If you love scrappy sewing projects, I’ve got a great Halloween sewing project to share with you today. This scrappy black cat throw pillow over at Therm O Web makes use of your black and orange fabric scraps to make an adorable Halloween throw pillow.
As a pet owner of 4 black cats, I’m partial to any sewing project that features a black cat. What I love about this pillow, beside it being a black cat, is that the patchwork design doesn’t require any complicated cutting or piecing. The majority of the design is made with simple squares, with a few half square triangles thrown in to help create the cat shape.
If you don’t have the scraps in your remnant stash already, you can easily get enough squares from a handful of fat quarters. I’m always up for a reason to buy a few more fabrics for my stash, lol. Blenders and single color prints will work best for this project.
The other thing I love about this project is that, while it was obviously designed for Halloween, you can make this a pillow for all year just by switching out the colors. Of course iIn our home filled with black cats, we don’t limit ourselves to Halloween for the black cat décor. It’s black cats all year at our house!
But if you own cats other than black cats, you can easily make the cat on this pillow look like the cats living in your own home just by changing up the colors you use for the kitty shape. A white kitty, gray kitty, orange kitty, or even use multiple colors to make a tuxedo or calico cat.
The project is designed by Deb Zeleski for Therm O Web. Go to the Them O Web blog for the project tutorial and free pattern.
[photo credit: Therm O Web]
