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hello and welcome!
today I am excited to share my Folk Art Holiday project with you and…
giveaway some fabric!!
love, love this new line from Gina Martin Design!
I am sharing how to make a fun, two-sided pillow cover…
shall we get started??
for this project, you will need fat quarters or yardage of this line
embroidery floss and linen
wonder under or steam a seam
16 inch or larger zipper
and batting
I cut a variety of sized strips for the back
and sewed them into a unit
I placed the unit on batting and did some wavy quilting and then trimmed to 14.5 inches square
I embroidered “merry” on some linen (sorry, I thought I had a photo…)
*tip* cut an extra large piece of linen…easier to work with and you can always trim it down!
I decided to make this pillow 14 inches, so my linen piece is cut 14.5 inches square
I cut a simple tree and using wonder-under or steam a seam, I placed my tree
and stitched around the edge…
I added a couple of stars using the same applique method…
and stitched around them
placing the linen piece on batting, I did some simple echo quilting…
next step is to add a zipper to the bottom of each side…
here you can see the zipper at the bottom of both sides…
then you can sew up the sides and across the top
turn right side out and…
insert your pillow form
now you are ready for the holiday season with a gift or new home décor for yourself!
I hope that you enjoyed this project!
if you have any questions, please leave me a comment or email me
brooke@sillymamaquilts.com
now for the giveaway of 4 charm packs!!
which is the best part, right??!
leave me a comment about Christmas…
I am drawing a winner Thursday morning, July 31
here is again the blog tour stops…
there is still time to enter all the giveaways!
•July 23rd Becca Bryan www.bryanhousequilts.com
•July 24th Hilary Smith www.youngtexanmama.com
•July 25th Sally Keller www.sallysangelworks.typepad.com
•July 28th Donna Shervington www.donnaleeq.blogspot.com
•July 29th Brooke Sellmann http://www.sillymamaquilts.com —you are here!!
•July 30th Gina Martin www.patternandhue.com
•July 31st Prize Drawings
Happy Sewing!
Oh I love that fabric! And the pillow is great. Looks simple enough! Maybe I should get started on some Christmas gifts 🙂 Thanks
I really love this Christmas line. I was doing so many last minute projects last year, I decided to start my Christmas sewing/knitting in January this year! I’d love to do a tree skirt for myself though.
I was thinking that I need to start my Christmas sewing earlier this year. I guess it is a good thing that I have been collecting ideas. Now if only I could remember them!!!! Love your pillow!!! I really love this fabric line. Thanks!!!!
That fabric is lovely! Thanks for the tutorial. Christmas is my favorite time of the year!
I love this! So far I’ve three things on my to do list for christmas 2014, 2 advent calandars for the kids, and a tabler unner for my sister in law. The speed I work at, it’s going to be a challenge to finish, A christmas cushion like this for my mother in law would go down well though 😀
I am trying really hard to make almost all of my Christmas gifts this year by hand. Your pillow would be a perfect gift! Thanks for the chance to win!
Last week I started working on a Christmas quilt for myself and today I’ll put the borders on. I love your pillow and think I need to put my quilt on hold to make one to take to my niece when I see her next week.
I am very excited for Christmas crafting this year!
I love these cute snowflakes and colors. Your zipper cover looks easy.
Christmastime is so fun and special, especially with little kids. Giving gifts is fun because I love the looks on faces as they open gifts.
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As a little girl I loved Christmas time, the decorations the presents and spending time with the family, now I have my own little family it is even better as I get to share my love with my little monkeys
Simple but very pretty:)) thanks for the chance .
The pillow is a cute project. And I love the charm packs. Thanks for a chance to win some.
I love the idea that the cushion is double sided,especially having teenagers who don’t always put the cushions back properly. Thanks for a great giveaway too. x
This is a great little project! Thank you for sharing, and for the chance to win!
All I can think about right now is that it is cool outside at Christmas. Oh, a break in this heat. And sweaters!
HI, a neat post!
We love the candles twinkling and all gathering together for light supper on Christmas Eve and then sharing the Christmas Story ! Thanks for a great Giveaway !
my mom loved everything christmas and i inherited that love, especially santas. i have well over 100!
I have been working on Christmas table runners all month and need more fabric
Very cute project! I love Christmas fabric. I’ve made a few Christmas projects and I have a couple of kits for projects that I REALLY need to get out and work on! I have a Christmas quilt that I finished a couple of years ago that I couldn’t bear to put away after Christmas this year. So, it is folded on the back of my sewing chair. Maybe I’ll put it away this year, but I enjoy seeing it every day now.
I love Christmas fabric and the pillow is adorable !
I enjoy Christmas more now that I have been blessed with two adorable little granddaughters!
I love decorating all the trees in my parents house and making cookies with my mom
I love Christmas more every year because I get to see it through the eyes of my son!! Such cute fabric!! Thanks!
Love your pillow! I love the Christmas season because we take extra time to visit with family and friends. And I love giving lots of quilts as Christmas gifts!
Would love to make some Christmas table toppers for my house!
I love this fabric (and all Christmas fabrics) and I love Christmas! Thanks!
I have already started working in Christmas gifts. So it’s really Christmas in July at May house
I love the echo quilting around the embroidery! I love Christmas- especially baking with my kiddos! Thanks for the chance to win!
Christmas is coming fast!! I love the season, I have just now started working out what I will be making for everyone! I guess I better get busy! Your Christmas Pillow is very cute! Thanks so much for this awesome giveaway! I hope I win! 🙂
I love Christmas and celebrating Christ’s birth. I love sewing Christmas gifts.
I love decorating for Christmas! I would like to make some stockings with Folk Art Holiday. Thanks for the chance to win.
Christmas is a wonderful time of the year! Handmade gifts are so fun to give (and receive). I’m imagining what I could do with this fabric, it’s very cute. Thank you for the tutorial.
I love Christmas. I keep a Santa plaque up on the wall of my den year-round. Thanks for sharing your tutorial & thanks for the chance to win.
These fabrics are adorable – especially the birds!
Great project, looks like a perfect Christmas gift. Thanks for the tutorial! ;->
I love your pillow. I am starting some Christmas pillows and these fabrics look like they would be perfect. Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway.
I love your pillow. I would love to start making Christmas things right now but have not started. This blog hop is really inspiring me
I love creating gifts for Christmas. Have done so for years. Just fills you with cheer.
Our annual tradition is baking cookies with the entire family. It is a tradition that I’m very fond of… Especially the taste testing.
These fabrics are so perfect for use in any Christmas or Winter project and love the pillow. I make most of the gifts we give at Christmas and bake lots of cookies for family and friends. Such a beautiful time of the year. Thanks so much for the giveaway opportunity.
This fabric line is so sweet! I love your pillow! I love making handmade gifts for the holidays! thank you for the tutorial and giveaways!!
Love the fabric & the pillow cover! Can’t wait to try making one! Thanks for the tutorial!
The pillow is wonderful! Time to start on Christmas projects!
Love the pillow! It’s too early to start with Christmas baking, but never too soon to start on homemade gifts!
Love the Christmas fabric! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Love the pillow. I have never put a zipper in a pillow, I think I should give it a go. My sister my get one for Christmas. Thanks.
Christmas is my favorite holiday. Love the decorations and all the baking.
I love your pillow, just perfect. I love making things for the people I love for Christmas, and this year I’m starting early, like now. I love Christmas decorations too, although I’m not keen about putting up all the decorations, lol.
This is just a sweet project. I think the words Merry and Joy describe Christmas the best 🙂
What a cute pillow! My favorite part of Christmas is AFTER the tree is decorated and we turn off the room lights and turn on the tree lights. Perfect! Thanks for the giveaway chance.
Christmas in July the best time to blog hop and start planning Christmas
Very sweet fabric!!! Your pillow would make a perfect holiday gift and keepsake!! Thanks for sharing in the hop!!
Very cute pillow. I love these Christmas fabrics, too. I would make a lovely tree skirt. I need a new one.
Christmas is all about family and for us that means going to the beach and camping. We love to do that and I would love to create a family beach rug for my children this year.
Thanks for sharing your gorgeous little project, I love the fabrics you used.
Love the pillows! What a great way to showcase Christmas fabrics. An old fashion Christmas is my thing and your beautiful pillow fits right into that theme.
Fabulous Brooke! I love all the fabrics in this line!
I always think about starting my Christmas sewing about now but I never do until about October !
I love Christmas, and your fabrics are fab! Love the pillow.
Christmas for me means having fun with my six siblings and all of my nephews and nieces, even grand-nephews. Thanks
I love Christmas and have already done some shoping:)
Christmas equals family.
Christmas seems to come earlier and faster with each passing year. kthurn@bektel.com
What pretty fabric! The pillow is very cute and I like the embroidery on it! Thank you for the tutorial and the chance to win!
Such cute fabric! Every Christmas Eve my aunt and uncle host a huge cocktail party- my favorite party of the year!
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Love the fabric, can’t wait to make a Christmas project with it.
I like Christmas, but I’ve never understood Christmas quilts. It seems strange to me to make a special quilt for, at most 2 weeks a year. I really like this fabric line though, because it seems Christmas-y, but the prints aren’t, so I could use the quilt all winter.
I love the fact that I have a little granddaughter to help me out these past couple of years. She helps me with decorating and Christmas cookie baking – yum
Cute little pillow!
I have two Christmas projects in the works and hope to get at least one done before the holiday. The pillows gave me some ideas to compliment my current projects. Thanks.
What an adorable pillow! I have made 2 quilts as Christmas gifts, and some cardinal ornaments~ I have never, ever been this far ahead for gifts!! Its almost scary! LOL Thanks for the fun!
Christmas is exciting again with my 3 year old granddaughter!
Oh wow Brooke, your festive holiday pillow is absolutely fabulous!!! I love the embroidery too, superb work!!! Very inspiring, thanks so much! I can’t wait to start my Christmas decorating every year and this year I might actually get my guest bedroom holiday ready with some homemade throw pillows and a valence, if I can get myself in gear that is, hehe. 🙂
love christmas fabric, thanks
Great Christmas fabrics, I love getting presents at Christmas, but also in seeing my kids eyes light up when they open theirs that’s my favorite part about Christmas.
I don’t like to think of Christmas coming but it sure is hard not to get excited when you see all the GREAT Christmas fabric out there.
Christmas always catches me off guard. I promise myself that I’ll be better next year – and then I’m not. I am very glad I’m writing this because I suddenly realized that what I thought was a piece of old fruit in a napkin (and thus threw away) was really my crochet thread! It’s saved. 🙂
With our youngest a teenager, and the older two adults, the best part of Christmas has become hanging out with our kids — they are really neat people!!
I love the fact that designers are blinging up Christmas fabrics! It is no longer hum drum green an red, red and green! My grandson loves sewing with his Nana, so I think a Christmas project again would be a great thing! He loves making “presents’ for his mom!
I love doing the advent candles each week during the Christmas season.
When my children were little we always had both grandmas (widows) spend the night with us so they would be here on Christmas morning to enjoy the kids opening their gifts. Then we would have a big Christmas brunch. They are both gone now. We still miss them even though the kids are grown now. Cute Folk Art fabric too. Thanks, Kathy
I love family gatherings at Christmas. One of our favorite traditions is a white elephant exchange. I look around all year for the gifts that will make people groan! Thanks for the fun, and for sharing your beautiful pillow!
Cute fabric! I remember the kids wanting to sleep near the tree Christmas week.
I love Christmas decorations, but I have to admit, I have not made ANY of my own Christmas decorations. I get so busy making things for other people, I don’t end up with anything for myself.
Beautiful fabric! Thanks for the giveaway!
Christmas is our favorite time of year! I’ve been itching to make a Christmas quilt.
I enjoy decorating for Christmas. Love your embroidery. Thanks for the giveaway.
Loooove Christmas! Everything about it!! lol Am busy making gifts already…coming faster each year…or I have moire people to make thing for!! giggle
Cute pillow! I really need to get started on my Christmas sewing (:
So much fun and great pillow idea. I would make the pillow tops using the fabric to make folkart deer or birds and some branches. It is fun to play around with sketches and see whats fun! Thank you for your blog!
Need to get going on my Christmas sewing. Started the year off okay, but summer seems to have ground it to a halt. The blog hop is motivating me to start again.
Must make a Santa sack for my youngest and finish the advent calendar this year!
I think Christmas all year round, start planning advent calendar and stockings in january!
I really need to get a jump on my christmas shopping/sewing!
This year I have to make a tree skirt for Christmas!
Starting to sew gifts to put in my year round Christmas box….all in one place, and ready to wrap in December!
What a fun group of fabrics! I am retiring Dec. 1 and hope to FiNALLY have time to get ready for the holidays properly…including some gift sewing and quilting.
This looks so cute and easy to do, will love to try it. I need to make a Skirt for my tree this x-mas and that fabrics look gorgeous and perfect for it 🙂
I love this fabric! And i really like the pillow you made with it! What a great idea.
I love giving handmade gifts. My daughter also helps me with the gifts. We have made hand poured candles in mason jars, peppermint sugar scrub, and this year we are making book page wreaths that we saw on pinterest.