{"id":13401,"date":"2012-05-16T06:25:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T13:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:28:33","slug":"nsgw-pillows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/nsgw-pillows\/","title":{"rendered":"NSGW Pillows"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"NSGW<\/a>
NSGW Pillows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was back in pillow hell on Monday, except that it wasn’t really hellish. I made four pillows using embroidery panels<\/a> my SIL and I created on her embroidery machine when I was in Maryland\/DC last year. My part in that was saying yes or no to colors of thread and whether the letters should be curved or not. She is the embroidery queen and I was just her humble assistant.<\/p>\n

\"Embroidery<\/a>
Embroidery panel (1 of 4)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While I was in Maryland, we made a few pillows for the Native Daughters, of which we are both lurker members, but I took the embroidered panels home to make the Native Sons pillows later. As I have mentioned, my DH in on the Board of Trustees of a non-profit. When they are running for off their parlor (e.g. chapter) sponsors a hospitality suite at the Grand Parlor (e.g. annual conference). In the hospitality suite, they play cards, offer liquid refreshments and raise money for their Cleft Palate charity<\/a> using raffles. For the past year or two, since DH has been running, I have made pillows for him to raffle off. They were wildly popular the first year and he raised a record amount for the charity.<\/p>\n

Guess what?<\/p>\n

“Later” is this weekend! Can you say last minute? I wasn’t planning on spending my day off making pillows, but this coming Saturday would be even more last minute, so I did the job. I was prepared for drama and there was none. I think I only had to rip out one seam. I measured correctly, counted properly and generally made 4 pillows in record time.<\/p>\n

\"Batting<\/a>
Batting Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The big difference was that Cathy, my SIL, suggested using batting as a foundation. It makes the block look nice and gives the maker a goal. You cut the batting the size (including seam allowance, so if finished is 14″ you cut the batting 14.5″, etc) you want the pillow and then sew on top of it. I don’t know how this would work if you didn’t have a flip and sew friendly pattern, but I am sure there is a way to figure that out.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the pillows are done and packaged ready to head to NSGW<\/a> Grand Parlor. DH was pleased and I am going to the dentist and then am going to work on something fun that doesn’t feel like “quilt work.”<\/p>\n

The Sunday Stash Report (a la Pam at Hip to be a Square<\/a> podcast) is 2 yards. More on that later.<\/p>\n

Nota bene<\/strong><\/em>: if you think there are photos missing, there are. I am having trouble uploading some pictures to the blog. Check back later. It will be resolved eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was back in pillow hell on Monday, except that it wasn’t really hellish. I made four pillows using embroidery panels my SIL and I created on her embroidery machine when I was in Maryland\/DC last year. My part in that was saying yes or no to colors of thread and whether the letters should … Continue reading “NSGW Pillows”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[128,355,86,136,251],"class_list":["post-13401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-completed-project","tag-doing-good","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-pillows","tag-political-wifery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}