Pillowcases of Power

Like the title?  A little more exciting than "Pillowcases - A Finish"  Oooh, we could go with "A Pile of Pillowcases"

Anyway,  a plea went out to our guild this past Sunday for Pillowcases to be made for a Native American School in SD.  Bright happy fabrics for ages 6-18.  I thought, "hey, I can do that!

 So I headed up to my stash and started pulling fabrics that looked like I had at least a yard.

 And I made pillowcases!  Actually, I spent most of Sunday afternoon ironing and cutting them out in preparation.

 Monday I did most of the sewing.

 By the end of last night I had 18 pillowcases done.  I have to tell you, that at least four will stay here in the family, but that was intentional.  I've been meaning to use some of the Hello! Kitty fabric for Mini and her own pillowcase.    There is also a Christmas Peanuts one in the pile as well, for WD.  That fabric didn't end up on the back of the Minecraft quilt because it was the wrong color.

 This was a fantastic way to use up prints.  I remember buying these ants on a clearance sale and thinking they were super cute for a kid, but as most things go, without a specific plan, they just sat around unused.

 The jungle fabric on this one I've had for at least 11 years - I used it on a baby quilt for a friend.  I don't think I even have a picture of that quilt anywhere.

 I bought this Thomas yardage when one of the kids was obsessed still liked Thomas.  I think they've probably moved on, but it will be interesting to see which pillowcases they choose to keep when they get home today.  Check out that amazing seam matching!

 Each pillowcase takes approximately a yard of fabric to make, so I busted some serious stash!  Also, as my dad pointed out: I was using my super powers for good.

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Finishes Plus Miscellaneous

 Its funny how sometimes finishes come in cycles.  I will actually have four quilt finishes to share this week!

 

 The first one this week is a small memory quilt for a friend of mine.  Her baby girl was born at just 17 weeks, and I wanted to do something for my friend in memory of her daughter.  So, I made a small quilt (finished size is around 10" square) and sent it to Heidi of Buttons and Butterflies to have it embroidered.  You can go here to see Heidi's Sewing/Quilting Blog and Here to see her Butterfly Kisses Blog and Here to read her story (bring tissues).

 Heidi will digitize footprints and embroider what ever else you want.  Since Hope's footprints were so tiny we went with a small quilt.

 The back.  As you can see, I really did minimal quilting on it.  The piecing is pretty busy and also lots of seams, and I didn't want to detract from the embroidery in the middle, so simple was the way to go.  I put the super simple hanging pockets in the corners. 


 In other things that I feel the need to blog about:

 I won a variety pack of Aurifil Threads from the Elven Garden.  Wool and a few different weight cottons.  I love Aurifil.  I can't wait to try them out.

 And finally, I finished some pillowcases for our Quilt Guild.  We send pillowcases to the troops.  I think we are probably nearing the 6000 number range.  I have decided that this is not my calling.  Pillowcases are not hard.  I think it took me all of an hour to put four together.  However, much like this story previously, they sat around for months before I finally sewed them up.  Lame.

 Now, I don't know what standard issue military pillowcases are like, but Elvis has to be better, right?

 Happy Monday, Everyone!




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Packers Pillowcases

I also made some flannel Packer Pillowcases -  can't let good fabric go to waste!  Two went to my nephew and two went to WD.  I made them from the easiest directions for making pillowcases.  I will try to get up a tutorial to share with you soon.