This pattern is one that I fully intended to start on Diane’s birthday (January 30th) but for some reason I just couldn’t settle down to doing it. When I mentioned to Christy that I was going to make one she said she’d like one too. The project came up on my reminder list in March but, again, I put it off. With Christy visiting at the end of the month I thought I had better get at it.

The pattern was from the internet and there weren’t a lot of details on how to do it but the instructions for the measurements were good. They could have been a bit smaller in length from back to front but my test pattern fit well enough that I decided not to change it.

I pulled several fat quarters from my jungle collection that was purchased to make Elizabeth’s eel table topper. I couldn’t help but think of the Tiger King as I was putting this together. There are three different tiger prints in this. If I’d been a bit more careful with thread colour this could have been reversible.

I made very few changes for the cover I made for Christy; I just changed the way I did a few of the things since I knew how it was supposed to go together.