Pointedly Overcompensating

I have a bunch of scraps left over from this quilt and decided to make a matching pillow to go with the quilt. Not being a really ‘matchy-matchy’ person I wasn’t particularly concerned about re-creating the quilt block. The best scraps were the cut-offs from the jelly rolls and the left-over yardage from the setting triangles and backing so that is what I concentrated on using.

I started by paper piecing a bunch of half rectangle triangles that finish at 2″ x 4″.

This 18″ pillow is what I ended up with !

I’m not a big fan of doggy eared pillows so I tried to soften the corners a bit. You can see how I trimmed the angles a little better without the pillow form.

There’s a shot of the back. I prefer the zipper style back over the envelope style back.

So all those lost points that I was boo-hooing about here have been compensated for and all is right in my (quilting) world again, lol !

Thanks for taking a look, hope all is right with you !

Linking up with CrazyMomQuilts for Finish it up Friday.

 

 

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