How to Make a Kitty Quilt - Step 7

You've got your pieces, now you have some fun. Start putting them together. For a kitty quilt, you need 4 rows of 4. So you start laying them out and moving them around until you like the way it looks.
It could look like this:
or this:

Mom says you want to avoid making "blobs" or areas that are too dark, or too much one color. You'll know. After that, you make your own rules. Mom likes to move your eye around, and connect the colors or patterns somehow. She doesn't like to have too many light areas near the edges, she says it looks like the quilt has a hole in it. But there aren't any rules. You decide. The same 16 pieces could make several different quilts, all good looking. It's up to you.

Mom is gonna launch two boxes of kitty quilts tomorrow. One box of flying quilts is going to Whiskeronsin. Another is going to Connecticat, but that's so close to New Hampster, I bet those quilts are gonna ride in a big truck.


And to Karen Jo, who wondered....
YES! I am VERY GOOD at scrambling up the pieces Mom has set out on the floor. She takes pictures of them, though, so she can put them together the way she wants. But even then she sometimes goofs. Heh.