Completed Cathedral Windows!

Update:  Sharing this for Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story
Can you believe it?  Friday Night Sew In Success!! 

Here's my completed Cathedral Windows Pillow.

I am so pleased with how it turned out.

But, I had a hard time finding a spot to photograph it.

  Seemed too fancy for my living room.

Here's a few more views.

I learned so much from this project.

Of course the cathedral windows were a first.

But I also got to try a basting spray to keep

all those windows in place as I sewed and found it worked well.

And, I learned how to make my own piping,

thanks to a little help from my zipper foot.

I used fabric from one of the windows.

The most exciting part was putting that pillow form in and seeing the finished cushion!

A very special thanks to Melissa at Make Life Beautiful

for her wonderful tutorial and her encouragement all along the way!

I definitely want to make another one someday!

Hope your weekend has been productive!

And Sew on and Sew Forth...

I spent all day saturday and a good amount of sunday sewing.  And it felt sew good!  First up...cuz I'm so excited...I sewed all the buttons to my Cathedral Window pillow. 

I had to go back to purchase the rest of the buttons I needed and do you know that there were exactly enough packages of the style I needed?  It was definitely "meant to be"!

Remember, the one in the center is a little different style and slightly larger than the rest, however looking at it now, it really doesn't look that much bigger.  Here's the complete layout.

I just love this pattern and technique and am still amazed that someone could come up with the idea.  I'm just happy to have a pattern to follow!  I still have a little ways to go to complete the pillow.  I'd started sewing the piping but decided I need some thread better matched to my fabric (can you see the stitching?).  I just laid it along the edge to get the general effect. (That's not exactly where it's going.)

Anyway, it's coming along!

Also finished my blocks for the two swaps I'm in and here are the sneak peeks.

Let's Bee Together

For: Melinda who sent the fabric and left the block up to me.

 Block Swap Adventure

For: Sue, who likes Batiks, Greens and Blues (hard to see the green in the dark batik but in real life it pops out due to the green in the second fabric).

And, I finally got back to my Flutterby quilt (with the 3D butterflies) and finished 6 more blocks.  Decided I needed to order more of that Dream On fabric to finish it the way I want.

Oh darn...had to stop and shop!

Sew... there you have it!  Enjoy your week.