Making Double Dutch Pillow Kits

 Hello quilting friends!  This week I have been working on a new project :)  I am so very honored to be the keynote speaker at a Conference for Teachers next month.  Along with speaking, I will be demoing and teaching the attendees to make a Double Dutch Pillow.  I have been having so much fun going through my stash, and making up some Pillow Kits!!   Each kit needs 2 Fat Eighth prints for the piecing, one for binding, a background fabric, and a pillow backing fabric.  I am making 75 kits so it's so much fabric fun!!   I really have been trying to get a wide variety of prints so that students (which is funny because they are all teachers!) can find something they really like!    

Once I have fabrics all grouped, its on to pressing and cutting.  I have been cutting about 12 kits at a time as I can stack up fabric in about 6 layers for cutting to speed up the process.   I cut the binding, prints, then background and backing, all in good ol assembly line fashion.  

Then it's up to the dining room table to sort everything out.   It is totally faster to cut these in large groups, but it means I have to sort everything back into the original fabric groupings after it's been cut.  But it's been a nice quiet part of the day and I just love seeing all of the fabrics come back together all cut and pretty in the fabric groups I choose. 

And then, all that is left is to add a batting square and a pattern and bag it up.  I tried to lay everything out so each student could see all of the prints that will be in their kit at once.  I really like the way it all came together.   And double bonus, I am using up a lot of batting scraps that were just hanging around waiting to be sewn into frankin-bat :)  

I have about half of the kits all made.  So about 40 more to go :)   Looks like this will be my project next week as well!!   How about you . . . what project are you working on??