I’ve been piecing two pillow shams for our bed. Remember The Villager quilt I finished a few months ago? That quilt is currently on our bed and I have wanted to make pillow shams for this quilt. Of course, a couple of pillow shams will probably lead to a few deco-pillows after that….
I needed 12 Nine Patch blocks to continue the overall design of the quilt and while I gathered the leftovers of my two white background fabrics, I realized I didn’t have enough of the tone-on-tone for the full borders.
The main section of each pillow sham has 6 Nine Patch blocks set on point.
If only I had measured the remaining tone-on-tone fabric before I decided to place two 5-inch squares into each of these shams, I’d have enough for a full border around each sham. But no, I didn’t do that, so I will need to improvise with piecing. How novel. 
Today I’m adding the tone-on-tone borders and the corner sections. The large collection of scrappy 2-inch squares I cut from my scrap boxes have been very productive. I will probably make another for my brother, Michael, using these scraps, too.
Tags: Patchwork, Pillow Shams
