Valentines Gift for the Hubby '12

This year for the husband I bought him a recliner.

Well to help it be more of a Valentines Gift I thought of making it a pillow.
(pillow case actually)

Our colors throughout the house are earth tones with a touch of purple thrown in for me (my "make me smile" color)

I took This Quilted Pillow and tweaked the measurements to fit a standard pillow.


I elongated the sides by doubling them as I went along.
I sandwiched the top and stitched it down.
The back is one solid piece.




Not only am I not good math to figure out the measurements first- I was on a new to me machine, with 2 new feet- I received the 1/4 in foot and the walking foot this weekend soooooo here I was trying them all out on a gift.


Luckily for me the hubby is out of town until the 22nd so I had a few extra days to squeeze the pillow in :)

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Scrappy WIP is going........ backwards! Yes backwards. None of my tall rows lined up right with my short rows :/ so here I am seeing the rainbow way to much as I unstitch each row one by one. I've figured piecing it back together in groups of 4 - tall tall short short. As you can see on the left things are lining up much better this way. I did find the perfect fabric in my stash to use as the backing.

Scrappy Quilt wip

Step 3 done
(not in the picture but it is now)
6.5 x ....rows are sewn
1.5 x .... rows are sewn
I'm really liking the look of it, it is child sized,
now for backing thoughts, I looked through all my yardage, I'm going to go Gender Neutral with this, the backing is black based with an array of colors making up the ABC's with coordinating pictures, perfect match for the scrap solids


Step 2

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One of my goals this year-
learn more about quilting

First Quilt Block

I am so happy with how it turned out.
I lost 1/2 an inch some where but I added the small trim to the edge to make up for it. 12x12

I was quit impressed with how quick it came together

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Can we say "Holy Scrapage" .....

I'll be trying my hardest to follow along with SassyBlog's 12x12 scrappy year.

The picture today shows Step 1 me filing through my scraps so I can organize them by color.

Anyone care to come by and help?