Scout really did do her best to keep me from finishing this quilt. Her consolation prize will be knowing that there will be hundreds of her hairs sewn into the finished product. She has also managed to take over the batting which is laying out on the spare bed upstairs. I want to get it to puff up a little from being in a bag, and she wants to get hair on it. We are both going to be winners.
Despite an admirable amount of resistance from the cat movement, I was able to finish piecing the Thai quilt. The backing is cut and ironed and ready to go. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to rent the long-arm machine at Bayside until Friday so it will have to wait until then to be put together. I did play around on my home sewing machine to see if I could take care of it here. However, my stitches are erratic, apparently I have no hand-eye coordination, and I really don't want to do stitch in the ditch for this quilt, so no home quilting of this. I am very hopeful that I will be able to quilt it and get the binding done next weekend before I leave for Wisconsin, but we will see. I am very happy with the colors and how bright this quilt is. The last strips I added do demonstrate that things aren't quite as straight as they should be, but I plan to keep my head up and not focus on the imperfections. 
Puny human, I am amused by your attempts to finish piecing your quilt. Now, scritch my forehead. Scritch it!
The towers are completely done! You can see that they have a green-gray border and have a purple background at the top and bottom. All I have to do is piece the towers together by adding purple strips between the towers and also at the top and bottom. I will probably be able to do that today after I finish cleaning and making a sun-dried tomato pasta sauce. And all this because the NFL insists on showing games today that I have no interest in.
Also, Sammy has received a clean bill of health from the vet and is
ready to continue his pirate ways. Whew.
