Vote Now and Give-Away: Quilted Pillows
Hi everyone!
It’s time to vote and enter the give-away for this week’s Quilters’ Show & Tell event. This week’s theme is Quilted Pillows. I am thrilled with the huge number of submissions this week. All of the quilted pillows are so unique and gorgeous.
Our guest judges for this week are Jackie from Canton Village Quilt Works and Sarah from Sew Joy Creations. They’ll both have 100 bonus points to award to their favourite quilted pillow(s).
Give-Away: Quilters’ Cookbooks
For this week’s event, I’ll be giving away copies of the two Quilters’ Cookbooks that I put together from recipes submitted by quilters around the world. The top two quilters with the most votes (from the community plus guest judges) will win a PDF copy of both cookbooks. I’ll also award both copies randomly to two individuals that leave a comment below.
To enter the give-away, leave a comment below answering: What’s your favourite basting method? Any tips to share?
You have until noon Monday, March 11, 2013 (EDT) to enter the give-away.
This Week’s Quilts
Here are this week’s Quilted Pillows:
Please note: if you are viewing this post via email or your RSS reader, you’ll need to click through to the blog post to see the quilts and vote.
Vote Now
Now it’s time for you to vote for your favourites!
- Voting is open Friday to Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. (DST)
- One vote per person (based on IP address NOT email address), so have your family and friends cast a ballot for their favourite quilt
- Winner announced Monday evening
How to Vote:
- Review the photos above and make a note of your favourites. You can select up to SIX favourites this week.
- Below, you’ll see the names of all the quilts with a square button beside each one. Select the buttons for the quilts you want to vote for. Then scroll down, all the way, until you get to the bottom of the list of quilt names. Press the vote button.
Quilted Pillows
- Hartjeskussen (26%, 171 Votes)
- Holiday Lane (19%, 125 Votes)
- Sedona Star (17%, 111 Votes)
- Lucy's Shooting Star Pillow (12%, 79 Votes)
- Christmas pillow (11%, 74 Votes)
- Crazy for P.E.O. (11%, 70 Votes)
- Paisley Swirls (9%, 62 Votes)
- Linked (9%, 61 Votes)
- Butterfly Garden Cushions (9%, 61 Votes)
- water Lily (9%, 58 Votes)
- Rainbow Pillow (9%, 57 Votes)
- EPP pillow (9%, 57 Votes)
- Spinning Canoes (7%, 44 Votes)
- Patchwork Pillow (7%, 43 Votes)
- Water Pixie (6%, 40 Votes)
- Snowflake Pillow (5%, 36 Votes)
- Antonia's Butterflies (5%, 32 Votes)
- Kirigami Snowflake Pillow (4%, 28 Votes)
- Pillow Hunting trophies (4%, 28 Votes)
- Radiating Dresden (4%, 25 Votes)
- Kristen's Cathedral Window (4%, 25 Votes)
- May your home always be....too small to hold all of your friends. (4%, 24 Votes)
- I Love Roses (3%, 22 Votes)
- Aqua and Pink Rag Quilted Pillow (3%, 22 Votes)
- flea market fancy scrappy trip pillow (3%, 22 Votes)
- Tara's Pillow (3%, 22 Votes)
- Stripes Squared (3%, 21 Votes)
- Pay it Forward Pillow (3%, 21 Votes)
- Cat Pillow (3%, 19 Votes)
- Escape from the Quilt Police pillow (3%, 19 Votes)
- Three Angles (3%, 19 Votes)
- Kona Solids Challenge pillows (3%, 17 Votes)
- Stained Glass Pillow Shams (3%, 17 Votes)
- Quilted Pillow (3%, 17 Votes)
- Enchantment (2%, 16 Votes)
- Tickled 1.0 (2%, 15 Votes)
- swim, said the mama (2%, 14 Votes)
- Spring in my home (2%, 14 Votes)
- Flower Pillow (2%, 12 Votes)
- Rylans pillow (2%, 11 Votes)
- Bug's Pillow (2%, 10 Votes)
- Lee's Gift (2%, 10 Votes)
- Facets Pillow (2%, 10 Votes)
- Nostlagic Posie Pillow (2%, 10 Votes)
- Stack 'n' Slash (2%, 10 Votes)
- Lovely Dreams (1%, 9 Votes)
- Purple with a touch of Silver (1%, 9 Votes)
- Elissa's Pillow (1%, 9 Votes)
- Butterfly Pillows (1%, 8 Votes)
- pillow (barbara woods) (1%, 7 Votes)
- The Incredible Pillow (1%, 7 Votes)
- Batik String Pillow (1%, 6 Votes)
- A Pillow Fit For A Queen (1%, 5 Votes)
- Pillow Talk (1%, 4 Votes)
- Scrappy Quilt-As-You-Go Pillow (1%, 4 Votes)
- Children at Play (0%, 3 Votes)
- Pillows blue (0%, 3 Votes)
- Memories (0%, 2 Votes)
Total Voters: 658
Loading ...Next Week’s Show & Tell
The theme for next week’s Quilters’ Show & Tell event is Green Love (St. Patrick’s Day). Any quilting style is acceptable as long as your quilt has lots of GREEN. Unfinished quilt tops are welcome as well.
Read the Guidelines and submit your photo before next Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 11 p.m. (EDT).
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Posted: March 8th, 2013
Topics: Quilt Gallery, Special Features
Tags: Give-Aways, Quilters' Show & Tell
Basting is not a favorite activity LOL but the only one I use is curved safety pins, and lots of them!
So many beautiful pillows. I consider myself a slow beginner, and haven’t had a need to baste yet. Hopefully I’ll get to that point soon.
All the pilows are beautiful and so much inspiration!
Thanks for the eye candy.
I use the curved basting pins. I prefer the larger ones, plus I use one of those short wooden dowels thingies to close them…saves my fingers.
All of the pillows are so beautiful that I had trouble picking my favorites. Basting is my least favorite part of quilting. I usually use the curved pins, but I have also hand basted with thread. It takes me about 3 hours to thread baste a large quilt and kills my back, so I don’t do it that way much.
I use spring clamps (permanently borrowed from DH’s tools) to clamp my project to my cutting table over my big mat. Then I just use a needle and thread to go back and forth. Fortunately most of my projects are small.
I’ve tried spray basting a couple of times. It was definitely an outdoor activity (not good in winter) and requires assistance — and not from the cat! I also tried the fusible batting once and didn’t like the hard spots it left.
When I gave to baste I always use spray basting spray. Sometimes though a good press wil be enough, if the project is small.
I baste fast with long stitches, basically just to hold the pieces of fabric together. Sometimes I use small stainless steel safety pins to baste.
I haven’t used basting spray but I have used fusible batting which adheres when you iron with steam and that is far less tricky than basting with curved pins.
Hand basting with long stitches
Love the pillows
Some wonderful cushions this week. For basting the best tip I can give is to take your time, nothing worse than rushing it and finding the backing is scrunched up. I also love the spray glue or else I take my time and hand baste depends on how I am quilting it.
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
I am thinking of making new covers for my sofa cushions so enjoyed this bit of inspiration.
Basting? I usually use basting thread and big stitches but If I plan to use a hoop, I may pin baste.
I use my sewing machine to baste if I am in a hurry, otherwise I do it by hand.
So many beautiful pillows it was hard to choose a favorite. When I read the question about basting my first response was “back basting”. I use this method for hand applique. I use a very large embroidery needle and button thread.
It was hard to choose just 6 favorite pillows. I baste with spray many times, but always use a few pins. Other times I baste all with pins. Basting is not my favorite thing to do.
Wonderful pillows…Lots of talent and inspirationg.
I spray baste and have never had a problem.
I love spray baste. If the quilt is too big for that I use curved safety pins
I hadn baste. I tried safety pins, but they didn’t work as well. I am going to try spray basting sometime.
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I use Safety Pins to Baste a Quilt..Though I may try basting w/spray also next time….