A Scrappy Wedding Quilt just isn't complete without a set of Scrappy Mr. & Mrs. Pillow Shams!

For me, it's all about the embellishments/personalization!!!

I gifted this scrappy quilt to my son and future daughter-in-law as a house warming gift and just couldn't stop there without sewing these scrappy shams as well!!! They make for a quick and easy sew and can be gifted for lots of different occasions.   I'm not going to go into a lot of sewing and quilting details because you can find lots of free patterns on the internet that you can use to  sew/quilt shams, but I did want to talk about a few sewing and quilting points! Since I'm a quilter now, I decided to quilt the front of the shams to practice my ruler quilting.  My daughter (Amber) loves to free motion quilt (FMQ) and she's great at it, but for me, I like to use rulers!!!  As she has stated before, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I love my heart ruler where all my hearts turn out perfect!!!  I can overlap/angle them all different directions so I guess I'm not a true over the top perfectionist! I went to a class using the Westalee Rulers and absolutely love them.  I have all sorts of them (circles, feathers, hearts, beginner pack, etc.) and use them all the time.  You have to have a special sewing foot either high or low shank.  For me, its in-the-ditch or ruler quilting and maybe a little stippling from time to time!!!

I also like to applique and thought how fun would it be to applique the Mr. and Mrs. using my sewn together scraps.  It was a little bit of a challenge with all the different seams!!!  To help, I used Wonder Under which worked great to secure the applique to the sham so I could sew the satin stitch around them.  I have a fancy embroidery machine, but haven't taken an applique class on how to auto machine applique so I do it the old fashioned way and cut my pieces out, use Wonder Under to secure them and then satin stitch or blanket stitch around the piece to finish it.  It works for me and I've always been told if something isn't broken - no need to fix it!!!