Scrap Buster Fall Pillow Tutorial

This is how the sky looked on January 1st 2010, what was meant to be the start of a new, fresh year. A time to look forward and leave that of the past behind. A time of new beginnings, of new hope and new aspirations. This is how the sky looked the night upon receiving news that changed our lives forever, a moment I went out to capture to have some reminder of this person in our lives and what they meant to us.

For this day, we were told that someone we loved, someone who fell suddenly and tragically to such a deadly disease had slipped away from us. A part of our family gone forever, but who suddenly sent such an important message to us all ~ that each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.

With that renewed faith in my mind, 2010 for me is a year to try all those things that I feel challenge me, in particular having a go at creating things I may not necessarily have tried .. Hence where this particular tutorial comes into focus.

It was by random chance that I came across the scrap buster fall pillow tutorial, while googling (which I'm quite known to do) for some new patterns and tutorials. It was so eye-catching and what a clever design to utilise all those scraps of fabric that we acquire from our other projects. Initially I had been looking into cushion covers with zips (I have a zip phobia I must confess but I'm slowly coming to terms with them), but this particular project has a simple envelope back. I have only done the front applique, but have the fabric now for the envelope back so will post back the finished product when its' done.

Tutorial can be found HERE