First up at 4:00am: I am starting a new pillow-making club at my LQS called "Pillow Panache". Each month we'll be making a decorative pillow with increasingly challenging piecing and decorative options. The first month of August will feature this jelly-roll strip pillow ...
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Of course my sample is made from all Kaffe Collective fabrics :) It measures 16" square, and I quilted it with random, irregular straight lines. I love, love, love the way it turned out, and consequently I had a very difficult time turning it over to the shop for display! This is the back featuring a centered zipper...
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Great news for Jennifer at That Girl, That Quilt - her Fresh Modern Bee blocks are finished and will be making their way to her home after a trip to the post office tomorrow morning. And just in time because I received the fabrics for July from Karrie Lynn at Freckled Whimsy in my mailbox this afternoon!
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Now it's time to get really serious about finishing my Kaffe Crayon Box. I finally decided on a plan for the backing and ordered the fabrics over the weekend. I'm hoping to finish it before the July 15 ending of the SSSQ Kaffe Fassett Quilt-Along on Facebook, so I'll sign off for now and head back up to the sweatshop!!
We are having spectacular weather here in northern Illinois this week... hopefully I can squeeze in some pool time :)