Rediscovered Project

Years ago I went to visit my in-laws and my MIL took me to a quilt shop. I bought a few panels to make objects. One of them was a delightful pillow project. The original project had a ruffled edging.

Honestly the ruffled edging was the one thing that stopped me from ever making these pillows. The coordinating fabric to make the ruffles was not available and I could never find a color I wanted to use. I rediscovered the panels when I was cleaning up the sewing studio.

I threw out the original directions for the ruffled edge. We are not much of a ruffle family. At first I thought I would make an envelope closure. Upon further inspection that was not going to work unless I wanted the pillows to not have the sayings displayed.

Zipper insertion it was - once I got going on the project it took less than an hour.

I forgot the decorator tip and bought the actual size of pillow form needed. I read if you want fluffed professional looking pillows buy the next size up than you need.

The only thing I would change is to buy bigger pillow forms to really stuff the cases. Now we have two new cute pillows on our couch. One small project piece out of the sewing room and into use. I always include some sort of folded, buttoned or zipped closure on pillow forms. This makes for ease of cleaning. Besides who wants to hand sew a pillow case closed - not me.