using the GO! for a Christmas gift

Hubby had been saying that he wanted a big pillow for the couch downstairs, it’s brown and we have sort of light blue/grey walls.

So I figured I’d make him one for Christmas using the GO! cutter and the LeMoyne star die.

I found some solid brown and two different blues and cut out a bunch to have enough for a 20” pillow (the LeMoyne block is 9” so that would leave a 1” border around 4 blocks)

Here’s part of the blocks sewn together, now one of the blue fabrics was a batik stripe and some how the diamond shape on some of them ended up at an angle, I couldn’t figure out why!

Then I realized it! I made all the block sections face the same way, so all LEFTIES!! sigh… what to do now??

I played around with different ideas

Then came up with this for the blue floral fabric block sections

Then I had to decide on which way to make the block

I couldn’t decide so I made 2 of each

Then for the other side of the pillow, I just added a brown triangle to match

This is the result!!

I like it now! not what I had planned, but I took an OOPS and turned it into something I still like