What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

The squirrels outside have been enjoying an early spring here 

and have been chasing each other up and down and all around

the trees in our backyard.

My indoor quilty kitties have spent hours watching

squirrel-vision out the windows. 

The quilty ideas have been squirreling around with my quilty muse.

This is my pillow top panel ready to add to my pillow cover.



The Finished Pillow was posted Here

There are two types of quilting here,
both stitched on my regular sewing machine
with the built in walking foot on my Janome 6600p.
Most sewing machines do not have this built in and it is a separate attachment.


If you have a walking foot it looks something like this.
It is also called and even feet foot.
What it does is work together with the regular feed dogs under the fabric
 to help pull heavy fabrics or a quilt sandwich ...

My Girl and I went back and forth on how they should look.

I worried about my applique skills being up to the task.

Here ...

It is easy to machine applique this design to make this pillow.

This is Part 1 of a series of tutorials on how to make this applique block and pillow. 

I am designing these tutorials to help Baby Yoda Fans 

who may want to have one of these pillows but are not sure where to start. 

The first thing you need is the pattern.

It is free for personal use and may be downloaded in the ...

"Utinni!" says the Jawa.

This Jawa is not giving up this pillow ... not even to trade for The Egg.

This Jawa put together the free pattern for this pillow for you to make one for yourself.

May you enjoy some soup and sew a bowl of ...


"Bone Broth For The Little One"

My daughter, who is the Jawa, and I got together to make this design.

Yes, My Girl made her Jawa costume,
and several other Star Wars cosplay costumes.
My Girl is very creative.

My Girl did most of the designing and pattern writing.
I did the pattern testing ...