Design Wall Monday at Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts--lots of great stitching happening there.
After a recent whole house carpet cleaning, I reassembled the sewing room and spent some time rearranging and trying to put things out of sight--a difficult task when I have no closet and only one usable wall in the open family room I sew in. True to form, things exploded almost immediately after that attempt! I don't remember what prompted the dive into the box of leftover blocks and unfinished smalls, but suddenly I was pulling borders for pumpkin blocks made a year ago, to make into pillow covers. The blocks are about 12".
Younger daughter claimed this pumpkin and I laid out some backing options. Erica chose the stripe. I added narrow border strips of the same brown fabric as the churndash, to preserve the points as the cover bends around the pillow, not shown in this pic.
The other pumpkin in a churndash got a wider border of my favorite caramel dot. It is hard to find this color even in fall, sadly. Channel quilting just using the edge of the walking foot for spacing. The pillow back has been made and I cut binding from a reddish orange stripe print. I love decorating for Fall.
These are 2.5" squares in stacks of four and I will get a whole bunch of bonus HSTs when I sew them on the corners. I cut more than the required 80 so I will have more choices. I'm thinking I will need to lay out all the blocks, both pieced and wool, to avoid duplicate fabrics touching. But I won't drive myself crazy trying to be perfect about it!
7 comments:
I just can't do pillows; tried a few times and was exasperated! What were the pumpkins first intended to be? A quilt, wallhanging? Pillows will be a cute way to put them to use!
I love the pumpkins! Great use of odd blocks. I have started making pillow covers as well for the seasons and holidays.
Those pumpkins look like a fin way to use a few scraps.
Love those pumpkin churn dash blocks. What charming pillows they will make!
have fun with your scraps.
Aaahh, clean carpets are so nice but moving everything is a big job!
Those are really fun pumpkin blocks, and I think they will be great pillows!
I have learned that I have to cut backgrounds for applique at least a couple inches larger than called for. I never seem to get things centered up well enough and that gives me room to center them after the stitching. I like the muted colors of the project. Has a soft feeling to it.
I love your projects and agree that decorating for fall is so much fun~ the change of seasons is inspiring. I have to admit that I succumbed to temptation and have purchased the Gobble, Gobble pattern for a turkey pillow; yours was just too cute to ignore!
Such pretty pumpkins! When I start thinking about making a quilt for a season usually the season is almost over!
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