sinituulia, I've been slowly working on the cat quilt. Top-stitching one little bit or two, pulling the threads to the reverse and finishing them. Put on the binding but didn't take the basting threads off yet. This variegated thread I had perfectly matches! Mom has seen it and likes how it looks and it looks less trash to me, so that's good. Still very hard to get decent photos of.
A photo centred on one of the large cat prints. It is a kitten done in a sort of stylised grid of triangles, with a black tail and white chest. The large block has been top stitched with similar random triangles made by crossing the entire block, hitting an edge, and turning at an angle. This, also, takes roughly about forever. Looks pretty nice though, even unironed.
Close-up of the binding and border going between the block groups. It is blue, with top stitching done in a blue thread that travels between teal, dark blue, gray blue and electric blue. There is both straight stitch and zigzag. It looks pretty nice, but is also covered in errant cat hairs. There is a hand sewn line of tacking thread along it.