I am wondering if this Monday series should be called “Great Online Sewing Tutorials I have Found, Pinned, Finished, Photographed and Blogged About”. I suppose with a title like that anyone reading would likely move on before they even got to the content!
Here are more pillows I recently finished. (The other pillows are here and here.) The chevrons started as a one piece table runner with the lighter chevrons in the centre and the dark on the ends – I was aiming for an ombré-ish look. Then I realized that there is no way it would ever stay on the table – much less on the table AND also free from crayon marks and stickers! I happened to have 2 pillows I was going to cover anyhow, so I cut the table runner in half and sewed a quick 2 piece backing for them. (For those of you interested, it took me just over one Dora episode to cut/sew and hem the pillow backings. Such is the life of a sewing mom!)
They look a bit busy together on the couch, so I put one on the hallway bench for now. We’ll see what happens, things don’t seem to stay in one place too long. Especially with 2 kids using them as stepping stones over the hardwood “lake” they are being rescued from. It’s a good thing all of the pillow covers are washable!
I used this tutorial by Crazy Mom Quilts. It is super straightforward if you use one colour for every other chevron/zig zag stripe. Of course I had to be difficult and try to use a different colour for each stripe, which took some figuring and ended up being slower – of course! Either way I am happy with how it turned out. Maybe I will soon be aflicted by an addiction to making quilts? Hmmm… I am thinking about using this Pillow and Maxfield collection to make a picnic blanket. What do you think?
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