Scrappy Saturday - Girly Girl (the flimsy)

Girly Girl 

(the flimsy) 

54" x 64"

Created for Baby Girl who is due in October.

(Her parents are our oldest nephew and his wife)

I used Teresa's X Marks the Block tutorial,

but substituted scrappy HSTs for the usual strings to border

the also-scrappy green-banded center strips.

(there's a permanent link in my side bar to the tutorial)

I made one too many blocks

so I added some of the leftover trimmings 

and pieced together this 14" pillow top.

I also had four too many HSTs and a few leftover green strips . . . 

Voila!  

Another 14" pillow.

I used more pink leftovers to piece together the scrappy binding

and multi-directional straight line stitching to quilt the covers.

(One of these days I'll get brave and try stitching curves and swirls)

When I see my sister in a couple of weeks,

I'll send the two pillows home for the nursery-in-waiting.

(she will be in Nashville, which is only

3.5 hours away instead of our usual 14 hours)

Finally, I used the very last of the pink scraps

to make a new cover for one of our couch pillows.

From rusty-brown and blah to cheerful and SO much better!

For the back, I used this long-stashed FQ that Lynne sent from NH.

LOVE it!

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Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

I'm looking forward to the light blues in June.

I've already pulled out a "someday" project to work on.

CLICK HERE to see what the others have done this week.

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