Heart Pillows

I'm joining Kara for "Look what I made" party.

Well it's been a long time, but I got the old sewing machine out and made a couple of heart pillows. For, oh I don't know maybe 26 years I have had this old worn and stained quilt that my husbands grandmother had made. I mean it is old and it is worn, but I have loved it. I love quilts. See my previous post on quilts here.

Anyway I decided I needed to make a pillow from it. It was hard to find a spot that wasn't messed up or stained, so I didn't feel too bad about cutting it up, because I have thought about doing something like this for years with this old quilt. I honestly couldn't cut up any of my other quilts, but this one seems to be appropriate. Anyway it is the same pattern front and back. Whatcha think? I have this great big quilt book and I looked this pattern up. It is an Amish pieced quilt, called Solomon's Puzzle. Outside of the Amish circles it is known as Drunkard's Path. I like the first name better, but anyway how cool is this? Love it even more now that I know the name. Wish I had met my husbands grandmother before she passed away in the late 70's. I thought the old scale next to the pillow made a nice vignette.

Now this is a smaller heart pillow that I made to mail to Kim at Daisy Cottage, she is collecting heart pillows to give to a widow of one of her followers, Tabitha, who lost her battle with cancer recently. If you have never seen Kim's blog you will understand how this woman gained strength and encouragement from Kim's skillful, thoughtful posts. See the letter that her husband shared with Kim here and the pillow sharing idea here.

So in thinking about what I needed to put this pillow together, I thought of the GW. So while there I found a quilted placemat that had a heart in the middle of it. So I cut it out and used the backing from the placemat too.