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The fabric to this pillow has kind of a bittersweet story behind it.

My stepdaughter’s Nana passed away a few years ago.  Sadly, their grandfather passed away last summer.  They were the parents of my husband’s first wife and both died at a young age.   Tori & Liz (my stepdaughters) were close with both of them and we actually lived down the street from their grandfather.

The girls mother recently sold her parents house.  When going through her mother’s sewing supplies she gave me all of the fabrics she found.   I was sorting through some of it a few days ago and came across a group of partially finished half square triangles.

I have no idea what she was making with them, it’s not enough fabric for a quilt and the cream fabric is actually a canvas.

Most of her sewing was clothing for the girls when they were younger, so a lot of it is knits and fabrics I can’t use for quilting.  Finding these HST pieces I thought Tori & Liz would like seeing something from their Nana’s fabrics around the house.

It’s the same on block on both sides with the colors in reverse.   The form is a nice fluffy feather pillow.

Feather forms are SO much cheaper to buy as a finished pillow than a pillow form!  I buy pillows at Bed, Bath and Beyond or Tuesday Morning when they have them on clearance.  Just toss the ugly cover they come with!

Since the dogs always make little nests of our pillows I prefer finished front and backs over envelopes.   The full zipper makes it easy to toss in the wash.

I really like the cream and black polka dots together.  Makes me wonder what the original intention for these fabrics were.

Don’t you just love making baby gifts?  A friend of mine just had a sweet little baby girl named Beatrice Birdie.  Is that not the cutest name ever?

I already knew I was going to send her the Superstar quilt with the crochet edges if she had a girl.  But that didn’t seem like enough so I added a couple of burp cloths.

Then I decided with a middle name like Birdie I just had to make an applique onesie:

THEN I decided she needed a new bib as well.  (I could seriously go crazy making baby things)

This is the smallest patchwork I’ve worked with, they are 1″ squares. Now I really appreciate all those teeny tiny patchwork pieces I see.

The backing of the bib and burp cloth are white cotton chenille. I find it washes up really nicely and actually absorbs quite a bit.

Now I’m finally happy with the gift and it’s in the mail!

What is your favorite baby item to make and give?

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