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Quillow Question

My DGD told me yesterday that she wants a Quillow for Christmas. I've never made one but to maintain my status as the Best Grandma in the World, I will make it happen.

My question is this: All the tutorials I have seen show solid fabrics sewn right sides together and turned inside out(adding the pocket, of course). Can it be made with quilt blocks and patters or does it need to be a solid piece of fabric. And, do you have to sew them right sides together and turn it or can you make it like a quilt with a border?

My GDG is 16. The patterns I have seen use a 42x36 piece of fabric. Is there any reason I can't make it bigger, assuming I make the pillow pocket bigger, too?

Lastly, do you have a easy pattern I can follow?

Thanks for your help.

I have seen several that were pieced including a pieced pocket. I have also see several sizes. You should be fine doing whatever you want as long as you make the pocket ample enough.

I made 5 for my nephews when they were younger.
The first ones I made with a picture on the pillow and just used same colour fabrics inside and with these I sewed the cushion on all 3 sides to the quilt.
I then saw a quillow made all in fleece with the cushion having 6 small 21/2 by 3 inch like tabs. One end in the cushion seam the other end stitched onto the quilt. Younger nephew said it was easier for him at 3 to put quilt inside.
I have also used panels for the cushion.

Size of quilt was usually single bed size as they took them with them to camp. . Parents scout leaders so the boys went all the time from months old. The cushion was one third of the width and length usually 1/4 but you need plenty of room inside.

Here is a picture of a quillow from an old magazine. I have made these for new babies to teenagers. It appeals to all.but remove from toddlers who chew.

Look at top left corner and you can see where it opens into a quilt.triangles are fastened with a button and hair things.

years ago we made dozens of these---they were twin sized- made great 'travel quilts' you can make them any size you want. if you want to use pieced blocks by all means do so- I've never considered making them with a binding instead of putting them together right sides together- not sure how that would work-but would be a lot more work than the 'normal way' ...since they are fairly easy- fast projects i'm not sure why you would want to complicate them& make them so much more work- but you can do them any way you want- your project-

My very first quilt was a quillow - made from some general directions I found on the web and a bunch of trial and error. It never occurred to me *not* to make the pillow pieced - although it did take me a bit of time to figure out that I needed to attach the pocket with the piecing inside, so it would show when folded. I bound the pillow like a normal quilt - never occurred to me to do it differently, in fact. Then attached it to the quilt, and enclosed it in the binding of the quilt too (across the bottom) - so I just bound 3 sides of the pillow initially and the quilt bound the last.

I had to resize my pocket (the green border was added) - I made the quilt entirely out of corduroy which is thick, and sticky, and it just didn't fold very small. Quite an adventure for a first quilt, but I still have it and I managed to come out of the process loving quilting :)
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This tutorial shows a pieced top, and if you chose you could just do it with a binding instead of the birthing method. http://acuppaandacatchup.com/2011/05/quillow-tutorial/

Someone posted a link to a Quillow made from a purchased fleece blanket this week. Fast, easy and toasty. It is under Quillow made from Walmart throw?

I make mine like a quilt out of double fleece and cotton batting. Before I bind it I fold it up and measure how big the pocket should be.

Make the pocket sew it on then machine bind it. I would not even think of birthing one.

Thanks for all your comments. I plan to make it Tuesday. Tomorrow I'll decide for sure what I will do.

I've seen them with fleece and also cotton. I'm making close to 20 this yr. Most are NFL ones; for the women in the family that run 5'5" or below or close to it, I bought 2 yrds of fabric. NFL for the front and the cheaper matching solid fleece on the back. My boys are all close or over 6ft so I'm got 3 yrs each for them. I google the measurments and how to figure what size to make blocks depending on size of quillow. My one grandson it getting camo because he likes that and my other grandson just likes football so no favorite team like the rest do so I'm buying cotton fabric for alot of different teams and making 8 or 12 in blocks and then the back will still be fleece. On the pockets of the NFL ones will be an applique of a football and the person's name. Not sure what's going on the others besides their names. For the little girls in my life, just some bright girly fleece all with designs on them. For a close friend (my ex's wife) I have some fleece that has angels and such on it; she'll totally love it.

I will make the smaller kids sizes shorter but where it'll last a while but I wanted the older ones to actually be able to snuggle under it so that's why I'm doing it those sizes and they'll be the width of fabric. Of course I got extra plain fleece to do the pockets with. There is also a poem I found on the web about the pocket a good place to put your feet; that I'm going to embroidery as either a label or a name tag for them. The little ones gets ornaments/name tags that have prince or pricesses on them.

I don't have a pattern; I just decided the length and width is the width of the fleece; no since in wasting any or worrying about cutting crooked. I will top stitch after turning the fabric inside out to secure the edges and make sure between snuggling and washing it'll stay together. I think the pockets are 1/3 the width of fabric adding a few inches for seam and 1/4 the height of fabric plus a few inches.