When the Leader & Enders get more interesting...

I'm still working on the friendship braid quilt and since there is so much stopping/starting and ironing involved, I thought I would sew up some leftover HSTs I had from the quilt I did for moda.    It ended up (with some scrounging through scrap bins for borders) being a nice sized pillow.  All that orderliness is a nice place to rest your eyes in a chaotic house full of kids home for summer.

I am really lazy about making pillows so I did an envelope  backing from some railroad ticking.  I bought a few yards for $1 in my hometown...but the rub was that they were cut into 10" or so strips.  That worked fine for this project.

I did a faux binding with the thin brown strip.  I did pebbles in the tan area, stitched in the ditch around the red, and did a weird little stacking motif in the triangle area.

And somewhere along the way, I did manage to get this beast sewn up.  It's about 65x85 I think.  I had considered trying to make it king sized but I just didn't have enough fabric variety in my remaining pieces.  Rather than ruining what I had done I just decided to stop at a nice couch size.

I started sewing the extra chisels together for binding.  For the backing, I am using some old curtains I made using Fig Tree's Whimsy line.  It's not perfect but it's already paid for (and at only $2 a yard)!

I have to learn how to do extra wide mitered bindings.  It is something I always wanted to do and since the chisels are 3.5" wide now would be the perfect time to learn.  Any tips???