X Factor Swap - Round 6

This morning I came home from the dog walk to discover a parcel from Saskatoon in my mailbox. Saskatoon is about 4 hours from where we used to live in Canada and as Canada is a VERY big country, that makes the sender our former near-neighbour, exciting enough for a Tuesday morning frankly.

But more excitement awaited, inside was my pillow cover from the X-Factor pillow swap. If you aren't familiar with how the swap works, everyone contributes a cushion and then after secret voting you are assigned a pillow according to how highly your own contribution was rated by other swappers.

I let my parcel sit on the kitchen table for a good 10 minutes. I love this part of the swap, where like Schrodinger's cat, several possibilities simultaneously exist before you open the package...

I made some tea, unloaded the washing machine and waited for a quiet moment before I opened it and I was astonished at what came out of the envelope! There were 3 or 4 pillows in the swap which I absolutely loved and I never expected to receive any of them, but I was wrong!

This pillow was made by the very talented Lisa and I LOVE it. How cute is the fabric and that fussy cut Dalmation dog and the quilting is perfect. I photographed it in Theo's room because our sofa is looking rather tatty, but it's not staying there - something might happen to it n the night!

 

Lisa's pillow is so lovely I'm actually a bit embarrassed to show you the one I contributed, but here you go...

 

The next round is low volume and I think I have a fairly good idea of which design I'll be making. I'm hoping I might be able to pick up an appropriate fabric bundle at the Festival Of Quilts later this week. Anyone else going?