I’m the first one to admit that I am selfish with my creativity. Most of the things I make are for me, or for people I care about. I don’t make money from my work, (sorry, no one is willing to pay for my time; which is why I never even try). There are many charity drives out there and once again – I don’t rush to do those. I rarely knit for charity – knitting just takes too much time. I can be convinced to sew, if the project is small.
Like #sunnyroompillowdrive. Liberty from LAMQG has asked for pillows for teen moms who are in an institution, with all the blandness and loneliness that entails. Pillows, I can do, using up orphan blocks is the perfect place to start.
Like my first attempt at the January BOM. I ended up making a whole quilt with this pattern and some of these fabrics. This one had a different background, so it languished until now.
I was on a roll.
Another orphan, from the class I took at Quiltcon. Paperless paper piecing isn’t for me, I wasn’t going to try and make any more blocks with this method, so another pillow was born.
This time I went a step further and used batting on the pillow front and quilted, practicing my ruler work. Since I ran out of the solid yellow, even the back is decorated.
Last but not least
I played with my accuquilt as well as walking foot quilting. At this point I just liked the yellow/orange/red color scheme so I stuck with it.
All this is bright and sunny.
At our annual LAMQG meeting in the park, I shared the pillows before giving them to Liberty.
Leah
Super Cute!