Homemade Living Room Pillows

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I was so excited to receive my fabric last week from Fabric.com!

I got started right away with this fabric…..

I used the fabric to make pillow covers for my down inserts for my living room sofa.

Remember these blue beauties I bought from Plush Studios:0)

I took those and added my homemade pillows to the mix!

I love how it turned out!

Complete with hidden zippers!

They were so fun to make and easy too!

I also used the black and white hounds tooth for some dining chair pillows!  The scale of the the fabric was not what I expected BUT I still like it! Still on the hunt for the LARGE scale hounds tooth

I can’t wait to see what drapes do to this space! I still don’t know if I should go solid or patterned. What do you think?

 

The gray taupe color, blended to much with the living room sofa, but will be a GREAT contrast against these chairs in the family room with some zebra too!

Do you make your own pillows? What’s your favorite fabric right now?

Sew Easy...

Pin It So I just finished a little sewing project:0) Thanks to the VERY talented Heather Bailey and a Arizonan:0)! I downloaded a very simple pattern for a square pin cushion! I really needed one because all my little pins were ending up all around the room:0) The hubby was a little concerned! I used some left over fabric scraps and made this little cutie in about an hour! (over a couple of days of course) SEW simple and SEW easy.

Wouldn't they make the cutest little hostess gifts for some of your girlfriends? I am so bad at gift giving...but I promised myself I would get better. I just hate being invited over to a friends house or family and being empty handed!! lol... Because most of the time I know they spent a little while cleaning...maybe even cooking for ME:0) I would just like to have a LITTLE something for them:0) Heather has the instructions on her sight. I am so in love with her fabrics...definitely going to order some so I can make some pillows for the office and some dresses for Livy:0) I got my eye on her new collection NICEY JANE....love at first sight I tell ya! The best thing is that since she's resides in beautiful Arizona I can go and acutally see them! Can't wait...anyone want to join me???



Anyway.....take a look at the process.

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After I finished stuffing it. I put it down to finish some errands. When I came back...I couldn't find it! I looked everywhere...on top of things...under things..in between things. EVERYWHERE!!! Oh well...I'm pretty sure one of the boys ate it...lol. I'm sure I will find it the next time I clean:0) But I did have one already completed at this stage(I was working on a couple) I think I like this one better anyway...lol! Brown Zebra fabric AGAIN!

Lets continue....

I am not what you would call a seamstress...but I do love to create things and make things with my hands! This project was easy peasy! Now go off and try it...or maybe you'll get one the next time you see me...MAYBE:0)

First Sewing Project!

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So I am always looking for a new project! I have been wanting to start sewing for awhile now. I asked Reggie to get me a sewing machine a few years ago, but I ended up trading it with my mom for a Kitchen Aid mixer! Well latley I been really wanting to try out the whole sewing world, so I thought I would make my own APRON!
I took some fabric I had stored up from my classroom and I used it to make my apron. I got the pattern from Joanns for like 2.00!

Now this was the first time I have even touched a sewing machine and it was actually pretty easy. My mom was seamstress for years so she helped with some of the vocabulary.

It only took me a few hours and I think I turned out pretty cute! I can't wait to use some other fabric and patterns! Yeah for aprons!