Maybe it has something to do with the Christmas tree coming down.
Maybe it has to do with the freshly painted walls and imminent placement of new flooring in a few of our house's rooms.
Maybe it has to do with the single digit degree temperature.
It is probably a mixture of it all.
All that I am sure of is that I can't keep my fingers busy enough! There is so much that I want to do....Now that the holidays are officially over there is a lull in the air that has stirred my desire to craft.
On the top of the list was our Advent pillow.
I had ironed the stack of quilting square satchels once that the Advent tree was taken down and they stared at me for a few days while I considered what to do with them. I knew, of course, that they would become a pillow, but I definitely wanted to jazz it up a bit.
For the pillow construction, I had sewn the 25 squares together into a square as the front of the pillow.
Then for the back if the pillow, I used some of the lovely blue flannel that I had received from Heather of Blooming Heather from the Vintage Swap back in October.
I then stuffed it plump with this stuffing called "Cluster Stuff".
Have you ever used this stuff? What a NIGHTMARE....it is all of these little balls of fluff that didn't want to cooperate with me and then ended up flying all over the room when I tried to pack it into the too small hole that I had made in the pillow!
Seriously, unless you like a struggle....avoid this stuff....-I-N-G.
About an hour later, I was able to sew the hole shut with a whip stitch.
Then I had to decide on a little detail.
I had all of that amazing yarn and a stack of gorgeous doilies from Heather's care package that was just burning a hole in my pocket.
Surely, I could spare one little doily and some yarn.
I placed the doily at the center of the front of the pillow and then, using a large needle and 2 strands of the fingerling yarn, I stitched the doily into place.
(Sharpie....so it won't wash off)
When all was said and done, I wrote a reminder on the back of the pillow.
A reminder of the year that my boy was five.
A reminder of the year that his Great Grandma Bam passed away.
A reminder of the year that I rekindled my love of crafting.
A reminder of the year that I found my place in the land of Blog.
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A pillow to remember it all by.
