Easter Pillow

Yesterday was another snowy, blowy day with about 3-4" of accumulation. We're on the downward swing of winter now with hopefully only 4 or 5 weeks to go. Then Spring! And what does Spring bring? Easter!

I have lots bits and pieces and half square triangles left over after making the sashing for my Primitive Garden BOM quilt and got to thinking about what I could do with them. Since many of the half square triangles were already sewn together, I decided to make an Easter-themed pillow. There is a cute pattern in the latest issue of Create & Decorate with a little chick pulling a wagon with an Easter egg and after a few tweaks and changes, here's the end result.

All the elements are made of wool and I used buttons for the decorations on the egg and a large one for the wheel. I added prairie points to try to use up some of the smaller pieces of fabric. It was fun to do and worked up really quickly.

I remember reading somewhere that stacked quilts should be refolded frequently to prevent fading along the folds and I did that as well. It took a while as I have quite a few and used the opportunity to change the quilts on the beds. Our friend Graham made the quilt cupboard that houses my antique quilt collection in our living room.

I have a few ideas of what I'd like to work on today, so we'll see how that goes and what I can get done. Happy stitching!