Friday, December 7, 2012

Two Pillow Finish

This past week I’ve finished up two Christmas pillows. 

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Katie of SwimBikeQuilt posted a modern Christmas tree wall-hanging/pillow on the Free Spirit blog this week.  The tutorial was easy to follow. 

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It was amazing to see how the texture of the straight line quilting changed the total look of the Christmas tree.  I decided to bind the pillow after adding the envelope back.  This gray polka dot fabric is one of my favorites. 

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This Ho Ho Ho pillow is straight from the book “Pretty in Patchwork Holidays” by Quilt Dad.  I am giving away a copy of the book and 16 fat quarters here, and there are a few more hours to enter the giveaway.

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The fabrics are mostly Connecting Threads and a few favorites from my stash thrown in.

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I used Finca Presencia Perle thread size 8 to quilt around each letter.  I didn’t have an embroidery hoop at first, but I bought one after doing two of the letters and it made the stitching a lot easier.

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The Santa buttons were the perfect finishing touch!

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The pattern suggests using linen for the back, but I substituted this cute bird fabric I’ve had in my stash.

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So now I think our living room is sufficiently decorated for the holidays!

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What have you been working on?  Any Christmas projects?  Linking up to Finish It Up Friday on Crazy Mom Quilts.  Have a wonderful weekend!

10 comments:

  1. Love!! I need to make some Christmas pillows this weekend. My couch looks bare.

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  2. Lovely work, I really like the 1/2 quilting and binding on the Xmas Tree cushion - very effective :)

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  3. Too sweet! Your hand embroidery "makes" this pillow. I also like that you used your colors and it still looks like Christmas.

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  4. Love the cushions and the Santa buttons are really cute!

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  5. That Christmas tree pillow is ADORABLE!
    I love your version of the HO-Ho-Ho pillow too!!!

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  6. both cushions are gorgeous! I love the hand stitching and buttons on the hohoho!

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  7. Both pillows turned out perfect! The tree is my fav :)

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  9. I love your Christmas pillows. I really want to make some holiday pillows, but my lovable, but somewhat scroogey, husband thinks it might be too much Christmas in the living room. I would just ignore him, but I over booked myself for present sewing anyways...

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  10. Love both of your pillows, so happy!!!

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