My granddaughters were with me when I saw the email from Emily Taylor showcasing her newest pattern, Pop Art Pups. I knew I wanted to download one of them, but Cora insisted that I get the whole bunch.

Just like that I downloaded the patterns and printed them off. New Project!!!

Not sure why I do it, but with most of them I started with the ears.

Most of the pups were made in March while I was on vacation in Texas. I used Emily’s parchment paper technique. When I got home with them I found a perfect background fabric line at Seven Sister’s Quilt Shop. Although I did go to the shop about three times that week getting just the right color for each background.

Got the pups on their background fabrics and pieced together. Good thing I have grandkids almost everyday. Conner was the quilt holder for this one.

Deciding how to quilt it took awhile to decide. I had finished making the quilt top and snapped this picture on March 22. It wasn’t until the middle of May that I quilted it. I wanted each pup to be a star. So I stitched lines out from each one, which meant that I had a lot of starting and stopping, but I love the way it turned out.

As a bit of a side note. While in Texas I made a collage pup of a friend’s dog. I started with Emily’s Lab pup pattern and then changed it to look more like Ozzie. I did make this one on Pattern Ease because of the changes I had made from the pattern.

Ozzie has a lot of wild wiry hair, so I added some with the quilting. Since his family are avid MSU fans I added a Spartan in the corner (Thanks to my friend, Terri as I would never have MSU fabric in my stash)