Here's a pillow that I made last year, and we are enjoying it in the living room this year:
This pillow is from the magazine American Patchwork & Quilting, December 2014. Picture is of the cover of the magazine with the pillow on the right side near the top:
Here is another picture of the pillow, designed by Tina Lewis.
The pattern has small felt dots for the snow, and I used small white buttons that I had, which was easier. I also changed the wording to "Merry Christmas" instead of "Season's Greetings" as that is my usual greeting at Christmas.
I would like to give this pattern away as a little Christmas gift to one of you. If you would like to receive this magazine with the pillow directions, here is what to do:
(1) Link to Design Wall Monday, as usual, and
(2) Provide a link back to this exact post, somewhere within your blog post. By that I mean your link should refer people to:
http://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2017/12/design-wall-monday-december-18-2017.html
and not just
http://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com
Christmas will be here in one week! I will be skipping Design Wall Monday next week (December 25th), as I will be celebrating Christmas with family, and nothing will be happening on the design wall. I will post again on the first day of 2018.
The winner of the magazine will be announced in my first post of the new year.
Looking forward to seeing what you are working on this week:
Are you ready for Christmas? I'm not, but as they say.....Christmas is coming, whether we are ready for it or not.
Today I finished this pillow, which is now on our living room couch. It was featured in a magazine, and there was a sample made up at The Attic Window, a local quilt shop here in Grand Rapids. I liked the sample, bought the magazine, and made it during the year, but just finished it today. The magazine instructions had "Happy Holidays", but I like to say "Merry Christmas" so I changed the words. Also, I don't remember what the original pattern had as snowflakes, but the sample maker had used buttons, and I liked them. So I used some of my teeny, tiny, baby purl buttons as the snowflalkes.
I have a whole jar of these baby buttons, and just love to look at them. I do like teeny, tiny things, I know.
Here is a picture of the pillow:
And a close-up of the tiny button snowflakes:
Sophia Grace and Rosie wanted me to take their picture, and I wanted to tell you how easy the back of the pillow is. Aren't they cute in their Santa hats?
Re the back: I took two pieces of fabric, overlapped salvage edges of each piece, so I didn't need a seam on the open edges, and then sewed them to the piping and front. Viola! A pillow!
There isn't a need for a button or closure, the two flaps just overlap, easy-peasy.
Merry Christmas to you from me! And a Happy New Year!
I'm linking up with Design Wall Mondays as usual. (Here)
Here are four of my very small collection of very small pillows. They are on a doll dresser in the front hallway.
The heart shaped one is covered with white buttons, and is 7 inches in width. All the buttons are sewed on, and it is backed with muslin and is filled very firmly with batting. It was an ebay purchase.
The felt flowers and beads pillow is filled with rice and is 6" x 6", and is all hand stitched. I don't remember where I got it, but possibly my friend Dee made it for me.
The little "H" cross stitched one is 5.5" square, and is filled with lavender. I love it so much, because it is backed with blue plaid, and the cross stitching is so tiny, and it smells so lovely. Again, an ebay purchase.
The embroidered flower basket pillow is 6.5" square, and is a very pale pink, with a lovely small pink print on the back. Filled with cotton batting. I bought it at a craft fair years ago, and don't remember the time or place.
This week I've been working on more blocks for my Indigo Dear Jane quilt.
To see what others have on their design walls this morning, go to Patchwork Times, Judy Liquidara's website to see pictures of a lot of quilter's design walls. (Here)
