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After oooohing and aaaaaahing over some of the quilting blogs I've seen, I finally made my first quilted thing ever! It's not fancy at all --the fabric was pinked and sewn on in layers (instead of pieced and sewn), and it's tied with red embroidery floss instead of quilted-- but I love it. The top is a bunch of thrifted vintage fabrics (70's polyester, anyone?), and it's backed and lined with recycled fabric (an old fitted sheet) that (almost) matches the yellow plaid perfectly. Instead of batting, I used double layers of recycled jersey knit (old tees); this has to be the heaviest pillowcase ever!




_{Here you can get a better idea of the pinking & stitching.
Over time the edges will fray, to further accentuate its 70's goodness.}

And even though this picture was taken latelatelate at night (you can see the time on my ghetto clock) and the lighting is horrible and it's a little blurry, it's very important to me already because it has both of my favorite boys in it. The one on the right isn't a kitten (he's almost two!), he's just tiny; the one on the left is my old man (nineteen this year!) whom I've had since I was six. I ♥♥♥ them both.