Another one down

I finished my pillows!

Here's a shameless show-off.  :)


I REEEEAAAAAAAAAAAALLY want to paint that ugly wood paneling...have wanted to for the last five years.  and I am on the fence about painting the piano...dead serious.  

{1} simple square, used existing pillow 'forms' that had no life and added a little more batting.  (Most simple and Easy)  *The most awesome thing, is that Tanner was mad at me because he had some privileges taken away this morning (like swimming and preschool) so he took my kitchen scissors to the big patterned pillow.  It needs a re-vamp now...any suggestions???  It's barely 5 days old.  grrrr!  Just has 1/2 inch snipped out of each corner.  I've banned him to outer Magnolia for the rest of the day.  Seriously. 


{2} Pleated the material, then sewed in a simple square stuffed full to the gills...had the layers somewhat stitched down, but the kids ripped them out, on day two.  Go figure.  "Hey, mom!  What's this thread for? *pulllllllllllllllllll*" (Most time consuming...measure, press, sew, press, repeat for an hour, but still easy)

{3} Messy pleat/gather going down on the left, up on the right for a shabby look; stitched down, stuffed full as well. I obviously ran out of fabric on this one...but don't tell anyone. This one will be a good whacking pillow.  I call dibs on the ugly one!  (Most desperate...thrown together, simple, but ehhhh.)

{4} Another lifeless pillow form under a dressed up simple square with an awesome craft-store doily.  Stitched down, just in case this one gets used in a brawl, too. (Still simple, fast, baste doily with glue then stitch down, then same simple and easy square.)

This next one is Ryan's pillow.  It is a store-bought pillow form, that I had a stitchery on...and it was more for decorative purposes in it's pre-life stage...but when I stuffed the original couch pillows to add some life into them (making them more firm, and less flexible to fold in half) he adopted this pillow to lay his weary head on.  It just happened to be the pillow that was near me when I discovered I had a whole yard of the solid blue, and still didn't have any rosettes...so it got a makeover.  Much to my hubby's demise.   

{5} Simple square form, but I sewed nine rosettes with knots in the middle to the front piece BEFORE stitching the back on.  It's my new favorite.  There better not be any puking on this pillow...I am SO not washing it.  (By far the most complicated mess you ever would see.  No rhyme or reason, other than each 2" x 56" strip had to be twisted/gathered/twirled within its allotted space on the 'grid'.  That chalked on grid was brilliant, until it disappeared after sewing the first and center rosette on.  Still fun, and easy though.)

**All of these pillows are stitched completely closed.  Besides the fact that I'm a cheap-skate and didn't want to buy zippers, I didn't want to even put them in.  I'm tired.  The room needed a face-lift with as little time and effort as possible. Worst case scenario (puke, poop, or poppage from fights or fort building), I'll just rip out the whip-stitch, wash, and whip-stitch the thing back closed.  It was that easy.  

***I only spent $4 on 2 yards of solid at Home Fabrics, and $7 on one yard of the print at JoAnns.  I used three existing pillows, in addition to two full bags of fiberfill (I've been stashing them away for something fun like this!  Now the mountain of fiberfill and fabric is GONE from my bedroom!  finally.)

One more down, and a mile-long-list-full to go.  

Next:  Tablerunner for the piano and possibly a new one for under the tv, on my hopechest.  Don't worry though...they've been in the works for 4 or so years...folded and put away...for one of these days.  Goodness, I have a lot of unfinished crafts!    

What's next on your craft docket?