Bug Pillows. Without the Bugs.

Okay, there are a few bugs.Remember this fabric? I needed to make some pillows out of it for Miss E.'s preschool. Well, it's in there. On one of them, anyway. Someplace.Pillow No. 1: I pulled a bunch of fabric in colors that coordinated with the bugs. And what do you know, I love the color combination—and I'm not sure I would have come up with it without that hideous bug print for inspiration.I actually would have liked to make this pillow out of hexagons—it goes with the bug theme after all. But I didn't want to take the time to handpiece them. I want to try hexagon paper-piecing sometime soon, but this was not the project for that. I just wanted to bang this one out.Pillow No. 2: Instead of using the bugs again, I couldn't resist those Oddysea charms (which were still sitting out after I changed my mind about using them for the That Girl Quilt Along). The school is on Lake Michigan, so the fish theme was appropriate.I quilted it in random wavy lines, inspired by that blue print in the upper left, and I was really happy with this quilting. My biggest problem with free-motion is that my stitch length is horribly inconsistent. But I was able to do these wavy lines with my walking foot, thus eliminating that problem. I think I'll have to do a whole quilt like this one of these days.