Pillow talk swap...check.

• If you're here for the Garden Stars and Stripes Memorial Day Auction, go here.  (Closes Tuesday)
• If you're here for the Layer cake Giveaway, go here

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It's finished!

Fits a 24" pillow form.  Made using the template from this pattern, by Amber.  Being sent to its new home Tuesday (Mailbox is closed Monday).

What I love about this pillow:

- The interplay of focal prints and negative space.

- The way the coal grounds the corners

- The design shape

- The fact that it represents 7 different fabric collections, plus 3 solids (4 if you count the back)

- The fussy cutting

- That, in my opinion, taking a risk paid off

- The fact that I can't decide which is my favorite block.  

What I don't love about this pillow

- A couple of my seams didn't line up.

- In order to make it fit nicely on the 24" pillow form, I had to add extra seam allowance on the outside... which cuts off some of the medallion

That's about all I don't love about this pillow.  

Oh, that and the fact that I don't get to keep it.  (But I've started on one for my house already).

Oh, here's something else I don't love.  I am not very spatially intelligent (some might say I could get lost in my driveway...) and though I got my fussy-cutting in the right spot, and in the right direction... my envelope flap closes from the bottom... Hope my partner doesn't mind. I think the little strip of Hope Valley more than makes up for it.

What do you all think?