Twinkling Triangles Pillow

After giving you an update on the making of all my Twinkling Triangle blocks, I kind of left you hanging, unless you saw the reveal on IG. The mystery design behind all the paper-pieced blocks was a modern tree!

I got the tree pieced, but then life intervened, and it took me a few days to continue on in my effort to make a holiday pillow cover. 

Once I'd used more background fabric to make the tree section more square-ish, I added mitered borders in two of the fabrics used in some of the blocks - Kona Glacier and RJR Fabrics' Skinny Stripe in Grove. 

Then on to quilting! Quick and fun was the requirement here, so I went for a vertical serpentine stitch, reminiscent of tinsel. I used Aurifil 50wt 5006 [Light Turquoise], which was pretty yet subtle over the tree, the background, and the borders. I went with a simple lapped backing because time was of the essence.

Putting my 24" cover on a 26" pillow form made it plenty puffy, so much that you can hardly see the borders in the photos. Let me just say, 24" is a big pillow! Below is the new Twinkling Triangles pillow with the 12" x 18" candle pillow cover I made earlier this month. 

Anyway, the Twinkling Triangles mystery sew along with Melanie @mellmeyer was an enjoyable addition to the season, that's for sure.

Twinkling Triangles Update

Over the last 12 or so days, I've been periodically working on piecing all my blocks for the Twinkling Triangles mystery sew along with Melanie @mellmeyer. I began sharing them one by one, as I was also sending my pictures to Melanie as she recovered from a finger injury...

But then I got distracted by other projects, and ended up sewing the rest in batches!

But they're done now, and all ready for when Melanie begins to reveal the project design next week. I'm planning on making a 24" pillow with mine, and ordered a pillow form today. Any guesses what the design could be? I have no clue!

Twinkling Triangles

The Twinkling Triangles Advent sew-along hosted by Melanie @mellmeyer is just one of the new projects/activities I started on Monday. This year, rather than make a quilt, we have the option of two pillow sizes or a wall hanging. I'm going for a 24" pillow.

This entire project will be paper-pieced, which isn't my first piecing language, but I don't mind it on occasion. Melanie suggested several palettes, and I've chosen to do mine monochrome in greens, letting the fabrics be randomly arranged. Here's the fabric I'm working with, all pulled from stash and just a bit from the scrap basket.

For a background, I chose Cotton + Steel Freckles in Cloud White Metallic, pretty much the only neutral cut I had that was large enough. And yes, I just bought that for giftbag linings - oops!

Anyway, the mystery begins today, and here is my first 'block!' I'm loving those greens together!

Oh, and there's been a bonus behind-the-scenes activity the last few days.... Our sew-along hostess, Melanie, had a little incident with her rotary cutter, and is currently unable to sew! So guess who's been helping just a bit, sewing ahead, and sending pictures of her blocks to Melanie so she can post them? Yup, me! It's been good, and we were able to chat over IG call (??) between her home in Germany and mine in the US. Fun times!