Carson's Quillow

I finally remembered to take some pictures of Carson's quillow while Roger was here to hold it up for me. 

He's actually holding it upside down, but at least he was holding it, right? We took these pictures before the kids' naps and so I had it all folded back up into the pillow when I threw it back onto Carson's bed. He started getting upset when Rog took him in for his nap because he couldn't find his green blanket! I didn't take a picture of it, but the blanket is backed in green chenille. I am convinced that stuff is the devil as I cannot get rid of the green fuzzballs no matter what I do.

I am really bad at folding it up all nicely and shoving it into the pocket to make the pillow, so forgive the wonkiness in the picture. I went with random somewhat cross-hatched lines for the quilting. 

I had fun doing this style of quilting so I can definitely see using it again in the future.

Wyatt has been very insistent on what style of blanket he wants now that his birthday is coming up next . He has been consistently telling me red for the last week, so I thought we were settled on that, but then he started telling me very specifically that he wanted it to look like his pillowcase that is white with multicolored pinstripes. I'm not so excited about that. I asked if he would be disappointed if the blanket I made didn't look exactly like what was in his head. Unfortunately he said yes....

ETA...I've linked to it before, but I forgot to mention in this post that I used Nova's tutorial for the quilllow. The only thing I did differently was forget to add the carrying handle....

Linking up to the first {Sew} Modern Monday of the new year! Thanks, Megan!
and
Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story. Thanks, Heather and Megan!