Quilt Shot Block #27 ~ Happy New Year Variation

12 ½ inch block

Basic pattern from:

One quarter of the 9 inch block

Then I tried to rearrange for a different variation.

Decided to go with the pattern given.

Then I messed around with the design again.

I wished I had done the following:

Done the following instead.

Wasn't crazy about it after I got it together.

It was only a 9 inch block, so had to add borders to go with my 12 inch collection.

Didn't quiet have enough fabric of any one color.

So I used 2 and still had to piece one of those. 

Can you find the pieced border?

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Wordless Wednesday #110 ~ Beautiful Threads

Go Big Blue!

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Upcycled Shirt- Christmas Card Pillow

I brought home several of my Mother's clothing with the intent to make memory quilts.  However, there were some Christmas shirts I decided to turn into seasonal pillow covers. This one I made for my sister. Turns out she actually bought the shirt for Mother, therefore had more special meaning to her.

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Forgot to get a picture of the shirt before I started the project.

It had a small stamped picture on the front.

Some light stains on the bottom of the shirt, so turned up bottom.

I left the hem intact.

Added the same green Christmas tree fabric to bottom and top to create size of pillow form.

 Pillow cover is made in "Envelope" fashion

Tip: I use my washing machine"s "Sanitize" cycle before using second hand pillows as my pillow forms.

Do the triangle trees look familiar?

They are just like the ones on these Christmas Cards.

Serendipity happened with this project.

I turned up the bottom to cover stains.

After completed, I realized the pillow had pockets!

Great place to put those Christmas cards!

I was tempted to keep this pillow, but it was part of my Christmas gift to my sister.

I hope she enJOYs it.

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