A few years ago I took a workshop with Melissa Averinos called Making Cat Faces with Melissa. You can see the cat faces I made in the workshop here.
I had originally thought I would put them all together into a quilt. After much thought I knew the quilting needed to be very dense. In the end, I decided it would be better to quilt them each individually.
I have turned a few of them into pillows. These were a graduation gift for one of my nieces.
The quilting is what holds all of the applique pieces to the background fabric. The quilting rows end up about 1/16th of an inch apart.
I am quite please with how these turned out.