Amy Currioman

I’ve spent most of the last two days sewing a quillow. Do you know what a quillow is? It is a quilt with a pocket sewn in so that the entire quilt can be folded into the pocket. Once that is folded in, the quillow now looks like, and can be used as, a pillow. So it is a quilt/pillow, therefore called a quillow. I’ve made several quillows in my life. I’ve sold some, and I’ve given some as presents.

This one I just made is being sold to one of my husband’s friends. He is planning to give it to his wife as a Christmas gift! I made a matching pillow case for it, so he can get a pillow form from the local fabric store to put inside it, or they can insert a throw pillow that they already own inside it.

Anyway, here is a picture of my lastest quillow! I hand-tied this one instead of machine quilting it. I thought that the pattern of the fabric lended itself to hand-tying. When I make a quillow, I let the fabric “tell me” what type of quilting would be the best suited. I hope the wife enjoys it!

I can remember as a child I didn’t pay much attention to the shoes that I wore. I was perfectly happy in sneakers or sandals most of the time. Those types of shoes are easy to wear, the shoes seem to be quite forgiving as to adapting to the size of the wearer’s foot. It wasn’t until I became a young adult and was forced to wear “real shoes” that I realized that finding comfortable shoes was going to be a lifelong search.

Apparently I have been cursed with extra wide, short feet, with high arches. The most comfortable shoes I am able to find in stores are usually men’s sneakers! That’s all well and good if I’m dressing casually, but wearing men’s shoes and trying to pass them off as dress shoes just takes a lot more finesse than I really have! I can remember searching for months for a pair of wedding shoes that actually looked and felt good. For a while I thought I might have to elope because I just couldn’t find shoes that fit!

To this day, I dread shoe shopping. But I will say that I have discovered that Reebok shoes tend to fit me better than most other brands of running shoes, so I try to find places that sell Reebok shoes.