Saturday, February 12, 2011

Scrappy Strings Pillow

Remeber this block?  Well it quickly turned into this mini quilt:


I have turned my attention to working on my doll quilt for DQS 10.  I'm kind of torn between two ideas, and I finally decided I would just make a doll quilt of each idea, and see which I (and hopefully my partner) will like most.  As a second bonus, I am using 100% scrap fabric AND turning both these mini quilts into some new pillow covers!


This mini measures 20 inches square, with 16 paper pieced string blocks that finish to 4 inches square.  Each fabric strip measures anywhere from 1/4 inch to 7/8 inch finished.  Teeny Tiny!  I think I could get lost staring at this!  As for the quilting, I quilted two lines 1/4 inch apart on either side of the white center lines for a nice clean quilted finish.

My plan was for which ever doll quilt design idea I decided on, to use either Kate Spain's Central Park, or Denyse Schmidt's Hope Valley.  I now have this internal debate going on, as I'm not sure how well this design would translate to a single line of fabrics, I feel like half the appeal of this strings design is the array of fabrics and colors.  Hmm...


Here is my doll quilt turned pillow in its new home on a chair in our living room, where it is bright and cheefully sprucing up our home!

I am entering this pillow into Stitched in Color's Bloggers Pillow Party for February

Blogger's Pillow Party


Stop over and check out all the awesome pillows that have already been entered!





I also attempted the oh so intimidating invisible zipper on this bad boy, and have to admit, it was much easier to do than I though it would be!  Really!  I only had to rip the zipper out once, and that was due to a stupid stupid error on my part, but I can tell you, there will be many more invisible zippers in my pillow making future!  I used Stitched in Color's tutorial, which made it a breeze.  Rachel's tutorial has so many pictures to help along the way, anyone can do it, promise!  Be sure to check it out!


My 100th post giveaway is open for another 2 days, until Monday February 14th at 8:00 PM EST, if you haven't already, be sure to enter here to win some yummy fabrics!




11 comments:

  1. Ooh, that is so scrumptiously scrappy.........I just don't know about using one line. I guess it depends on how much diversity it has in it. I'm not familiar enough with different lines to help you there.

    Hope you win this competition, and I win the Sunkissed Charms ! LOL !

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  2. Got to see this in person! It looks so cool - like an I Spy for fabiric lovers! You did a fine job - I checked out the other entries, and I think they'll pick this one, even though there are lots of other nice entries.

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  3. LOVE the pillow! Love the colors, love the pattern, love it all! Great job!

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  4. This is so wonderful! I LOVE the colors and the thin white lines running through it! So great!

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  5. Gorgeous!! I love how colorful and bright your pillow is. Great job!!

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  6. Beautiful pillow....so bright and cheerful....

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  7. I like the pillow a lot. As often, the most simple things are the most beautiful!

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  8. Love this pillow! All the colors are so fabulous!

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  9. It's really beautiful and colorful! I'm so glad that my zipper tutorial was helpful for you. Thanks for the link love =)

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