Hola! It’s Fran from Cotton and Joy back with the second pattern of the holiday pillows series! If you missed the first one, you can find it here.
As I mentioned before, quick projects like pillow covers are one of my favorite ways to infuse some holiday cheer into my home without spending tons of money in a quick and fun way. Today’s project is perfect to use up some of those scraps we all have lying around in our sewing rooms. The second pillow in this series is a Christmas-inspired scrappy ornament pillow. Over the last 3 years I’ve had the pleasure of participating in a fun QAL called Quiltmas, this scrappy ornament was my very first block I shared and I’ve adapted it for this pillow cover. I used some solid scraps I had left over from various projects I did throughout this year.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 haha.
Instructions
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 don’t usually go with quilting this dense but it’s perfect for this pillow cover. And I didn’t have to mark any lines – I just lined up the edge of my walking foot with the seams on the pillow cover to guide me.
After adding a binding to my pillow cover, I just had to do it for this one as well. I went with a stripes-on-the-bias fabric from Riley Blake that I had in my stash and I love how simple, but Christmas-y it is.
Another fun touch I added to this pillow cover was this decorative stitch on the envelope back pieces. I used one of the applique stitches while tacking down the raw edges on the back pieces and it’s such a fun, unexpected detail!
Download the PDF pattern here!
I hope you enjoyed this project and don’t forget to come back for the future seasonal/holiday pillow projects!
Fran, xo