A pillow and a new WIP...

Well I'm sick of winter, how about you? I'm trying not to complain too much...but it does get old this 20 below zero weather. One of the few perks about winter is the excuse to hunker down inside with some hot tea, movies, and lots of soft blankets and pillows to snuggle under. Speaking of which, I have another pillow cover to share!

Look familiar? I had left over scraps from my Christmas stocking and couldn't bear (no pun intended!) to put them away. I had to use them up. I've been enamored with this scrappy improv diamond block lately and I thought it would make a fine pillow cover. Viola! Quick and simple winter pillow cover. I don't love my pillow form though, I think I went the cheap route when I bought this one and it's just too lumpy and floppy.

I've been having so much fun making sweet little baby quilts. Here's another one I started, a scrappy patchwork wonky star quilt. I'm really starting to rack up the scraps so I was determined to only use scraps for the patchwork in this quilt. Happily, most of squares I'm using were already cut to the right size. Score!

My inspiration came from this photo:
 

I love the colors in this quilt, contrasted with the white stars.

I made mine wonky...just because. Since I took these photos I've added another row and more blue squares. I'm starting to piece the blocks now. Our frigid weather does give me more sewing time at least!