Needlepoint on 13-mesh canvas, Planet Earth Fiber 100% silk yarn. Fairfield poly-fil pillow form, cotton fabric.

Technical challenges:  Spent weeks researching quilt blocks to see which ones could be transposed successfully to graph paper and canvas. Ended up with 18 blocks, each of which is used twice. Did not have nearly enough fabric marking pens to represent all the colors, so ended up taping tiny yarn swatches to a drawing of every block and then inking, knowing I would have to refer back to the swatches to use the right colors. Doing one block at a time meant that I could, and did, completely undo and restitch a few blocks that did not work out for various reasons (not crisp enough, too similar to something else nearby). Did sashing last. Finally, cut the fabric for the pillow cover too small and had to extend it with extra seams.