Pleated Boxes Pillow

The Indy Modern Quilt Guild had a challenge a few meetings ago where we each brought in a fat quarter in one of three colors, orange, yellow or aqua. We then tore them into strips and were asked to make something with whatever fabric we took.



So, that was several months ago. You wanna know how often I'd thought about these strips? Maybe once.

Until I saw the cute baby quilt whipped up by Tisha in these fabrics. It was so awesome! I knew I needed to revisit my fabrics again.

So happy I did!



To make the pleated boxes pillow, I started off sewing the fabric strips into a stacked books quilt block, and then I sliced, and sliced again into 3" squares. I took the most colorful squares, and interspersed them with all-white squares, for a total of four columns of 7 blocks each.

I then cut a 3" strip (the fabric rows that are gathered below) and used it to join the columns. I borrowed the gathered idea from a technique I used making a dress last summer. You just iron messy pleats into the fabric, then sew straight lines to keep the gathers in place. The back is an envelope pillow back, my favorite way to make pillows.



It was really liberating to jump right in and stitch up something without knowing the end result. I keep thinking there is some metaphor for life in there. :)

This pillow is listed in my Etsy shop.

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Heartsy Sale-a-Bration

Just getting back from vacation, and I'm getting ready for my long-awaited Heartsy sale. It goes live tomorrow, Monday, January 16!

Newly listed Echino earrings

For $10, you can buy a voucher to my shop worth $23!

For $10, Heartsy V.I.P. members can get a voucher worth $33.  

To take advantage of this deal:

1. Sign up for Heartsy (It's free!)

2. Purchase the deal on January 15 (for VIPs), 16 or 17. You'll receive instructions on how to redeem it at my Etsy shop, with all proceeds going towards our adoption fund.

A sincere thanks to every person who has supported me in this earrings project!
I could not have dreamed or done any of this without you.

 

Also a note on Heartsy: I am a Heartsy V.I.P., and I highly recommend it for regular savings on handmade goodness. As a V.I.P., you'll also get early access to the sale, so you can buy a voucher TODAY (Sunday) before they sell out. You can also cancel the V.I.P. membership at any time if you find you are not using it.  Happy browsing!

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Featured at Craft. You.

I'm on vacation this week, but thanks to scheduled posting, it appears that I am "here." Excited to be featured today at Craft.You., a new blog by the multi-talented creator/blogger/author Margot Potter!

Margot had some great questions for me (and some doozies, including how I try to balance my creative hobbies with work and family time.) Click here to check out the Q and A.

Thanks Margot!

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