The end result is stunning, and reminds me to not get caught up in the details or doubts of the process of whatever challenges we face, but carry on with hope and trust to allow the blessing to come. Thank you Cathy for inspiring us with what you do. 💜
Just Wow!! It is like looking through a window on to a garden of flowers on pretty much all of the blocks! I am working on some quilts (some inspired by you and your channel). Unfortunately, I have osteoarthritis in both thumb joints (which impacts my wrist and forearm) and is quite painful. Have to pace myself. Will be having surgery and will have to be in a cast for 6 weeks! My Occupational Therapist says that the surgery is very successful.... Can hardly wait to post a quilt that has been "commissioned" by a friend when it is done. P.S. you are so lucky to find such wonderful linen fabrics when you are "hunting" at the thrift stores!
I love Kaffe Fassett fabric and have used it in several quilts. Yours is truly beautiful, the colors are amazing, the quilting wonderful. My favorite part of quilting is taking it out of the dryer and seeing it so soft and crinkly. I do not give any quilts to their intended recipients until they are washed.
Same here! A quilt is rarely back in my house more than 24 hours before it’s been bound and IMMEDIATELY into the wash. It’s the dryer door opening moment that is the pinnacle of the process for me.
I love, love, love your purple quilt. A simple pattern can be so stunning when the colors are carefully chosen, as you always do. Really inspiring to me.
Love the story. Love the simplicity of pattern with artful quilting. I am a huge fan of thrifting. It can inspire in so many ways. Thank you for sharing. Hugs from California. Stephanie
That's amazing. I find Kaffes fabric too bright and busy so don't particularly like/appreciate it. But you have done such a wonderful job at taking that busyness and calming it down so that the beauty of the Kaffes fabric can be admired, appreciated and even perhaps loved by those of us who need a calmer item. You, Jennifer and Vicki have brought out the best in the Kaffes fabric to the point I wish I could have that quilt. It is so stunning. Well done. Amazing job.
Oh my what a wonderful quilt story! I was thinking toward the end you would gift it back. I love your videos thanks for sharing this beautiful story. I hope Shirley feels all the love from all of us ❤️
Thank you for sharing the journey of this quilt. I have kept some shirts from loved ones and have wanted to make ‘loved already’ quilts for family with them as they would already be soft. Thanks for your examples. I love wearing linen because of the softness of it too. I will be mixing everything soft and washed because of your sharings. Thank you so much. That is truly a gift too.
So amazing I'm at a loss for words, but the tears are flowing The collaboration, the giving back, never mind the wondrous quilt itself! One of the best quilt stories ever!
I love Kaffe! The first quilt I made for my son and DIL was Kaffe and black and white fabrics. It's been my fav so far! Thanks for the beautiful video!
I love this quilt. I was also wondering if you use shirts for binding and how to get the most yardage from them. Quilting is such wonderful therapy and much cheaper than a psychiatrist.
I do use shirts for binding (almost always!) Here's a video I did a while back that explains how much binding is in a shirt and how to approach cutting shirts for binding: ruclips.net/video/s9pSkPtSF6w/видео.htmlsi=zbth5emKRwTEPOmd
From start to finish, the top and the backing: what an awesome project! The journey you shared shows how much quilters process fabrics... as much as quilts do transform us. ❤
My two cents worth is the same as all the others, my goodness, all I needed was to mess up m make up as I what headed out to a church function ! Bless you, I knew that was what you were going to say, I'll give it to Shirley, no surprise there. I was thinking the verry same thing, There really was nothing else to do , I know it will bring her peace, show her love and she will feel those things every time she snuggles with i that quilt. Here is another one of your quilts to use as prime example of what to do next.
I've lost count of how many quilts I love more after quilting. Your first Kaffe quilt finish is my favorite colors, and makes me like Kaffe fabrics a little more!
I have my very small hoard of Kaffe fabrics in my "special" tote. I take them out and admire them often but still haven't come up with a proper way to use them. I'm getting closer, but not yet. Love how you are respecting and returning the love. ❣
I whole heartily agree with everything you said about this quilt. I too enjoy and admire Kaffe Fasset fabrics, but find them too busy and bright for my tastes. I love looking at them, I love how the colors and patterns look together, for me they just don’t make my heart sing enough to want to invest the time to figure out how to work with it. I know if I cut the pieces small enough that would work, but let’s face it, Kaffe demands larger pieces to show off what and how he does with the patterns and designs. The linen back is pretty darn fabulous and I am not a grey person in any way shape or form. Bravo Cathy, bravo!! Great job with the quilt, great job over coming your hesitancy to use it. Bravo!
I always enjoy our Friday mornings together ; me with my coffee and you with your beautiful quilts ! What a lovely tale of the Purple Kaffe 💜 Paying it forward is always a blessing to both participants, right ?
What a beautiful quilt! I love the quilting that your long armer used and yes, I agree, it has elevated the finished product. It is fully reversible! Such a gift! Also as usual, your Friday morning humour is a great end to a week or start to the weekend.
Now, this is coming from a Kaffe LOVER.........I LOVE YOUR QUILT!!!!!!! OH, MY!!!! You eefinitely outdid yourself, and the quilting is perfect. I am very impressed.
I love this story so much for multiple reasons. The connections and relationships that quilting has brought to you and to all of us. The delightful serendipities of finding those shirts! Your appreciation of how the quilting elevated your design (I LOVE a pieced back and especially love this one!). Your willingness to work outside your comfort zone and then discovering the joy there. Growth happens at our edges, so if we never hang out there or are unwilling to push our edges, growth will be very slow. Growth takes courage and you have it in spades! Thomas Merton writes "What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.” While most would say Merton is talking about bigger things than quilting, I believe his words apply here. Sometimes it's the small things that add up to the big things. You and Shirley are the illustrative example of courage and love! YAY!
Sister, thank you for this. Merton is one of my very favorites.❤️ I'm humbled and honored by your words; and I agree that the small things add up to the big things! Also, you are such a blessing to me. 🥰
I love Kaffe Fasset! Stunning quilt. Good humans, we can never have enough of them. This quilt is a meant to be labour of love and friendship, bravo to everyone. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😻
Good morning from PA! 💕💗💕 the quilt & LOVE that Shirley is getting it!!!! I love every part of it & the enthusiasm everyone brought to the finished GIFT!!! May GOD continue to bless each one of you. And may GOD wrapped His arms & all of your arms around Shirley when she wraps up in “SHIRLEY’S QUILT”!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💗💕
Cathy, you are such a beautiful person! I haven't been following you for long as I am a beginner quilter but I can tell you that my life is better for finding your channel! You are blessed to have this talent as I am blessed to be learning from you! Thank you! God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
Dear Cathy
I was thrilled to hear about every aspect of the process of putting this wonderful expression of love and caring among friends. When I heard you say you aren’t quite a convert I started scanning my brain and wondered what would put you over the edge to become a convert. Then you said you were gifting the quilt to me! WHAT??!!!
I cried for two hours. And then I read the comments and sniffled some more. What a timely gift!! I was recently in hospital for a minor problem which has put me significantly behind in my journey. I’m am blessed that I’m not seriously ill and am also blessed to be recovering so quickly now.
And even more excited to receive your most generous gift.
I can hardly wait!!
I have said it before, and I will say it again: I love a challenge! I could not be more grateful to you for sharing your love of Kaffe and the fabrics that inspired not just this quilt but another one too (and I have another in my mind!) So many things have come out of making this quilt: growth for me as a quilter, so many thoughts on how I'd like to use the fabrics, the fun I had playing with color, and of course, the relationship we have now that started with your generosity and desire to share. What a blessing! ❤️
@@TheCatBirdQuilts One more question. Have you heard of Tula pink?? I love her fabrics and colours but the little animals in some of her prints scare me half to death
As a child i had many times of illness and could see little faces and animals in the wallpaper and curtains in my room. So they intrigue and terrify me at the same time. !! Summer will soon be gone and we will be moving again so that’s when I’ll do another stash dive for you
@@kukumrocks I have heard of Tula Pink and YES, my goodness such weird and interesting prints!! I can’t wait to see what you send me next! 🤩❤️
The Purple Kaffe quilt is gorgeous! When you started talking about your friend Shirley and then said “it is Shirley’s quilt”, it touched my heart. Such a special gift for everyone who was involved in the creating of this quilt
Yes... crying at the end because I'm sure when you received these fabrics you didn't know comforting Shirley would be part of this quilt's story... and neither did she... and that's why quilting can be a surprising & powerful expression of love...
All I can say is Wow! So beautiful. May it comfort Shirley with God's love through the creative hearts of Cathy, Vicki and Jennifer. That's what the art of quilting is all about.
Yes!! and Amen!
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TRUTH❣️
Many quilters are reluctant to give up their quilts. Many quilters give them all away. You are a generous soul and give most of yours away. The difference in you and most quilters is that you have a fantastic quilt diary, in video form, that you can visit any time you want! Your videos tell the whole quilt story. I suspect in your later years you will watch these videos a lot!
Oh my, what a beautiful collaborative. A great gift to uplift another. Prayers that your gift brings peace to its recipient. Thanks again for all you Paul and the gang do for the quilting community.
Thank you, Chris!❤️ It was wonderful working together with my friend and Vicki---and of course Shirley who started the whole thing off with the fabric!
The purple Kaffe is STUNNING! What a beautiful story, journey, and result. May Shirley be blessed by it.
“Shirley’s Quilt” WHEW! My eyes are leaking…😢 You did a beautiful job with this along with your sister quilters. I love quilt stories and this is a beautiful one. Thank you for sharing your heart with us! Love ya sis! 💕
Wow. I am sure there is not a dry eye in the house. Your whole guild is sending prayers, love, and support to Shirley and gratitude to you. I'm sure I speak for all of us when I say we all admire this quilt journey and learned so much along the way. ❤🇨🇦
Thank you, Diane! ❤️
Returning it to Shirley is the sweetest thing ever!!! Such lovely generosity!
This quilt should be called "Don't call me Shirley" (Airplane! movie 1980)
I’m crying. Such a beautiful quilt story. And I absolutely trust my quilter to choose what it best to my quilts.
I love your stories, your heart and how God leads and blesses. So much joy and love in this quilt, both given and received. All blessings to you and Paul as you bring joy to the world.
Emergent Properties!!!! Your quilt is a fabulous (“quilty” and artistic) example of this fascinating phenomenon that occurs when seemingly unrelated divergent “things” come together to create surprisingly and entirely new properties in a system, or in this case, a “quilty creation”!
As a retired science teacher, the “Purple Kaffe Quilt” project gives me all of the feelings of awe and wonder I’d experience when teaching emergent properties within biological systems! I love it!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I think the critical components were adding the pieced linen backing and your friend executing the perfect quilting design! An absolutely magical combination! Then, realizing that the same sweet friend who gifted the fabric could use the quilt hug at the exact time it was completed is utterly perfect!!❤
I’m certain that your sweet friend will experience all of the joy and comfort that is intended and needed now by receiving this gift. I have them simply by watching your video. I’ll bet you didn’t expect to give a retired science teacher so much joy watching the emergent properties of your quilt appear in today’s video! 🤣🤓👍🏼
Thanks Cathy and Paul 🥰
Once again you have risen to a challenge and come out victorious.🏅And now, passing the quilt on to Shirley to wrap herself in comfort and love and to bring her peace, because that’s what quilts do. A lovely thoughtful, kind of a full circle, gift from 3 talented women.
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Cathy, your video today brightened many folks who have observed your process as well as your thoughtfulness toward your friend, to meet a need in her life, such warmth to our hearts, gratefulness as well to see empathy met with such a generous response (real action). Thank you for sharing today with us all.
That turned out beautiful and Shirley will love it! ❤ God’s blessings to you and your team Cathy! 🙏
I kept thinking all the way through, "Yes! Yes! Yes!". You are so good at letting us share your joy, joy that the quilters' world truly understands. There must be thousands of quilters out there that followed your story sharing your excitement all the way. Thank you for letting us hold The Purple Kaffe close for a while.
Well put.
A great example of collectiv iintelligence! Everyone brought an ingredient to the recipie and the result ist a delicious organic quilt, that looks like 100 years old of love! What a great story, from the generosity that builds friendship, that allows you to jump over your own limits and discover new possibilities of beauty until the love you give back! The quilt is just gorgeous but the story behind make it even more special. No doubt it will cheer your friend up! 💗
Great quilt! Great story! There's a blogger I follow that uses a lot (A LOT!) of Kaffe fabrics and puts them together in such interesting combinations that I'm in awe and I've bought some Kaffe to try myself. Your quilt has me seeing that they don't all have to be set together to get a great quilt look. I've only found you recently and am slowly catching up with previous videos and accumulating a stash of shirts. Even a couple of linen. (not much of that in the Northeast). I also appreciate the effort Paul makes with inserts and definitions and pictures for your videos.
Ah-hah! You proved my point; that being, if you like your flimsy before you quilt it, you're going to love it after it's quilted. You clearly LOVE that quilt, now. It is, indeed, beautiful!!! The longarmer couldn't have selected a better quilt design. Finally, how gracious of you to give the quilt to the person who gave you the Kaffe fabric. You have such a beautiful soul.
Amen to everything that everyone said to you! This is one of the precious treasures of being part of the quilting community! Blessings to you!
Addendum: I hope Kaffe and Brandon come across this video. I think it would be gratifying for them to see all of the love generated through working with and giving these fabrics. In fact, I’m going to try to find their contact info and send it to them. Such a beautiful story.
I have always loved Kaffe Fassett - his knitwear designs and then his fabrics and quilts. I appreciate how you took these fabrics and really made them your own; I also appreciate how you used your quilting community to make a work of art that is so much more than the sum of each person's contribution. Shirley's quilt is a gift that will continue for years.
Loved hearing how you tackled a project with fabric that is not your natural habitat! Stunning result. "Shirley's quilt". 🥲 Wishing Shirley all the very best.
Thanks, Samantha! ❤️
This quilt turned out so amazing. I'm not a "convert" either...I have used KF maybe twice. It's way to expensive for me. Anyway, I love your quilt, and the quilting did beautify your work!
Absolutely stunning quilt! Such a beautiful gift you made for Shirley. 💕
I just love this quilt , the colors , the shirts ,the linen backing design and the quilting ,omg, so much goodness. I really love the story and the beautiful collaboration of talented people that brought it to life. May it bless Shirley and everyone it touches with joy, positivity and peace today. Thank you Cathy .😊
What an awesome presentation and such an incredibly beautiful quilt. First time viewer from Canada. Thank you
Oh Kathy! Having watched you all this time I instinctively knew where you were going! You have wrapped Shirley in love. There is no greater gift! Happy tears all around! Thank you for bringing light into the world ❣️
I adore quilts that are made with linen. They feel so good to me! And I love crinkly quilts. My great aunt taught me how to quilt and she always used flannel as backing so I did that for years...and then I tried linen for a summer quilt and now all the winter/fall quilts I make have flannel backs and all my spring/summer quilts will have linen backs. And I too have to talk myself out of just using linen...because it's more annoying to sew...but the results are so fabulous...❤❤❤
Delightful story with a delightful ending. You brought tears to my eyes. I bet you did to her eyes, too. I have PLENTY of gaffe, I don't have linen shirts but I do have a collection of Essex linen that will fill the bill. I'm making a couple of these. One to donate to a very worthy cause, and one just for me. Thanks, Kathy.
I have a lot of the warm Kaffe colors, the yellows, the oranges and the reds. I love it but I’ve been paralyzed to pick a pattern. I worry it will not do justice to the fabric. This video has calmed my nerves and made me realize that the simpler pattern really allows the fabulous prints to shine. It is now going to be my next project.
An absolutely Gorgeous Quilt. It is perfectly complete. Congratulations to everyone who had a part in your vision. May Shirley enjoy many hours snuggled underneath it 😊
Good morning from Canyon, TX! I love watching your videos! The purple Kaffe is gorgeous (I’m a bright and bold fabric lover). I also liked seeing that someone else likes to machine bind quilts. I look forward to your next fun video!😁🤗
Thank you, Linda! ❤️
You have come up with a work of art. Wow. I like the back better than the front. But for quilts, it is all about the quilting. Te binding is rhe icing. Beautiful.
Everything about this is just so wonderful!!! 😍👏🏻🫶🏻
Oh my word! So so beautiful! And I absolutely love the back! Wow
How beautiful, Cathy. I mean the story, but also the quilt. I've got a Kaffe quilt in the works as well, 1" hexagon EPP. I say that with trepidation, because I'm not really a sewist and this will probably take me AGES.
But what fun you will have through the ages!! 😘
Your quilt is beautiful. ❤❤❤ Thank you for the inspiration. I also have some Kaffe fabrics I adore but not sure what to make with them. A few years ago I made my daughter a KAFFE throw and she loves it, it’s purple too. I made large flying geese 3x6. It’s so beautiful. I’m guess I need to start cutting 😊.
I enjoyed watching the story of *The Purple Kaffe* from the first video. The end result is stunning, and reminds me to not get caught up in the details or doubts of the process of whatever challenges we face, but carry on with hope and trust to allow the blessing to come. Thank you Cathy for inspiring us with what you do. 💜
Love it. I have a fat quarter bundle of Kaffe I have no idea what to do with. I have not used linen, but you are making me want to try it.
Just Wow!! It is like looking through a window on to a garden of flowers on pretty much all of the blocks! I am working on some quilts (some inspired by you and your channel). Unfortunately, I have osteoarthritis in both thumb joints (which impacts my wrist and forearm) and is quite painful. Have to pace myself. Will be having surgery and will have to be in a cast for 6 weeks! My Occupational Therapist says that the surgery is very successful.... Can hardly wait to post a quilt that has been "commissioned" by a friend when it is done. P.S. you are so lucky to find such wonderful linen fabrics when you are "hunting" at the thrift stores!
I love Kaffe Fassett fabric and have used it in several quilts. Yours is truly beautiful, the colors are amazing, the quilting wonderful. My favorite part of quilting is taking it out of the dryer and seeing it so soft and crinkly. I do not give any quilts to their intended recipients until they are washed.
Same here! A quilt is rarely back in my house more than 24 hours before it’s been bound and IMMEDIATELY into the wash. It’s the dryer door opening moment that is the pinnacle of the process for me.
No quit now leaves my house to a new home that is not first washed and faced it’s first trial by dryer.
That’s gorgeous. Loved the story. New subscriber here.
I love, love, love your purple quilt. A simple pattern can be so stunning when the colors are carefully chosen, as you always do. Really inspiring to me.
I so enjoyed hearing your (the collective "your") journey with this quilt and these fabrics. Heart warming.
Love the story. Love the simplicity of pattern with artful quilting. I am a huge fan of thrifting. It can inspire in so many ways. Thank you for sharing. Hugs from California. Stephanie
That's amazing. I find Kaffes fabric too bright and busy so don't particularly like/appreciate it. But you have done such a wonderful job at taking that busyness and calming it down so that the beauty of the Kaffes fabric can be admired, appreciated and even perhaps loved by those of us who need a calmer item. You, Jennifer and Vicki have brought out the best in the Kaffes fabric to the point I wish I could have that quilt. It is so stunning. Well done. Amazing job.
Thank you for sharing this quilting journey. It is so generous of you to give it away
Kaffe and Brandon are going to be in Madison, Al in October 2024 at Sweet Home Quilting shop for 3 days.
Don't you know that place will be packed out!! 🤩
Oh my what a wonderful quilt story! I was thinking toward the end you would gift it back. I love your videos thanks for sharing this beautiful story. I hope Shirley feels all the love from all of us ❤️
This made me cry! It was like a good sermon on Sunday morning.❤️🙏 Prayers for Shirley. ❤️🙏
OMG! It's sooooo beautiful 😍 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I don't even know what I love the most, front or back 🤔😍🥰🤩
I love anything bright and crazy. The challenge for me would be to make something out of neutrals and solids. 😅
Thank you for sharing the journey of this quilt. I have kept some shirts from loved ones and have wanted to make ‘loved already’ quilts for family with them as they would already be soft. Thanks for your examples. I love wearing linen because of the softness of it too. I will be mixing everything soft and washed because of your sharings. Thank you so much. That is truly a gift too.
This quilt is gorgeous, & I love that you are giving it to Shirley! The fact that you love it makes it even more special! Great job & wonderful gift!
So amazing I'm at a loss for words, but the tears are flowing The collaboration, the giving back, never mind the wondrous quilt itself! One of the best quilt stories ever!
Very nice!!! So many beautiful colors!
I love Kaffe! The first quilt I made for my son and DIL was Kaffe and black and white fabrics. It's been my fav so far! Thanks for the beautiful video!
I love this quilt. I was also wondering if you use shirts for binding and how to get the most yardage from them. Quilting is such wonderful therapy and much cheaper than a psychiatrist.
I do use shirts for binding (almost always!) Here's a video I did a while back that explains how much binding is in a shirt and how to approach cutting shirts for binding:
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From start to finish, the top and the backing: what an awesome project! The journey you shared shows how much quilters process fabrics... as much as quilts do transform us. ❤
My two cents worth is the same as all the others, my goodness, all I needed was to mess up m make up as I what headed out to a church function ! Bless you, I knew that was what you were going to say, I'll give it to Shirley, no surprise there. I was thinking the verry same thing, There really was nothing else to do , I know it will bring her peace, show her love and she will feel those things every time she snuggles with i
that quilt. Here is another one of your quilts to use as prime example of what to do next.
I've lost count of how many quilts I love more after quilting. Your first Kaffe quilt finish is my favorite colors, and makes me like Kaffe fabrics a little more!
Thank you, Angela!! ❤️
I have my very small hoard of Kaffe fabrics in my "special" tote. I take them out and admire them often but still haven't come up with a proper way to use them. I'm getting closer, but not yet. Love how you are respecting and returning the love. ❣
I whole heartily agree with everything you said about this quilt. I too enjoy and admire Kaffe Fasset fabrics, but find them too busy and bright for my tastes. I love looking at them, I love how the colors and patterns look together, for me they just don’t make my heart sing enough to want to invest the time to figure out how to work with it. I know if I cut the pieces small enough that would work, but let’s face it, Kaffe demands larger pieces to show off what and how he does with the patterns and designs. The linen back is pretty darn fabulous and I am not a grey person in any way shape or form. Bravo Cathy, bravo!! Great job with the quilt, great job over coming your hesitancy to use it. Bravo!
Awesome makes me want to buy some Kaffe fabric and make a quilt. Thank you so much for sharing your quilt ❤
This was a great video! Thank you for sharing your purple kaffe quilt. Hugs from Tampa.
Your quilt is amazing. Loves the colours, the pattern and the quilting.
I absolutely love both sides of the quilt. Your choice of colours was perfect. I think your friend will be delighted with it. 😊
I love Kaffe and this quilt is gorgeous!!! Shirley will love it! Thanks for sharing.
This quilt is amazing, I have to go to the thrift store and see what the have for my Kaffe Fassett, wish to make something similar.
I love the crinkly bumpy washed look of a quilt. May have to try linen.
I always enjoy our Friday mornings together ; me with my coffee and you with your beautiful quilts ! What a lovely tale of the Purple Kaffe 💜 Paying it forward is always a blessing to both participants, right ?
What a beautiful quilt! I love the quilting that your long armer used and yes, I agree, it has elevated the finished product. It is fully reversible! Such a gift! Also as usual, your Friday morning humour is a great end to a week or start to the weekend.
Oh my, so so beautiful 😍 I got really moved and tearfull when I saw this. ❤️
I was so happy when you got that Kaffe challenge. Make Cathy squirm! You did a beautiful job!!
It is absolutely STUNNING !!!! 😍😍
I love piecing backs, but had never thought to do it this way. LOVE THIS!
This was a beautiful video in every dimension. thanks for making me cry first thing in the morning.
It is absolutely gorgeous and you can see how soft it is even on ‘film’! Well done, again!
It’s a beautiful quilt. Awesome job and I love how you did the back.
Order is joy - yes, yes, YES!!!! ⭐❤️
What a beautiful tribute. I love love LOVE that quilt. I may have to make me a similar one
Simple yet elegant work of art. Beautifully done. ✂️🧵🪡
Now, this is coming from a Kaffe LOVER.........I LOVE YOUR QUILT!!!!!!! OH, MY!!!! You eefinitely outdid yourself, and the quilting is perfect. I am very impressed.
I love this story so much for multiple reasons. The connections and relationships that quilting has brought to you and to all of us. The delightful serendipities of finding those shirts! Your appreciation of how the quilting elevated your design (I LOVE a pieced back and especially love this one!). Your willingness to work outside your comfort zone and then discovering the joy there. Growth happens at our edges, so if we never hang out there or are unwilling to push our edges, growth will be very slow. Growth takes courage and you have it in spades! Thomas Merton writes "What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.” While most would say Merton is talking about bigger things than quilting, I believe his words apply here. Sometimes it's the small things that add up to the big things. You and Shirley are the illustrative example of courage and love! YAY!
Sister, thank you for this. Merton is one of my very favorites.❤️ I'm humbled and honored by your words; and I agree that the small things add up to the big things! Also, you are such a blessing to me. 🥰
Now I need to go thrifting shirts. Great upcycling!
Love this so much. Pefect color gray to "meet up and hold" those wild colors.
Well done to all!
Beautiful quilt, beautiful story! ❤
I was not mentally and emotionally prepared so I wouldn't cry this morning. You are who I want to be when I grow up.
Oh my! That is a very high compliment---I'm humbled and honored.❤️
STUNNING QUILT. Thank you for sharing!
It’s so beautiful! I’m sure Shirley will love it as much as you do!
Beautiful 😊 thanks for sharing
I love Kaffe Fasset! Stunning quilt. Good humans, we can never have enough of them. This quilt is a meant to be labour of love and friendship, bravo to everyone. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😻
Gorgeous! Was the gray linen backing from a sheet? Perfect all the way around!
It was from a curtain panel! Imagine my joy when I found it at a thrift store! 🤩
Good morning from PA! 💕💗💕 the quilt & LOVE that Shirley is getting it!!!! I love every part of it & the enthusiasm everyone brought to the finished GIFT!!! May GOD continue to bless each one of you. And may GOD wrapped His arms & all of your arms around Shirley when she wraps up in “SHIRLEY’S QUILT”!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💗💕
Thank you, Kathy! ❤️ And good morning from Alabama---I've got a special place in my heart for PA (our first child was born there!) 🥰
🤓🤩😍🥳 this video was everything! Love it!!!
Cathy, you are such a beautiful person! I haven't been following you for long as I am a beginner quilter but I can tell you that my life is better for finding your channel! You are blessed to have this talent as I am blessed to be learning from you! Thank you! God bless you and your family 🙏🙏🙏
Gorgeous! Love to see you broaden your horizons! Great job! Love, love, love!
Good morning from Louisville, KY!
Morning, Garnetta!