Thursday, 10 March 2016

A pillow for a friend

Sometimes projects just have to happen, like this pillow here:


This was a spontaneous idea we had as a quilting bee and that's also the first finished project we made.We wanted to make a pillow for a friend and opted for this beautiful raspberry kiss block by Wooden Spoon Quilts.
We loved the colour pallete of the finished pillow in the tutorial and each of us made 5 blocks in yellow, orange, red, pink and purple. The pillow is approx. 60 x 60cm/ 23x23'' big and fluffy.

Each of us contributed materials as well such as the batting, zipper, the back fabrics, thread and I (as the Bee Momma) put it all together.


I opted to do the loopy loop free motion quilting rather than straight lines as the tiny blocks from 5 different people did have differences in size but overall the pillow looks super lovely and I'm sure it will be well received.

I'm feeling very proud having accomplished a little side project as a bee with my great girls from the Quilty Circle of Bees. 

 Linking this to Finish up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts and Modern Patch Monday at the Modern Cologne Quilters.

8 comments:

  1. Oh, my, I just love it! Thanks for the link!

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  2. Ach das ist ja ein fantastischer Zufall. Ich hab am Wochenende auch mein x-Block Kissen fertig gestellt. Auch wenn ich dafür eine andere Technik genutzt habe.
    Euer Kissen sieht sehr verspielt aus und das Quilting unterstreicht das noch etwas. Wirklich toll.

    LG Mareike

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  3. Liebe Daniela!
    Wunderschön Dein neues Kissen. X-Blocks mag ich sehr! Danke für´s Zeigen!
    Liebe Grüße
    Dorthe

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  4. Hallo Daniela,

    wunderschön! Die unterschiedlichen low volumes welche die plus signs Rahmen gefällt mir sehr sehr gut.

    LG Judith

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  5. Das Kissen gefällt mir, sowohl Muster als auch Farbwahl.
    LG, Britta

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  6. Das Kissen ist wunderschön geworden. Diese X-Muster ist grandios. Das muss ich auch mal machen. Viele Grüße, Martina

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  7. It looks wonderful and a very achievable group project which shows love to another - a beautiful gift!

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