Remember that little teaser I gave you back here? You know, the fabric swatches I showed at the bottom of the post? Well...I did something with them! Wanna see??
It's called a quillow, and I learned how to make it from this excellent tutorial: Quillow
It's a gift for my first niece {yet to be born/named}.
It is aptly named a "quillow" as it is a quilt, that folds into a pillow! Genious!
The colors were chosen after Baby Girl's momma, D, asked me about acquiring some felt in a few particular colors: mustard yellow, light and dark aqua, red, chocolate brown, orange, light and dark gray, and white. I decided to use this as my color inspiration, and I think it came together rather nicely!
I decided to hand tie the quilt (rather than machine quilt it) to preserve some of the fluffiness. Unfortunately, I neglected to get a picture of the "hand ties."
The front of the quillow is light aqua with chocolate brown flecks, and is decorated with this little guy
as well as some hand stitched "swirls." Here is another view of the quilt portion.
And this is a view of the quilt top with the coordinating fleece backing.
Elephants weren't in my original plan, but when I was looking for a cozy backing for the quilt, I stumbled across this fleece. It had EVERY SINGLE COLOR in it, and {i thought} coordinated perfectly! Thus, the elephant theme was born. So cute! The quillow is for a little girl, and although elephants don't usually scream GIRL to me, there are some really pretty prints on some of the elephants {you can sort of see them in the picture} that I thought made it just feminine enough.
I traced the outline of one of these guys and used that pattern to make the elephant for the front of the quillow. Hope Baby Girl likes elephants!
Oh...and I couldn't resist stitching on one of my new labels!
I had so much fun making this little gift for my first niece! I hope she knows how much she is already loved!
What do you think?
