I made a bunch of pillows this weekend. 3, to be exact. It was great. Lindsey and I found the pattern on Alicia Paulson's website and I think it changed my life. Alicia calls it a magic patchwork technique and she is not joking. The pattern was well worth the $6 it cost to download it. In the pictures above you can see the works in progress. We started with a trip to Candlelite Quilts to select our fabrics. Lindsey has a great eye for colors and patterns. She went with yellows and blues for hers and I chose greens and reds for mine. Then we stopped in to JoAnn to get pillow forms, interfacing, and piping. I'd never worked with piping before so I was nervous about that aspect of the project. Then we cut squares and about an hour and a half later we had these. Amazing! That's Lindsey, there working away on her perfect-for-a-summer-cottage pillow. (Work in progress photos credit to Maria.) Unfortunately the photo we took of her final product is slightly blurred but you get the idea.
Anyway, my pillow was so popular in my household that the kids fought over it and we decided it would be fun to let them make their own. So back to Candlelite Quilts I went, both kids in tow, on Saturday morning. They each selected 4 fabrics, though they would have come home with about 20 each if I had let them. You really should see them in action. Annika has a good eye (she's 6!) and she selected the greens that you see in the pillow above with stripes and dots. She's good, huh? And Gunnar is a little more bold in his selections. He started with black prints and added in some vibrant colors. He has a rather eclectic fabric stash at home. I was determined not to intervene in their selection or layout. I didn't. You can see the results.
It's a fun, fast project. I highly recommend it!
Hope you had a wonderful weekend.
