echo...stella...love!

aaaand... i'm back.  sorry about the hiatus!  i am happy to say that after almost two weeks of being lost i found my camera...  hiding in the bottom of one of my rarely used bags!   reunited and it feels so good! although, i am secretly planning on securing a camera mistress once we get our tax refund... ;)

so, a while back jacey and i decided to swap... really it was supposed to be christmas presents...  

this is what she sent me, on time... seriously, awesome!  

 isn't this the coolest pillow?   i love echo.  i want to bathe in it.

 and her quilting is amazing!  the straight lines and the x's intersecting the circles!  

 perfection!  i truly love it!  

i really do love it so.  thank you so much over and over jacey!  you are such a great friend!  this pillow makes me so happy; everyone in our house uses it but me most of all!

and this is what i made for her, sent just a liiiiiiiittttle late...  a sweet little plus pillow.  (thank you jacey for taking the pictures and sharing with me.)  i finished the pillow and sent it off to her and my camera was still missing!  doesn't it look sooo awesome against her blue wall!  i love all the pictures jacey takes.  

Nicke's outdone herself, a photo by missyecaj on Flickr.

i used dear stella and a variety of other various prints; bliss, amy butler, and that ds yellow i love so much!  but seriously, i have an intense love affair with dear stella.  

i need more, i need it all, i need it now.  

i hand stitched around all of the full pluses and then around the border.  i was worried it wasn't enough but i think it adds just what it needed.  oh, and i added an invisible zipper... see above... and it went swimmingly, i am the queen of the invisible zip now-a-days.

so, a very happy swap.

  i truly look forward to more!  ;)