My Sweet Tea & Sashiko Stitches Pillow is Finished!

My Jolly Bar Bakewell Pillow Cover is finished!

For the quilting, I did hand stitched Sashiko stitching.

I made this pillow with extra blocks from my 

Sweet Tea Jolly Bar Bakewell Quilt

I could not have done this stitching without this ...

Clover Adjustable Ring Thimble with Plate 

@ Fat Quarter Shop

You place it overt your thimble finger with the plate on your palm and 

push the long needle through the fabric

and then pull the needle and smooth the stitches.

More info on my method and tools may be found Here.
I stitched straight lines for the borders in these matching thread colors.

For the center, I let my quilty muse decide and I did some free form improv stitching.
I did not mark these motifs or the straight lines. 

I wanted to make this as a cover for the winter season pillow on the upper left
which has red and green snowmen on the front.
The pillow measured 20" so my Bakewell blocks  needed a narrow outer border
to make it large enough for the pillow up-cycle.

I machine sewed the background border strips around the center
to make a nice clean and crisp frame.

For the back of the pillow cover, I made and envelope back with snap closures
from extra Sweet Tea fabrics.

I bound this pillow with a navy heart print from Bonnie & Camille
that was in my stash.

I am very happy with this project!

I plan to do more Sashiko quilting on future projects.


Do your do large stitch quilting?
I would love to hear what thread and method you use.
I love to learn new quilty things ... :) 

Happy Stitching!

Sweet Tea and Quiting

I am quilting.

I love doing straight line quilting with my walking foot.

It is sew soothing.

Looking forward to showing you this sample quilt in February.

The fabric is Sweet Tea by Sweetwater for Moda Fabrics. 

It is is a sweet as a glass of sweet tea on a summer day.

I am dreaming of summer and sipping hot tea

on this cold New England night.

Sweet Quilty Dreams 

Sweet Sewing and Sweet Tea

It was a sweet tea type of day.

After a happy day of chain piecing on my sewing machine,

I have a nice little stack of blocks.

More soon.

My bed time tea of choice is a hot tea

on this cold wintery night.

<3 Sweet Quilty Dreams  <3

I Like Thursday # 40 ~ Sweet and Bittersweet

Loving these fabrics!

They are by Sweetwater for Moda Fabrics

Some are old and some are new to my fabric stash.

This is a new, easy and fun shortcut pattern.

All will be revealed soon ... :-)

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It is Thursday and somehow I let it slip by without visiting my friends at

I Like Thursday @ Not Afraid of Color

Not too late to be thankful for the gifts in life,
large and small.

I am thankful.

There was laughter last night when I went out to dinner with three very old friends.

There was thankfulness that we still get together to share life.

There was sharing of the things that happen in life that are not always what we planned for.

There was one more chance to say Happy New Year to each other
and to their husbands, two of whom have cancer, one of whom is in hospice.

On Saturday my hubby and I will be going to visit his family out of state
and attend the service for his oldest brother who fought the good fight against cancer
and now is at peace after one last Christmas with his youngest grand children.

I am thankful for the sweet and sometimes bittersweet in life.

I just keep sewing and giving thanks.

Goodnight, my friends <3