Stitching Cuteness

One of the things I enjoy doing in my free time is stitching. I go to an Enrichment group twice a month, though it's mostly just two of us, sometimes three, who show up. Which is fine because we've become very good friends and sometimes we even just visit instead of stitch--oops, don't tell! Anyhow, I designed and made this pillow for my niece Holly, she just turned 11 on Dec 7th. I made it to match her room colors and bedspread. So I gave it to her for an early birthday present when I saw her at Thanksgiving and she loved it and hooray!--it matches really well and looks so cute in her room!! Thanks to my friends who #1 gave me encouragement and #2 helped me figure out how to sew it together. Sewing (like on a machine) isn't something I've ever done much of or well at when I tried and the machine I have was my grandmother's, so it is well built (meaning heavy) and I can't get it to do a zig-zag or anything but a straight stitch anymore.. (hint hint Santa). So the actual machine sewing of this pillow is what took the most amount of time in the whole process (that piping was hard to do! But now that it's done I'm proud of my accomplishment and now have to get working on another one!!