As much as I like my job, there is just something so decadent and exciting about a snow day! Imagine, staying home from work on a Tuesday afternoon - what joy! It was a perfect time to finish working on a little project I had started on the weekend.
A couple years ago, I picked up a fun holiday print in an after-Christmas sale at Fat Quarter Shop and all along, I knew I wanted to use it to make pillowcases for my bed. It only took me three years, but I got them made last weekend. After that, I thought it would be fun to make a pillow to go with them. I foraged around in my scrap bins until I had a bunch of neutrals and some colourful scraps to go nicely with my pillowcase focus print. I followed Toni's directions to make Skinny Churn Dash blocks and they turned out so cute! I did some straight line quilting across the top, added a quilted envelope closure for the back and in short order, my new pillow was done. Here it is, nestled against the pillowcases I took my inspiration from.
What a fun snow day! I hope I get to do it again sometime.
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Pillowcases and cushion both look great! Regrettably, I was stuck at work for both Monday and Tuesday in the storm (I'm in Calgary). In my neighbourhood, there were snow drifts half as high as a city bus. (Naturally, there wasn't a whole lot of transit getting through! I had to walk home from the train both days - it's about 20 minutes in good weather, took a bit more wading through all that snow!) All day at work I kept wishing I was at home working on one of my projects!
ReplyDeleteoh I love this! Really need to make some more churn dash!
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE those pillowcases for your bed, and the gorgeous pillow is just fabulous! I have some fabrics from the same line as your pillowcases and might just have to copy that idea...pillowcases are such a fun and practical way to fit Christmas fabrics into daily life!
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