Polly Grace {in pillow form!}

If you follow me on Instagram, you've already seen these, but it's too cute not to share on the blog as well :)  When I first received my copy of Love Patchwork & Quilting's issue 37, I saw this awesome boxer dog mini quilt designed by Juliet (The Tartankiwi) and just had to make one, pronto!

I made some tweaks to Juliet's pattern so that it would match our sweet boxer girl, Polly.  I LOVE the background fabric against the brown. It makes a great contrast.  The background fabric is the newspaper print by Carrie Bloomston.

For the quilting, I kept it simple and only quilted the background fabric with straight lines every 1/2".

Once it was quilted, I decided to do a simple envelope back on the pillow.  And as you can see below, I even cheated a bit and just used the selvage edge for the inside flap of the envelope :)  Works for me (and the dog!).

And here's the finished pillow next to Polly.  Perfect match.  (Note...not easy to get this girl to pose with a pillow!)

The quilt pattern finishes at 20" square, which thankfully is a standard pillow form size.

And now this pillow is being well loved and used by Polly and the rest of the family.

Isn't she the cutest?!?

Amanda