Echo Pillow : :

I finished my Echo Pillow! I really love these fabrics and think this pillow looks pretty good sitting in my favorite chair!



My plan was to make pillowcases out of these for my bedroom, but when my very best friend told me how much she loved them, I had to make her a pillow!



It was a good excuse for me to practice my quilting.



Straight lines scare me!



I love the back. If I had enough fabric, I'd make a set using just these two prints as the front for another pillow.



And, maybe even one more for myself...



Happy sewing!

Color Love { and a Giveaway Winner! } : :

I've been reading everywhere that Tangerine will be the color of 2012. What do you think, do you like it?



Personally, I am loving it! Especially the combination of tangerine + grey + teal + black! I am seeing these colors everywhere on Pinterest.

images via pinterest

I combined this past weekend's giveaway bundle with my favorite bundle of Lotta Jansdotter's Echo Collection and it makes me so happy! My husband really likes them, too - Yes! I may have finally found my bedroom fabrics!



I still love grey with any and every color. And, I've always loved black.

So, what do you think? Is tangerine & teal the new red & aqua?



And now, a giveaway winner!

Thank You to all of you who entered this past weekends giveaway! I loved reading all your inspirational quotes, scriptures, stories of the things that keep you positive, and I appreciate your willingness to share them here. From the 503 entries that came in before 10pm, Mr. Random says our lucky winner is comment # 225, Jezibels ~ sproutbabysprout.blogspot.com!!! I hope you enjoy your winnings, I will be in touch shortly!

Wishing you all a new, wonderful week!

Teal Quilt Block : :

My Teal Block for my Bottled Rainbow Quilt is finished!

This block was a bit challenge for me! Mostly because I just didn't have the scraps. Back when we "bottled our rainbows" the pieces I had considered teal all had the right color but also many others? After sticking so closely to my kona solid color for the other blocks I had to break my rule this time and cut into some stashed fabrics. My new 1001 Peeps!

I experimented with some new shapes for this, as well. I'm using a Mandala inspired theme for each block, starting out with one center shape to work from. I sort-of  mimicked the hexagon shape in the 1001 Peeps print for this and then I used my new GO! Baby fabric cutter and my favorite flower die to help me with some more tricky shapes. It worked!!!

Zig-zag stitching around the really curvy pieces was a little tricky, too -- it definitely wasn't easy!

Look matching nails!

My Teal Block makes four finished! I've made room in my studio closet for all of them.

Here you can see the others -- my Pumpkin Petals, my Buttercup Sunburst, and my Ruby Love birds.

How about you -- what are you working on these days? I'd love to see!