the intrepid thread scrap challenge

I was super excited to be picked to participate in Rachel's Intrepid Thread Scrap Challenge.  The fabrics involved in the challenge are GORGEOUS, but one thing that I liked about participating is that they aren't colors that I normally use (though I don't know why because I loved working with them!).

When I commented on Rachel's blog to participate, I said that I would like to make some extra cushions for our floor.  We live in a cozy little two bedroom townhouse and we could never really have too many pillows for extra seating.

I started out by making this one using some black yarn-dyed essex linen to make stitch and flip triangles.  It fits a 24" pillow form.  When I finished this one up, I realized that there was plenty of fabric left to make a second pillow.

For this one I used half rectangle triangles using this tutorial. I quilted it by echoing the zig zag with lines 1 inch apart and then added a few zig zags of hand quilting in orange perle cotton.  It fits a 20 inch pillow form.

We have already put these guys to good use when hanging out in my kids room yesterday afternoon. They are nice for lounging.

For stacking.

And for tackling each other.

And here is the back.  I used this tutorial to finish them up.

My daughter insisted that she needed to take a photo of me with one of the pillows.  Yes, it's 3 in the afternoon and I'm still in my pajamas and have no makeup on.  It was a holiday, don't judge me!