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Kitty Cushion

Posted on August 1, 2017 | 4 comments

“Granddaughter, through you I see the future.
Through me, you’ll see the past.
In the present, we’ll love one another as long as these moments last.” – Unknown

This past weekend, I was blessed to have my son and his family visit. The last time that they were able to visit was back in April.

Having my 10 year old granddaughter with me, meant that we could finish her cushion project that we began the last time that she was here.

You can see the beginning of it in this blog post.

A. chose the fabrics, threads, and the applique. She also did most of the sewing (I helped a little bit with those eyes). I simply encouraged her along.

She’s a happy little camper, and I am a proud Grandma!

“A granddaughter fills her grandmother’s heart with rainbows!” -Unknown

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I missed July’s pillow challenge over at QuiltShopGal’s blog. Between working overtime, a vacation (a fabulous, and short, one week stay with my son and his family), and a horrendous fire season in my neck of the woods, I’m lucky that I managed to finish a pillow in August.

But finish I have!

The expert this month is the very talented teacher, and author, Angela Walters. Definitely check out her blog, website and classes!

I designed this pillow using EQ7 software. It will be a Christmas gift for a young grandson.

I’m using one of my favorite threads, Aurifil 50 weight, for my quilting.

I started my free motion quilting right off by sewing through my Supreme Slider. Ha, ha!

At least I caught the mistake early. I know…I should have taped the slider down. Never skip this step!

I finished quilting without the thing.

Here’s a couple of close-ups (I need to work on getting even stitches):

And a lousy photo of the back (the tension is good, but the photographer really needs to bone up):

A look at the back of the pillow with a covered zipper insert:

One more look at the front (by the way, I have too small of a pillow form in there…it’ll look better with the right size):

I have chosen to do Option 1 from the August challenge. I participated in the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge and you can see my blog post using Angela Walter’s tile quilting here.

I am linking up to this year’s challenge here.

Previous pillows/challenges:

Joy Pillow

Initial Pillow No. 1

Initial Pillow No. 2

Initial Pillow No. 3

Initial Pillow No. 4

Initial Pillow No. 5

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Initial Pillow No. 5

Posted on June 29, 2015 | 22 comments

For this month’s pillow, I have taken my inspiration from Diane Gaudynski’s Guide to Machine Quilting. I have owned this excellent, comprehensive book for many a year.

Diane is a very talented award winning quilter and I admire her work very much!

You can find lots of eye candy and free motion quilting tips on Diane’s blog!

Diane is an elegant, traditional quilter and uses lots of feathers and echo quilting. I saw this feather on page 69:

And on page 31 of Diane’s book:

I drew a version of it with a blue marker on a white tone-on-tone cotton fabric (I would have used silk, or sateen, if I had any, but couldn’t find any in my stash of fabrics.)

The ‘J’ is the initial of the name of a good friend to whom I will be giving this pillow.

A layer of batting is stitched with water soluble thread, and then carefully trimmed.

I wish I were better at taking photos, especially of white on white!

Since my friend likes pink, I am using a 40 weight pink variegated Aurifil thread for the feathers and the letter. The rest of the wholecloth quilting is done with 50 weight white Aurifil thread.

You can begin to see the texture forming!

Finished and washed:

Detail:

Like the other pillows that I have been making, this one is simple with a covered zipper.

Last look: