One Holiday Pillow!

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I designed a series of holiday pillows and have been working on them.  However, as so often happens this time of year, life keeps getting in the way of sewing.  Anyway, this “Gather” pillow is one I have managed to complete. 

I am a huge fan of words on fabric and quilts so I wanted to include some words on my holiday pillows.  As well-loved as words like “joy” and “hope” are, I was looking for something different.  Not long ago, I was in Panera with one of my friends when she needed to take a call from work.  While I was waiting for her to finish her call, I noticed a large advertising poster in the restaurant.  It included lots of words describing yummy food and drink.  I got a few ideas from there and then did some more brainstorming and came up with a few words I could use.  In addition to gather and glow (pillow coming soon :)), the list was bliss, share, magic, warm, glisten, glitter and glee.  I thought the alliteration of four pillows with glow, glisten, glitter and glee would be fun if you like that kind of thing.

I hope to be able to get a couple more pillows finished this weekend.  How is your holiday sewing going?

7 Comments
  • amandajean
    Posted at 17:06h, 21 December Reply

    lovely!!! what a great idea. my LQS has a cute pillow that says merry (4 times, stacked.) it's very very cute. something similar has been on my list for awhile. i do love the gather sentiment.

  • kwiltmakr
    Posted at 03:53h, 18 December Reply

    I like the glitter, glee etc. I also like the warm and bliss. Nice. Have a wonderful Christmas.

  • Lauren
    Posted at 14:05h, 17 December Reply

    That is so much fun! I love words on fabric. I think I might copy yours, but I want to do it for every day, not the holidays. Looks like I have a spring project. Thanks for sharing the great idea!

  • Ethne
    Posted at 08:15h, 17 December Reply

    This is a lovely cushion and I'm looking forward to seeing the other designs – will you be changing the fonts?

  • Cheryl Arkison
    Posted at 05:32h, 17 December Reply

    This is great. And my favourite sentiment when it comes to the holiday!

  • Lynn
    Posted at 20:16h, 16 December Reply

    I love your words! I am in a frenzy of holiday knitting. It is going well.

  • Deb
    Posted at 18:29h, 16 December Reply

    I'd love to comment on this post…although I'm really here for the giveaway…so I'll scroll down after I post this. 🙂

    I LOVE your Gather pillow!! We have a plaque over our fireplace that says Gather Together, and I love it. So I'm into words on things, too. You seem very creative and talented. Thanks for sharing your awesome pillow.

    (My son is in AA, too…y'all got lots of snow lately!)

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