Catitude Pillow: A Quarantine "Finish"

My April goal should have been pretty easy to complete, but as with most things during the quarantine it was overly optimistic.  It wasn't very hard to piece the top out of my stash;

Or have some fun quilting the cats;

Even even making a giant (19x19) pillow form out of an ancient piece of yardage and filling it with squares of batting scraps was pretty easy (I cut them into one inch squares [eyeballed, not measured] and then pack them in).

But it's still not technically done.  I couldn't find any fabric in my stash that I liked well enough to be the back.  For a mini quilt, I would have pieced something together and called it good, but since it's a pillow I wanted it to coordinate.  So on April 11th, I hopped online and bought some more of the grape grunge dots to have a cohesive finish.  As of today (April 29th) I'm still waiting for that package to arrive.  And once it does arrive, it's going to have to sit for a few days before I feel comfortable opening it.  The good news is, it should be a quick and easy finish once that happens!

I'm sure the wait will be worth it.

Eventually there will be a final, finished picture here.
OK, I forgot how hard it is to photograph pillows.
But it's done and my kids are fighting over it - double win!

So I'm giving myself a quarantine pass and calling this a finish for the April goal link-up at Elm Street Quilts.  A little grace in the time of things that are out of everyone's control.

Pattern info: Catitude Pillow from Make Modern Issue 32 (affiliate link)