I just wanted to show the little project that I did today. Since it is FREEZING outside and roads are bad, I needed to entertain myself here, inside. Luckily, Zach has been playing with Kole, so that left me free to be creative. Here is how I spent my afternoon.
I made a pillow! Now, I know what you are saying. Pillows are easy! And I would say, yup they are.
But this was a fun project to fill a few hours on a lazy day when there was nothing else to do but clean. And who wants to clean on a snow day?!? Not me.
The cool flower is on both side of the pillow so there is no front and back. I cut random sized strips from the extra fabric that I had from the aprons. I sewed them together, the cut off the extra length from a few long strips. I cut out my petals, cut out the fusible interfacing, and ironed it all on and together. THEN, I topstitched along the edges of the petals to make sure they would never come off. That was time consuming but I think well worth it.
So, then I just folded the fabric in half, stitched along the edges (and the bottom), and flipped it, stuffed it, and slipstitched the opening.
I love it! And I get a little reminder of all those aprons. I just used the fabric that kinda matched, so I am going to do some more with the rest of the fabric I think.
So now, I have a new funky pillow for the house! I am totally making more=).
Now, I need to get some more stuffing from walmart, but we are snowed in!!
Oh well, another day. It is time for dinner anyways.
P.S. We are the P.J. family today! I just noticed that we all still have on our pj's and it is 5:15 pm. I LOVE snow days!!!!!!
6 comments:
Cute pillow! As someone who doesn't sew, I'd never guess that was "easy." I love that it's a little piece of each of the gifts you gave, too.
How cute they are, you did a great job. Got to love scraps!!! I went to my first knitting class lastnight I have been working on my first project, A Hat!!! Amanda is going to have a blast knitting too!!!
Girl, you are so creative! The pillow turned out great!
you should TOTALLY think about selling this stuff on etsy! it could go for a pretty penny!
Very cute pillow!
That is absolutely adorable, and I'm with Elizabeth--I would NEVER guess that was easy.
What a sweet reminder of all of your aprons.
So cute! You could definitely sell stuff like that on Etsy! Sounds like you had a great day. :)
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