Pillow Talk, Set 2

Sometimes I will just be puttering about the house, minding my own beeswax, then all of a sudden get struck by a creative idea where anything I am doing at the moment must stop so that I can make whatever it is that instant.

When the idea is a simple one of making pillows using up scraps on hand, things go together pretty quickly ie. no shopping involved! I completely forgot to take "before" photos, but here are a couple of "afters."



This pillow was made using some old jeans I bought for a few dollars many years ago at a consignment store. The jeans were crazy looking, but I thought they would come in handy to use for something. The fronts of each leg were pieced with vertical strips of fancy fabric, alternately with denim. If you have ever cut up jeans before, intending to use them as big flat pieces of material, you will agree that it does not work that well unless you use smaller pieces, which is what I did. I used a small portion of the front of each leg, pieced them together to make the front of the pillow, and then used some cotton from my stash for the back. Voila! The pillow form is a very old bed pillow. The stuffing had decreased somewhat, so I just pushed it down to one end and sewed a new seam so the resulting pillow size is about 18 x 20 inches. I like my upcycled pillow!



I ran out of jeans to cut up for a second pillow, so I turned to my collection of embroidered and cross stitch table linens, picked up over the years from thrift stores and garage sales. The top half of this pillow was cut from a little runner that was stained in one section. I used the good part, incorporated some of the original lace edging, and combined it with a garden/bird print for a splash of more colour. I thought the bare spot under the arc of the embroidery could do with some text, so I penned in the word, "Bliss," because that's the feeling I have when I create something beautiful (yes, then truly that feeling would be "blissful," but the noun works better in this case, thank you). Love x 3!