hedgehog parade

Here is my hedgehog parade :

Christmas is coming quickly. This year I am going to spend the festive season with my Mum in Prague. As I have 5 kids in the family, I was thinking about some sewn presents for them. Two years ago I made these pillow covers : birds and planes. This year I came over a wonderful hedgehog pattern for a pillow cover or a quilt by Elizabeth Hartman.

So here I am – sewing 5 little hedgehogs for the kids. The pattern is very clear and all steps are well explained. I have followed the color palette suggestion in the pattern. This time I got out my stash box with all the solids. I am happy how the hedgehogs turned out – gloriously colorful and bright!

All pillow covers are free-motion quilted, each with a color matching thread. I have used different quilting threads from my stock : Mettler – Quilting Cotton 40/3, Cotton Patch – Cotty 40/3, Superior Threads – King Tut 40/3 and Gutermann – Sulky 30.

The backing fabric I have bought some time ago. It has in the pattern all the colors I have used for the hedgehogs. All pillow covers have zippers on the back – here a quick and easy to follow tutorial by Riley Blake Designs.

Happy quilting, have wonderful weekend, Barbora

20 comments on “hedgehog parade”

guerillagarms says:

11/12/2015 at 11:24

These look fantastic, and I bet they were pretty fun to make too. I wonder if there’ll be a scramble for the pink one!

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skalabara says:

13/12/2015 at 09:51

Thanks, hope not! Since I have visited your blog, I think I should start sewing my clothes. Once again, I uses to do it as a young girl.

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- guerillagarms says:
  
  13/12/2015 at 11:15
  
  Really hope you get back into it! 🙂
  
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