Hola! It’s Fran from Cotton and Joy back with the third pattern of the holiday pillows series! If you missed the first two, you can find them here and here. . 

Quick projects like pillow covers are so fun and quick to make, and one of my favorite ways to infuse some holiday or seasonal fun into our home without spending tons of money. 

The third pillow in this series is Valentine’s Day-inspired scrappy pillow. The romantic in me can’t help but love Valentine’s and adding little touches of Valentine’s inspired decor to my home so it doesn’t look so sad after all the Christmas decorations come down. And it’s perfect to use up some of those scraps we all have in our sewing rooms!

Download your free PDF Scrappy Heart Valentine's Day Quilted Pillow Cover Pattern HERE!  

Once again, I wish I had taken more pictures of the process but this came together so quickly, I didn’t even have time to!

For quilting, I decided to do my go-to quilting - straight line quilting! I used the walking foot on my Janome 9450 and quilted lines half an inch apart. I just lined up the edge of my walking foot with the seams on the heart and around the pillow cover to help guide me. 

Lately, I have been loving the look of binding on pillow covers. For this one, I used one of the brighter solids on the heart for a nice contrast with the light blue on the background.

I hope you enjoyed this project and don’t forget to come back for future seasonal/holiday pillow projects!

Fran, xo

Welcome back to the Rainbow Quilt Block of the Month designed by Janome Maker Carolina Oneto! You are almost through the whole quilt! 

This month we will make our eleventh block. Carolina sews all the blocks on her Janome 1600P-QC. She recommends you to use a stitch length between 2.0 and 2.2, but this sewing machine is capable of stitch length variable up to a maximum of 6mm!

Remember that all the blocks will have a finished size of 12” so that means the unfinished size will be 12 1/2”

Fabrics:
White background

• Sixteen 2 1/2” squares
• One 5 1/2” square

Red

• ·Two  5 1/2” squares

Orange

• Five  4 1/2” squares

Yellow

• One 5 1/2” square

INSTRUCTION FOR SQUARE-IN-A-SQUARE UNITS
Mark the wrong side of the white 2 1/2″ squares in half once diagonally. Lay a marked square right sides together with a light green 4 1/2″ square and sew on the marked line. Repeat on the diagonally opposite corner. Repeat on the other corners.Make 5. Unit measures 4 1/2″ unfinished.

Instructions for making HST two at a time

Do this process with the 2 red squares of 5 1/2” and the two squares of the same size in yellow and white. You will assemble 4 half-square triangles.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE QUARTER SQUARE TRIANGLES

• To make a QST take two HST’s from the previous step (one red-white and one red-yellow) and place them right sides together with opposite colors touching.
• Use a pencil or water soluble marker and draw a line from corner to corner, bisecting the HST seam.
• On both sides of the diagonal line, stitch a 1/4” seam.
• Using an acrylic quilter’s ruler and rotary cutter, cut along the pencil line.
• Trim the blocks to a 4 1/2” square

FINAL ASSEMBLY 

• Arrange your blocks in correct layout
• Using a quarter inch seam allowance, sew together in rows. Join all rows, using a quarter inch seam allowance.
• Press your completed block and trim down to 12.5″ square (if necessary).

You can still start today and catch up with the Janome Rainbow Block of the Month by visiting the links below:

Block One     HERE

Block Two     HERE

Block Three  HERE

Block Four    HERE

Block Five    HERE

Block Six      HERE 

Block Seven  HERE   

Block Eight   HERE

Block Nine  HERE

Block Ten HERE

After you make your block, we’d love to see them!

Janome Sewing Classroom

Janome America Instagram – Be sure to tag @janomeamerica and use the hashtag #janomemakes and also tag @carolinaoneto!