Christmas Pillow

To fulfill an assignment for a project at school, my son decided to make a pillow. I cut out the fabric, he arranged the squares, he helped stitch them together, he designed and drew the pattern to stitch on top (a sort of spiral), he helped stitch the pattern, he stuffed the pillow, and he helped stitch the pillow closed. He got better at stitching as we went along. He likes it enough that he wants to keep it instead of giving it away as previously planned. I like that a school project motivated me to help him learn to sew by hand.