Anniversary Pillows FINISHED!

Today is the 2 year anniversary of the Los Angeles Modern Quilt Guild! woo hoo! To celebrate we're having a swap at our meeting tonight! Last month, we exchanged scraps - the challenge was to make something for our partner with their scraps adding only 1 fabric! My partner loves pillows so I made her these.

It took me a while to settle on a concept for the pillows. I was daunted because I had so many scraps to start with and I was trying to think of a way to use a lot of them. I started out with this hexagon log cabin idea but then changed my mind and decided to do something with flying geese.

A disclaimer: I've never made flying geese before. I've also never tried paper piecing. But I'm pretty adventurous to learn new things and when Aimee from Boston MQG shared this tutorial with me it really didn't seem that complicated.

I love how this first one turned out. The only down side was that it did feel like it took forever. {pin, sew, press, trim} repeat  32 times. I'm much more of a chain piecing speed sewist. And I still had WAY too many scraps still left unused.

So I decided to push ahead and make a second pillow but this time reversing the block with the geese in white and the background scrappy. I love the way they look together as if the geese flew off one pillow and landed on the other.

On the back I made a closure with a lapped zipper and added these labels towards the bottom. I can't wait to give them to her at tonight's meeting!