Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Finished Christmas Pillow


I finished up this Christmas pillow cover yesterday. I had to take my sewing machine in for a tuneup early in December, and when I got it back home I thought I would have time to finish this up, but my machine started squeaking partway through the quilting. So it went back to the shop for another week. The second half of the quilting was squeak-free, thankfully.


I had originally thought I would make the pillow with big triangles on the front, but decided I liked the smaller ones better. I had a bunch of the large ones cut out though so I made the pillow back with them. The back pieces overlap by about 5.5" and are made of a double layer of fabric, but not quilted.
I kept the quilting pretty simple, I like it. 

I cut out a few quilt blocks while my machine was back in the shop and that's what I started working on today. I hope to have some more finished projects to share soon!

p.s. I edited my Made in 2013 post to actually show my mosaic, changes over at flickr have been messing up my blog a little bit! 

10 comments:

Mary on Lake Pulaski said...

Love your Christmas pillow! Beautiful.

Unknown said...

That is amazing. I love it. Every year I say I am going to make a tree skirt and yet I still haven't. One day. I love the pillow. Great work.

Unknown said...

I love it. For years I have said I am going to make a tree skirt and I still haven't. One day I will be productive like you. I love it, great work.

Kara said...

I love your quilting!

Judy said...

Just wonderful! My pillows are.just oiecs of fabric sewn together. My goal is to ake at least one zippered pillow this year! I agree, I like the small triangles better. Lovely!

Bouts Choisis said...

That's a lovely pillow. Did you make it from a fabric range (I don't recognise it) or use scraps? You are going to be well prepared for Christmas 2014! Lynne.

Unknown said...

So Lovely, I agree with kata, the quilting adds that extra special dimension. Wow! have to add this to my "to do when I can quilt like a pro" list

Unknown said...

Love your pillow! I like how you quilted it also, very sweet. Now you will have something new to put out next Christmas!

Grandma Rindy said...

Do you have a quilting machine or did you do this fantastic work on your regular machine

Elizabeth said...

Love the quilting!

xo -E