Saturday, May 21, 2011

Pillows for Anna

Slowly but surely, Anna's nursery is coming to life! I'm about 99% done at this point but wanted to document some of the projects I have been working on lately. As soon as I got back from Midland, I couldn't put my sewing machine away and poor Keith had to listen to it for hours on end for many nights in a row. I wanted to make a couple cute pillows for the nursery and I had a bunch of leftover fabric from the bedding that I could put to good use. I found a really fun pillow pattern online and while it required a lot of sewing, I think it turned out really cute. I had to cut 24 strips of fabric, ruffle each one of them using a basting stitch and then stitch each strip onto the purple fabric. I always seem to find the most complex patterns...


Isn't it so cute?!

The finished product along with another pillow I made earlier. I even stitched the purple cording on the green pillow. I think my mom and grandmother are impressed! Thank you again for teaching me how to sew...now I just need to learn how to sew a zipper so I don't have to hand stitch the pillow after it is stuffed.
I tried my hand at making fabric flowers for this little pillow. It was super easy and I just attached them to the inside of the pillow with safety pins. This one sits in Anna's crib - more pictures of the almost finished nursery to follow!

2 comments:

Denton Family said...

Anna's room is beautiful. Can't wait for her to get here.

Camille, Blake, Pierce and baby Asher said...

So cute... well done little mama... you are definetly nesting...