Little Projects...

Happy New Year to you all!

Are you full of resolve for the new year?

Resolutions...goals.

I have plans for this year.

My fave quote is this one...

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today."

Amen to that!

Yesterday, I made a comment on Facebook that

I was in my happy place.

Here's what I was making...

12 inch pillow cover

Way back in 2010, I received a very special gift.

Read about it here.

It took me forever to quilt it...

but I finally did.

July of 2012.

I call it my winter quilt.

I love throw pillows

and had decided a long time ago

that I needed to have at least one

to go with each of my quilts.

I didn't make this winter quilt, 

so I didn't have scraps to match it.

Initially, I had thrown a pillow cover

 made with vintage happy fabrics

on the 12" pillow form and had that on the bed.

And, though I love this pillow cover,

it just doesn't work with the winter quilt.

Looks too....happy.

Ya know?

So, I pulled out my container of primitive fabrics

and put together a pillow cover.

I made it using the same pattern as the quilt...

alternating 9 patch squares with squares.

I quilted it in the same pattern (diagonal lines)

as I had quilted the winter quilt.

I love it.

I am very pleased with how it turned out!

(I am going to break my arm patting myself on the back one of these days!)

"I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.". Jeremiah 29:11