A few months ago, I finished my summer quilt to liven up our living room. Because I had so much fabric left over from the experience, I decided to go ahead and make a matching throw pillow.  The center is an 8.5″x8.5″ block, fussy-cut to let the big motif stand out.  The top and bottom borders are two 4.5″x8.5″ coordinating pieces.  Then, on the sides, I pieced together small remnants, again using 4.5″x8.5″ as my end-size before piecing everything together.  The back side of the pillow has a red-orange wavy center, rather than the fussy-cut giant motif.  I had run out of the big motif fabric, or at least run out of 8.5″x8.5″ portions that centered the circle motif, so I went with something different to coordinate, but still keep the same pieced pattern.  I used a 16″x16″ pillow form to stuff it with.

Now that it’s fall, I’m thinking I might need to make myself a fall-colored lap quilt and coordinating throw pillow…