Pillow talk......and beachy divas giveaway winner!

A good blogging friend, Gene Black, was kind enough to send me the link to a very good pillowcase tutorial. Click HERE to see it. It runs a bit long but it is very detailed and the technique is very good...it's called a "sausage" method. Yesterday I tried it out. I practiced by using penguin fabric given to me in a swap by Sabrina (a gal I know from a Yahoo wool group I'm on). It would have been better if I'd had more yardage and could have made the penguins going across the pillow differently, but I love it this way, too...ANYTHING penguin is good for me!!! This will be MY pillowcase and I am very happy with it. (Thanks, Sabrina, for the fabric!!!) All the seams are finished and I'd say it took me less than an hour from start to finish. (The photos should enlarge if you click on them.) Now that I know I have mastered the technique, I see many more pillowcases being made in the "sausage" method!This shows the way it might have been better to have the penguins "walking" but I'd have needed about 1 1/3 yards for that....and I had a yard. This next BLURRY photo (YIKES.....not sure how I managed that) shows the completed throw pillow cover I'd started awhile back. Believe me, it looks a LOT better than it shows up in this blurry photo!!! Do NOT click on this one to enlarge it or you might get dizzy...whew...and I am NOT kidding!!! I figured since I was on the subject of pillows here, I'd show this one completed....and didn't realize the photo was blurry until I put it here.....UGH.....so sorry about that! This is probably the worst photo I've ever taken....and I don't have time to redo it now. And...below the blurry photo, the name of the winner of the Beachy Divas fabric panel.By dawn's early light, the random number generator picked (as the winner of the Beachy Divas fabric shown here a few days back).........Happy Cottage Quilter. I hope she enjoys her win and will send me a photo of what she makes with it!