Recently I bought Denyse Schmidt Quilts and when I first flipped through the book I was pretty underwhelmed. Somehow the projects weren’t what I expected. The main reason I bought this book was in the hope of finding tips & tricks on how to make quilts but it didn’t offer anything new from what I had learned from the web.

Two weeks later I cought a cold and had to stay at home, so I picked up the book again and somehow I felt the urge to do a project from it. Since I hadn’t the supplies for a quilt at home, let alone the energy, I decided to make a pillow. So I used her “Hits The Spot Pillow” as an inspiration, but I changed a few things. First I didn’t sew in the circles like she suggested but used Steam-a-Seam and then stitched them on. For every circle I used a different colored thread and a different stitch. I also did some free-hand machine stitching around each “bullseye”.

To give it a final touch I used a thread from the main fabric and hand stitched every inner circle with a different stitch: french knot, running stitch and split stitch.

I’m pretty happy how it turned out and spending some time with the book I found a few other projects I’ll definitely gonna try. Even thou the quilts still scare the crap out of me :)