camwyn | I finished the quilted pillow a few days ago.

A square pillow. The front is many, many right triangles of varying sizes and patterns. All the triangles are either some shade of blue or black, with astronomical patterns or antique navigational instruments printed on them. The cover is also stitched with a grid of light blue thread.

A close-up of the previous pillow. The grid is somewhat irregular in places.

The side seam of the pillow, seen from above. Only the front of the pillow has the triangle pattern and quilting on it. The back is a solid blue-gray fabric.

Another side of the pillow, but this one has a light blue zipper sewn into it. Because it's okay to be proud of successfully installing fourteen inch zippers.

One last shot of the pillow, as seen from directly above.

First time doing a proper quilting project; my only quilt-type experience before this has been making an oven mitt, which involved the use of a single solid piece of fabric over batting and stitching the layers together in a basic grid pattern. I used a quilt block pattern called Aircraft, from this site. I have since learned that apparently this paper-piecing technique is considered difficult or advanced or something along those lines, but to be honest I just wanted something where I didn't have to sew curves, and seeing a pattern where I could just put THIS edge on this line HERE and put the needle on this OTHER line over HERE and sew in a straight line for twenty-seven pieces... well, that seemed kind of ideal. I am now thinking this is a bit like when I started beading and went from 'did a few basic seed beading projects' to 'this necklace creates spirals and a neckband using pretty much just peyote stitch', and got told that I had more or less gone for one of the most complicated things I could do with just peyote stitch.

I had originally thought I wasn't going to do quilting again, because it's an AGHGHGHGHGHGHG experience to do the same thing twenty-seven times in a row, then go back and do ANOTHER thing twenty-seven times after ironing the first thing twenty-seven times, but I was poking through that quilt block library and there's a block called Storm at Sea which produces an optical illusion of curves with nothing but triangles and straight-edged quadrilaterals....