Good Intentions

So my great intentions of sewing all day long went a little bit astray. Some laundry, making up the beds in the guest bedrooms, chatting on line with friends, taking down the Christmas crap decorations and making soup all needed to be done. I did manage to make this cute little pillow.

I received this ruler as a gift. If you have not checked out Bee In My Bonnet you need to! Even though I consider myself an experienced sewer, Lori has lots of good tips and time saving ideas.

Cut out your shape....

Fold in half and sew together......

The directions are easy and very clear.....

fast too...

It came out perfect.....If you want the complete set of directions check our Lori's tutorial.

Auditioning my center....

and background.....

I found the perfect object to make a 7" circle......it even has a handle!

There is a neat trick to make the circle. I chose to sew mine down differently. Lori used a small zig zag, I used a straight stitch about 1/16" along the edge.

This is some of the quilting detail. I doubled my batting and am not so sure I like how the blue background quilted up. It could be the  thread color too. I do like the center part though.

This was a nice surprise, I used the dots in the fabric to stitch my straight lines, no marking necessary.

Another shot of the quilting. I used my walking foot for the center and the free motion foot for the background and Auriful thread.

So I didn't even touch any of my proposed projects, but tomorrow is another day!

Kelly