Thursday, April 18, 2013

A Quilted House Pillow { A Riley Blake Design Team Tutorial } : :

Quilted House Pillow

I had so much fun sewing with these adorable Little Red Riding Hood Fabrics! Before they were even available, I had requested them for an RBD Design Team project, just to make this Quilted House Pillow! 

I'm loving these Little Red Riding Hood fabrics! They are so cute!!

For my pillow, I used a several of my most favorite prints in reds, grays, and aqua, along with a couple RBD Basic Solids. To construct the pillow, I used some basic quilting, simple & fun patchwork, applique, and a few special embellishments that you can really have some fun with! I kept the little details pretty modest for the tutorial sake, still I hope to make more of this pillow design, adding in some extra hand-stitched details and applique!

Supplies for Applique

Little Details
I used a 28wt cotton Aurifil thread in aqua from my newly received Simply Color Thread Collection and the applique stitch on my Janome, and it worked beautifully!

House Pillow Details

This sweet print, Little Floral in Gray is my absolute favorite!!

Favorite Corner

For the 1/2" quilting stitches I just let the presser foot be my guide -- easy, fast, and fun!!

House Pillow Details

You can find the full tutorial on the RBD Blog today or just by clicking the tutorial photo below!

A Little Red Riding Hood House Pillow Tutorial

I hope you enjoy this new tutorial!! If you do give my Quilted House Pillow project a go, please feel free to share on  my Facebook page or in my Maureen Cracknell Handmade Flickr group, as well!
Maureen

40 comments:

  1. Cute, cute, cute! You know, I wonder if you could make this into one of those "blanket in a pillow" mats for a pre-school resting project. I don't have little girls to sew for, but just thinking that would be really cute.

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    1. Thanks Gayle! That's a great idea! I actually sketched out a design for a House Quilt, similar to this, with lots of applique! Hopefully I can find time for it sooner than later. It would be the cutest little crib quilt!

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  2. Oh my goodness! That is precious!

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  3. Wow this is too cute!!

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  4. Awee... Soooo positively cute and such a gorgeous fabric range!

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  5. Maureen, that is so stinking adorable!!! I absolutely love it!!!

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  6. Super cute, I love this fabric too!

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  7. Just gorgeous malorgeous and I HAVE to make this.

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  8. Love love love!!! going to have to make one!

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  10. So cute! Love the rick rack and shutter!

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  11. Just too cute! The color go so well together!

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  12. I agree with everyone else-- just too stinkin' cute! Nice job!

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  13. How cute....Makes we wish my daughter was still a littel girl so I could make her one. But alas she is a teenager so I will live vacarioulsy through yalls sewing in blogdom.

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  14. That is *darling*. No question. Love it.

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  15. This is so cute! I am so in love with this fabric collection.

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  16. So cute! This fabric collection is gorgeus.

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  17. What a cute idea! Did it do the trick for the ailing child?

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  18. Now next time have the door so it opens and have little red riding hood waiting inside! What an adorable project. You are so talented.

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    1. Yes, yes, yes!! Those sweet ideas are just what I'm talking about. The ideas are endless for a project like this! Thanks Dianna!!

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  19. This is adorable! I love the little details!

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  20. So cute! Thanks for sharing and I agree with you -- that Little Floral in Gray is such a sweet print and my favorite as well!

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  21. Oh that is just too sweet. I love it!

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  22. Love Love Love - as I said over on Riley Blake's blog. Amazing Maureen. Curious though what did you do with the 2 quilted corners you cut off the roof? wondering if you quilted them the other way so they are cross quilted could you make mini houses with them?
    Can't wait to get some Little Red and see if the colours do really go with my precious Little Apples by Aneela Hoey (the styles are very similar) and I think they will look amazing together. I am already planning to put these little houses on my daughters new bed with her Little Apples Apple Crate quilt which I am dreaming of making for her. So much fabric love and inspiration.

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  23. That is so cute, I think my Granddaughter would love one! Will have to find the right fabrics!

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  24. Adorable! I just love this line! Must get some!

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  25. Your pillow came out sooo cute! Love that fabric!

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  27. These fabrics are way too cute. Great project too.

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  28. Charming and cute pillow! Thank you for the tutorial!

    Hugs,
    Tatyana

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  29. This is adorable! Thank you for another wonderful tutorial!

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  30. This little house is just too cute!! Thank you so much for sharing the tutorial for this! I think my daughter needs a pillow like this for her room ;)

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  31. So very adorable, every little girl would love this.

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  33. The link to the tutorial doesnt work anymore :-(

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