Yesterday I quilted and bound a little Split-Blade Pinwheel quilt for grandson Willie, 1 ½, and made a small coordinating pillow. These were made with the leftovers from the turquoise Pinwheel quilt that will be for his oldest sister Carolyn. The turquoise quilt was made to go with the pink Pinwheel quilt that's for Carolyn's younger sister Violet. See previous posts for details about those quilts.
I used light turquoise 40-wt. Omni thread on top and turquoise 60-wt. Bottom Line thread in the bobbin. The backing is some sort of very fine, soft fabric that I suspect is a good part polyester, and may have been a sheet in a former lifetime, though if it was, it had very little use. I figured this was the perfect little quilt with which to use it up. The batting is made up of a whole lot of pieces of Soft & Bright 100% cotton, all stitched together with a 9-millimeter zigzag. Frankenbatting! 😄 The quilt measures 44" x 47". The pantograph is 'Petal Pushers'.
The 12" x 12" pillow is filled with folded pieces of batting which were encased in the backing fabric before being put into the pieced cover. The big black button on top came from a jar full of my mother's very old buttons. That button is probably 100 years old.
The last few pictures show Carolyn's and Violet's quilts, quilt bags, and pillows.
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