pillows

I made some pillows for our couch

and here they are!

I started with 1 1/2 yards of linen fabric (on sale! only $7!).

I used pillow inserts from pillows that came with the couch, they were hiding in the basement because they were made from terribly scratchy material (so that was free!).

I wanted to make birds...so I did.

I drew a simple little birdy, cut him out, and traced him in the bottom corner of the square (mine was 22" by 22" so I could sew 1" in on each side to make it 20x20 for the insert to fit inside..kinda guessed, and it worked).

I thought maybe he needed a friend, so I traced him again (3" from the bottom and 3" from the side)

I bought brown yarn on sale ($2) and a huge needle (have no clue what it's really for..)

Then I started tracing my drawing. I'm not a sewer (just a beginner) and I call my stitch "looping". I am sure it has a real term. This is how I did it so there was no linen showing between the stitches.

Kind of an under and back over, then waayy under, then back over... I don't know. But it worked - see?

Always need a helper!

Or 2 helpers!

See this zipper? It was about to push me over the edge. I am a visual learner. Show me once and I've got it. Zippers are terribly confusing for me. I stole the zipper from the scratchy pillow case (free!). Thankfully after ripping it out I had the other pillows zipper to look at in order to figure out how to put this one on. I have no idea how it got on there correctly, but it did...twice! I successfully placed 2 zippers and hope to never do it again.

The 1st pillow

..and it's other half!

I decided to make the second one with just 1 bird to switch it up. I didn't want it to be too matchy.

p.s. so far Eloise has not attempted to steal or destroy either pillow...