patchwork pillow, cheese extravaganza

I've been really bad about not posting because I was totally distracted by the anticipation of and participation in A Super Rad Wisconsin Cheese Weekend with a couple of my cheesemonger friends. We went to the Wisconsin Cheese Originals Annual Festival in Madison, where we tried lots of delicious cheese (Rush Creek Reserve - hooray! If you like stinky, gooey, washed-rind cheese, this is the one for you) and shopped at Fromagination, pictured above. Aside from lovely cheese, they also carry these beautiful marshmallows from a company called Butter. I bought some rose flavored ones and devoured them all myself. What a great weekend! We had some great meals at Nostrano and Sardine and just pigged out generally. Then I came home and made this little pillow from bits and pieces of all the lovely fabrics I've been collecting. I put it in my shop on Etsy, and I will definitely be making more.

Unicorn Pillow

I finished my unicorn pillow. I thought about embroidering some more details on the unicorn and adding some yellow flowers around it, but then I thought I might ruin the simplicity of it. I tried to imitate the shape of the unicorns of the fabric, I love their plump bellies and round faces. They remind me of fat little shetland ponies. So sweet!

Plans

So, for a while now I've been wanting to start a larger quilt with a kind of pinwheel pattern using black and pastel colored triangles. Now that I finally finished the lap quilt, I am starting to cut about a gazillion small triangles. The second picture shows the fabrics I plan to use. The orange one on the left is by Heather Ross for Kokka, bought at the Needle Shop in Chicago. The three in the middle came from fabricworm's shop on Etsy, so pretty! The black/gray fabric came from Joann's. Lastly, I also bought a yard of this gauzy unicorn print (another Kokka) at the Needle Shop. I love this kind of bright orange and the hand-drawn style of the unicorns. I thought I might make a pillow using this and some wool felt I usually use for hooked rugs. I cut out a unicorn from the white to sew on top of the dark green...We'll see how it turns out.