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To Do Tuesday

I’m here with another To Do Tuesday post, happily joining up with Texas Quilt Gal for her To Do Tuesday linky party. Each week we share our goals accomplished during the week and set goals for the next. I just looked at my list from last week – that should give you a good idea at how well I did at staying on task! Here’s my list from last week: 

  • Choose my center block for the SAHRR 2023 – not quite yet, but close!
  • Prep a quilt backing – Oh yeah, I should do that . . 
  • Plan my Endeavourers challenge art quilt – all planned in my head 
  •  Firm Foundation blocks??? – Umm. No. 

It was a happy little squirrel party at Pieceful Thoughts last week. You saw some of those squirrel’s in Monday’s post, and today I’ll show you one more. There have been several “drop everything and make it” moments this week! 

A friend from church sent me an email and wanted to know if I could sew up a little pillow for some Christmas decor in one of the rooms. I just happened to have another Passport to Quilting pattern that would work, so I got to work on it. The background fabric is Grunge Fog, and the trees and trunks are from my scrap bins. 

Christmas Tree pillow using pattern from The Seasoned Homemaker - piecefulthoughts.com

The tree pattern is a paper-pieced pattern from The Seasoned Homemaker, and you can find the pattern here. It doesn’t take long at all to stitch them up! I added a little border in a red buffalo plaid/snowflake print. I did straight stitch quilting following the diagonal lines of the trees. 

Close up of the quilting on the Christmas tree pillow - piecefulthoughts.com

For this pillow, I applied fusible fleece to the pillow top and also to the back to give it a nice firmness. Then I stitched the top and back together leaving an opening for the filling. It was a quick easy way to make a decorative little pillow. I marked the lines with a Hera marker (you can faintly see a line I marked incorrectly if you look closely). The finished pillow is 11-1/2″ x 16-1/2″. 

I’m going to stick with that list from above for my To Do Tuesday list this week, and see if I can make some progress on it. However, I may happily play with squirrels once again – who knows? 

Wendy

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