Monday, April 12, 2010

pillow love

You've probably seen the scrappy flower pillow from Anthropologie floating around the web, right? Anyways, if you haven't, mine looks exactly like it. har har. Well, it was a lot cheaper anyways. I hear the original pillow was like $88! YoWzAS!

I made this one for my sister Janae's birthday. She's quite a vivacious girl, loves her color, and the only request I'd been able to get out of her for her present was... "a pillow?"

So this is what she got!

I got the idea here, and used the idea to run with it until I got this. (I kind of love it) I REALLY REALLY tried to be random with my scraps...didn't try to keep them in a color range or anything, like I usually do.

It's a great project for using up scraps. I did a simple back, just an envelope style...used the trick shown here by Jill for great-fitting corners.

I was planning to sew down the petals...but I forgot/got lazy/am pregnant and will use that as an excuse for just about anything.

;)

10 comments:

Adventures in Dressmaking said...

Looks great!!
I've been thinking of doing that since I saw the crafterhours project. So cute!

Tam said...

Love it. This might be a good technique to spruce up the plain pillow covers on our couch pillows :)

Dixie said...

I love it! The randomness of the fabric makes it fun.

Katie said...

It's so great! I love all that color!

Kat said...

That's gorgeous. Great work!

Watson Ink. said...

DId you just about die making it mix-matched?? haha! Looks like even without sewing the petals down that was a lot of work! Go preggo sewer!!

Nikki said...

I LOVE it!! Gotta try that one!!

L Johnson said...

Very today!

Lila Jo said...

Lucky sister! I love the colors!

crafterhours said...

ooh, I love this! I like it WAY better than mine! The symmetry is very appealing to me. Great job!
-Adrianna

 
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