Pillow matching last quilt

Matching with the quilt I finished this summer (look here) I made a pillow case. One side I already quilted as a test piece in summer, when looking for the right quilting pattern. 

I decided against this pattern as it hasn't been boyish enough. In fact the words of my son had been "what are those wonky flowers?" :-)

I think the pattern is nice, but maybe not for a boy. Also I had to concentrate very hard on it to not get lost in the spirals, so for the blanket I am happy I chose another pattern. 

For the second side of the pillow I pieced something similar to the quilt top with scraps of it. 

I wanted to try out parallel lines. I once saw a quilt only quilted with straight lines and I liked the simple look. But again (and a bit expected) I realised that this is only possible to do proper with a walking food. I don't have one and it's not possible to fix one to my very old machine. But I love my machine and will never change it for a new one - so whenever I feel again like quilting straight, I will borrow the machine of a friend (she will know of which friend I am talking when reading this ;-)) 

Anyway, the zig-zag effect caused by pulling the fabric with the quilting slightly to one side and the other, has also some charm.

The piping (?right word?) for the edges of the pillow I made the first time myself, what is much easier than I thought.

Below the pillow is closed with a zipper.

The finished size is about 55x55cm.

As my son left his quilt always on our sofa, the pillow has a place there too and so I can enjoy it every day now :-)

A bientôt,

Jane

Nearly end of fall

Before fall ends completely (I've seen snow on the mountains today!), I will show you two seasonal crafts before starting Christmas blog-posts (I already sewed an advent calendar!):

This craft I did already a month ago for my crafting classes. Inspiration with the chestnut in the middle is from pinterest, but I added goggly eyes to make sure everyone recognizes it's a spider in the middle!

I had the idea to use different wool from bright to dark, but if you look from further away the cobweb look like a german flag ;)

Last week when I had to drive somewhere I had kind of that view on the countryside road:

I love when it's a bit foggy and the trees are looming in the grey! In addition with the birds gathering to fly south (a bit late, isn't it?), there had been so much ambiance!

The background is watercolors, the birds are drawn by hand and the trees are stamped on white paper (I made the stamp some years ago), cut out and glued to the picture.

As I had lot's of trees left (stamping is so much fun:-) I made also this card. It said that there is no "fall blues" as you can find color in the grey!

We had several ugly rainy days and the leaves are falling faster now. Soon it will be winter!

A bientôt,

Jane