Craftsy Classes: BOM

I began taking the FREE craftsy BOM class at the beginning of 2012 and am only NOW getting to the actual quilting part.  The reasoning  for this quilt was to use up all my little barkcloth scraps that I've kept from work over the past few years.  It looks like I've used up most of them, so at this point I'm looking at a nearly successful quilt... The sewing/sashing was easy... I had no trouble gettiing it all put together, the stitching dooesn't show so it looks really nice right now.   But I'm beginning to do some free motion quilting on it and am struggling to make it look good.  My curves and loops have been looking more like zigzags and I'm ready to give up.  I've spent so much time ripping out stitches... :(  My quilt will consist of mostly echo quilting and stitch in the ditch. Here's a peek at my quilt at this point... 

You can see some of the attempts at FMQing, the ones that I felt were acceptable enough not to tear out.
I'll keep working on finishing this quilt between work projects, But I sooooo want to master FMQ though...

Blue and White Pillow collection

Blue and White!  My favorite!  I made this batch of pillows for a friend's TV room.  Her theme was Japanese and her main focus was comfort.  Thus, the big cooshie pillows...

She had requested 4 large 20x20 pillows, a sobakawa back pillow, 2-18x18 pillow, a dogbone pillow, and a pillow that looks like a couch pillow, recovered.   My favorite thing about this project was that she gave me her old pillows and some fabric and just said... "Do whatever you want.  Just recover these."   So I added a few decorative elements to some of the pillows.