Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Pillow In Progress

The Salt Lake Modern Quilt Guild is doing a pillow swap as part of their monthly meeting tomorrow night.  I didn’t think I’d have time to make anything so I wasn’t planning on joining in.  Then I saw a few of the pillows that some other SLMQG members were bringing for the swap and I knew I HAD to join!

So here’s my pillow in progress -   Monday night I fused some Heat n’ Bond Lite to some green scraps and cut a simple leaf shape out of each print.  Side note: aren't they pretty?  I sure have a TON of green scraps.  My bin overfloweth.

  green fabric scraps

Then I dug through my stash and found eight gray fabrics I liked -

stack of gray fabrics

and used those to make the background for the leaves.  Last night I fused the leaves and then quilted around each leaf.  I felt it needed a bit more so I added a few straight quilting lines.

pillow top in progress

This afternoon my job is to add the backing and binding!

pillow with green binding

I have to say that last night I began to wonder why I don’t make more pillows?  They’re a quick and satisfying project and I get to use pretty scraps.  It’s a win/win if you ask me.

Linking up to WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced

9 comments:

  1. I love your pillow! I just finished a small table topper with similar leaf shapes and I'm really liking the look. Isn't nice to use up scraps?
    Julie @ The Crafty Quilter

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  2. Totally adorable! My scraps are starting to overflow, hadn't thought about using them for a pillow! Great inspiration. -Michelle

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  3. I really love your pillow. Nice combo of fabrics.

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  4. You just inspired me! I have quilts everywhere but plain brown pillows on my couch. Why??? Tonight I'm diving into my stash and making nice covers. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  5. Someone is going to be very lucky! Beware...pillow making can become addictive.;)

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  6. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! I love the fabrics, colours and the quilting... The whole shebang!!!
    From another pillow addict,
    Esther
    esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com
    ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

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  7. I love this pillow! Beautiful work:)

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