Pugs on a Motorcycle Quillow
EH? Okay, wasn't my idea.... He asked for it... The rest is sort of matching colors and other likes.....
What is a quillow? A quillow is a quilt that folds into a pillow. The pillow pocket it folds into is just the right size for feet, so when you get cozy in your quillow you can stick your feet in the pillow pocket.
What is a quilt? A quilt can be simply two pieces of fabric-(any kind) with some batting in between and sewn together like a sandwich. Most quilts have at least one side a pieced piece and the other side one long piece to back the quilt. Quilting is the act of sewing the sandwich of three pieces together. When you are sewing squares or shapes together for a quilt, usually you are piecing the top. Many stores sell quilt back which is wider so you don't have to piece the back at all and it makes it simpler and quicker.
On this quillow, I am piecing both the top and the back and then sewing or quilting the layers together. Then you center the pillow pocket and sew it to one of the sides. The pillow pocket will be on the minky side of this quillow, so you can pull the minky around you and then slide your feet into the pocket.
I do have an accuquilt cutter so the base of the cotton squares will be cut with the accuquilt cutter. That part will be faster. The actual pugs on many of the squares will be appliqued and padded to give a little 3-dimensional feel to the doggies.
I will take pictures of each step.
THE BIG PLAN
This is not to scale... but it is the starting Plan-started
Started with 3 yards of Minky 108 x 60+
Top piecing will be mostly cottons... might use some minky for some borders...I kind of wing it by how much fabric I have and how things look as I place them-
The Back will be Black Minky and Brown Minky Pieced in large Rectangles Framed by Bordor... the size will be larger than Batting and be brought around to fold over 3 inches on the front. This is showing you how I plan the Border sizes and the actual squares of the Themed Quilt... and then the Pillow Pocket is 1/2 Yard folded over and sewn onto the Minky Back so it has a theme on both sides of the pillow pocket. The center Square Quilt Patch is a central theme... The 4 corner Squares will be the same... Then the two quilt squares on either side of the center repeat and etc.
You have to plan the backing if you don't have all one color... I have two pieces of the luxury soft minky that GStreetFabrics Sells... I use the measures and borders plan for the front and plan the back accordingly, not knowing my quilting design I can stitch in the ditch and be in the same seams.
I have cut the Batting to size
The True Color is Center Chocolate and the borders are Black Minky
The Backing is sewn together but not the pillow pocket square yet.
Batting is cut to size first... then backing is done and laid under the batting ... then Front Quilt Squares are done... Sewn together with borders and laid on top... Then Pinned to fit and quilted from the center out. Backing pulled to front to bind after all is quilted... Pillow Pocket centered and sewn on... and then Voila.
These are the Pugs in different positions... so we can applique the ones that look appropriate for the activity
Planned squares... Corners... Pugs in Hats in a Crowd
Pugs in a Pickup Truck
Pugs Playing Baseball
CenterPugs at Cabin and Hiking on Rocks
Pugs at the cabin
Pugs on the Dock or on a chair
Pugs in a boat or on the Dock
Pugs Playing Football with a helmet on
Pugs Riding Bikes being a courier
Pugs Riding Motorcycle on Pillow Pocket
This is the other team of pugs when playing football and baseball
This is the strip borders because it has a little brown and black through it so I thing it will bring it together
The Grayed borders are the blended cotton
The black and brown are just that with minky
Well here are some of the squares placed on the border strip fabric...Pugs will be in the back of the pickup truck, sitting on the adirondack chairs-helmets on to play football, on the hat print they will be outline quilted through the batting so the pugs are slightly padded when you look at it wherever the dogs are.
Dogs will be riding the bicycles and outlined on the doggies taking selfies square
Pugs will be added to the seat of the motorcycle squares
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Pugs will be riding these motorcycles on the pillow pocket and reverse side of the pillow pocket
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As you can see the pugs are going to go on this motorcycle on the quillow itself... This is just the layout.
This is the two teams... playing football they will have a football appliqued between them and helmets on their heads...
These pugs went on vacation and are lazing on the dock, of course observing the ducks
This pug is at the cabin, but he is looking for everybody else, he must have got there first.... Nope we are going to put boots on him and give him a fishing hat and a fishing rod with a sign 'Gone Fishing'
bicycle courier ... he gets a helmet, and his legs will be corrected
These pugs are lounging on the Adirondack chairs at the cabin
Yes, pugs play baseball
Pugs are Hiking -resting at the rocks square
Pugs are riding and driving the pickup truck
There will be bowling pugs, vegetable truck pugs, and food truck pugs... working on how those will be.. and take away the repeat squares.....Yeah Yeah, I got carried away... but I will laugh about this one a long time, and they both will get matching neckrolls to their quilts.
All of these are going to be fine tuned i.e. the one driving will be looking out the window or the windshield- on others there will helmets and adjustments to things like legs
We are getting closer... working on the details
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Pugs Hiking
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Pugs Playing Football
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Pugs Playing Baseball
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Pug Gone Fishin'
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Pugs in Pickups
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Pugs on the Dock
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Pugs Drivin' Food Trucks
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Pugs in Backwards Baseball Caps
Pugs in Detective Caps
Pugs Bowling
Pug Bicycle Courier... still needs some details
Pugs Chillin'
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Pugs In Farm Business Driving Vegetable Truck and Tractor
Pugs on the motorcycle quillow top block
Pugs Quillow pieced top Details- Remember this is actually a mock up.. so the borders are cotton, not minky and the binding is minky pulled around from the back- so the coloring of the two framing borders will be a cotton-muted blender color and flat black solid for inside border.
OOPS! Things Change As I am doing things... I believe I am going to change one of the pickup truck blocks to Pug Goes Golfing... You will see in the final Quillow Picture!
I might have found him a golfing visor hat... LOL-done and placed in top plan
I am thinking of adding a pug flying an airplane over the golf course - if I can fit it when I put his hat on.... Then Ready to put it all together...
Exciting Final Stages...
Here are the squares after being appliqued, but not puffed yet.
Each square has been satin stitched around appliqued items, and now they will be puffed appropriately by outline quilting each animal and some of their clothing- like helmets etc.... .and then of course the real quilting through the sandwich-the piecing will be done with the borders and then after back is applied the sandwich will be stitch in the ditch mostly around the squares themeselves....Done... sewing the details now!
I am in the process of sewing the borders on.. I am doing the side borders on each middle square, pressing open the seams and the sewing the in between the rows borders... BUT, I wasn't paying attention and I put them out of order at the bottom and had to do a seam rip... YIKES... what a waste of time... I could have padded a few dogs in the wasted time... So, NO, I am not finished... I am padding each pug dog star on each square... I did the first row and then decided to do the borders and go back to doing the padding before I finish sewing the quilt together...But I love looking at them!!!
First set of borders are on and pressed, now I am going to do the black.... This is so you can see how each thing enhances it.
Next we will add the wide brown grunge border.. For the wide grunge border I bought 2.25 yards of the fabric and cut 5.5 inch strips to make 5 inch border- 4 which does the brown all the way around(55026).... The black and the neutral blender were using 2.5 inch strips(55017 which make 2 inch borders using again 2.25 yards so I could cut strips without piecing the borders. The blocks also were cut using the Go -(55451) which cut 10 inch squares making the finished blocks 9.5 inches. I have an Accuquilt cutter, so I folded the fabric for the borders and ran it through my electric Go... so the cutting took no time-barely a minute each section.
Hopefully you can see how great these borders look colorwise.
Looking Good To Me
I decided to add soccer to the reversible pillow pocket... LOL... I just had to show this in the works -looks like they are trying hard...HA
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Request was browns and earth tones.... to go with this quillow.... (HERS) oh well, his is a little more colorful
When HER quilt is finished and open
When HER quilt is a Pillow
He got cold watching how cozy she was!
This will be his requested theme, but she wants it to match hers in color ranges....
Batting will be cut to slightly bigger than the backing and then the front will be pieced and squared to fill in the size correctly
It is easier to bring the back around to bind the front....especially if you are using something thick and plush like minky
A few Inches of scaling down will got it from 3 yards long to 2 1/2 yards long and then the half yard left will be the pillow pocket with the pugs on it on both sides so it is reversible pocket...mostly minky to keep the toes warm
The back will be pieced minky browns and black with only the pillow pocket and the freemotion quilting or stitch in the ditch being the design in the minky
Don't tell me you don't have room or a table.... I am using my bed you see. Don't tell me you do not have a big quilting machine.... I am using my 23 year old Pfaff and curling in the metal rings as I sew..
Most fabrics are bought at GStreetFabrics and the minky is the extra soft Sherman minky
The pillow pocket picture will be created by appliquing the pugs from one fabric on to the motorcycle from another cotton fabric- all pre washed and I am planning on using some trapunto(slightly raised areas of the quilting to give a 3 dimensional affect) or just outline quilting the pugs in places like the coffee on the coffee quilt
