A new pillow

A new pillow is gracing my family room sofa for February.

This is the squirrel that I was following, and it was a quick finish.  The pattern is actually for an 18" pillow but I cut it down to 16".   It does still need a 16" pillow form to really fill it out, but I had a 14" one in the closet so that will do for now.  The applique was a little "putzy" to cut out all those tiny holes scattered among the hearts.  I made the decision to not do any stitching around all those pieces after fusing them down.  

Instead I did matchstick quilting, every half inch to hold everything down.  The envelope back is a fun heart print fat quarter that was in the stash.  Even the background was in the stash.  I bound the pillow with the same pink as the heart applique.

The pattern is Forever Love by Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings.  It was offered free on her blog last week through February 16, but can be purchased online now.  I follow her blog, so was quick enough to download it while it was free.  Lucky me!!