flannel LOVE

I walked into the fabric store 

and was immediately SUCKED IN

to the flannel isle!!!

Who can resist the CUTE prints they have there???

Good thing too.

I'm donating these to a family in need for the holidays.

Seven kids.

SEVEN chances to make a cute pillow case!

SEVEN cute flannel fabrics to CHOOSE!!!

SEVEN strips of cotton to POP in the middle there!

My fabric stash is an UNENDING source of POP goodness!

Yep.

I'm having fun!!!

Hey!

I even made a one for someone at MY house!!!

;)

Super SIMPLE last minute sewing project!!!

I made mine very much like this one.

My pillow case and coordinating fabric are flannel

My POP (trim) is cotton fabric

and 3" wide.

Hope you're able to SQUEEZE a little sewing in this week!

It's definitely a squeeze at this time of year!

Pillow Power!

If you can't make a quilt....

 Make a pillowcase!!!!

Or TWO!!!!

These are for a 9 year old boy who just

underwent a FIVE organ TRANSPLANT!!!

Talk about AMAZING!

Even better....

Here's an idea from my friend.....

Make pillowcases for the siblings who are at home and healthy.

They could really use some special attention too!!!!

I used an old pattern that is VERY similar to this one.

I made my accent strip wider though...

Instead of 1 1/2" like some patterns call for...

I cut mine 3"(much LESS fiddly). ;)

Another note about these pillowcases:

Be CAREFUL using directional prints!

I had a VERY hard time figuring out ...

wrapping my brain around....

which way to cut the fabric

so that the horses and cars were going side to side

and not UP AND DOWN!

I'm sure YOU won't have THAT problem though!!!!

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