Sherry’s Main Street Celebration bench pillow

May 29

Hello!!
Now that it’s memorial weekend in America, summer is here…at least it is here. I’m actually headed out to weed in the garden. Our plants are already starting to grow.

With summer comes lots of long warm days, and here cool nights. I love it!! Also, fireworks are often part of those celebrations which is why this bench pillow that Sherry made is soooo fun!!

The name is Main Street Celebration and the pattern is by Kimberbell. Kim’s sister Kris sells kits for this and all of her designs. The patterns are for either machine embroidered appliqué or regular appliqué. This link will take you to all the things My Girlfriends Quilt Shoppe carries. As with all of Kim’s designs, embellishments are added after its quilted.

I kept the quilting simple. I used Patricia Ritter’s Rock n Roll Starz for the top and bottom border. It’s available at Urban Elementz. https://www.urbanelementz.com/rock-n-roll-starz-petite.html

I used navy thread and quilted a up and down freehand line, and then 1/4” pinstripe lines in the inner border using a Edge ruler from Linda at The Quilted Pineapple. I didn’t quilt anything in the appliqué because some of its already quilted, and it’s also a little thick because of the embroidery.

I used a scrap of my favorite 8020 cotton poly blend batting from Winline. I also highly recommend to my clients when it comes to pillows, use a cheap muslin for the backing. No need to use a nice fabric.