I had several left over blocks from the log cabin quilt and decided to try
making a pillow.
I used THIS tutorial from Amanda Jean of Crazy Mom Quilts.
The process was really simple. For me, the hardest part was deciding what thread color to use for the quilting. Since the blocks have both dark and light areas, I wasn't sure whether to go dark or light with thread color.
My first choice was to use a burgundy thread in a simple X through the blocks. I didn't like how the dark thread looked in the light part of the block so I picked out the stitches and went with the cream thread. {Which I'm not really thrilled with either}
I'm wondering if I would like it better using dark thread and light thread. I'm not very confident machine quilting anything other than straight lines but I'd be willing to try on a small project like a pillow.
I think I'm going to make another pillow to try it out. I'm also going to switch the dark/light placement on the next one.
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