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This morning I completed my newest Cathedral Window pillow!  Isn't it awesome?! 

I absolutely love it.  It doesn't match a thing in my house but I really don't care.

 

 

 

Here's a view of the backing I chose for it.  I wanted something with a warm

 and bright feeling and I think this fabric fits the bill pretty good.

 

 

 

Next on my agenda today was to start making a runner for my son. 

 

He recently moved into a new place and asked if I would make a table runner for the

top of an old hope chest I had given him.  How could I refuse? 

 

For a while I racked my brain, unable to decide what fabrics to use.  So much of what's in my stash is pretty girly, flowery...not very masculine at all.  Then I had my light bulb moment...SOLIDS.  I settled on solids because they are gender neutral. 

 

When he came home for a visit this weekend I asked him to pick five fabrics from the solids

I've been hoarding collecting in every color of the rainbow.  And this is what he chose...ACK.

 I was like "Seriously dude?  Are you tryin' to give me a brain aneurysm?" 

 

 

 

Never in my life would I have chosen those colors to go together...never in a million years.  But I gotta tell you.  The more I looked at this color combination, the more I kinda liked it.  After thinking for a while about what to make, I settled on another braid project and came up with this. 

 

 

Don't you just love it?!  I do.  I don't know why but those colors really do work well together. 

After I've quilted the runner this coming week, I plan to start on a lap quilt

for my son's couch using the same colors.

 

 

Well that's all for now but stay tuned because in the next day or so I'm going

to post a tutorial on the technique I used to make this pillow.

 

Till next time...