Ugly the Pillow Gets Dressed

We begin with a trip to Disneyland in the spring of 2008. Hannah Montana was super cool then. Miley Cyrus wasn't off being a crazy bird person in a cage. And my little sister and I had matching pink shirts that we wore on the same day once or twice.

But then I got sick of it and turned it into a pillow.

Flash forward um...2 years? Yes. That bright pink thing was around for a long time.

I made this simple knife edge pillowcase in my Home Decor class. I was going through a shabby chic phase then and I just fell in love with this toile. From Walmart. That was $2 a yard. So I have a lot still and don't know what to do with it now.

So I made another pillowcase out of that fabric and this one was too overwhelming to be on the same bed. So I gave it a sweater. One of my friends had done this with her pillowcase project and it looked really cute. I think this one is kind of dumb.

And since it was dumb I started over and made this super cute selvage pillowcase from a free Moda Bake Shop pattern! I just love love love how it turned out and so happy that I could feature my last little strip of Neptune somewhere that it will be enjoyed. I think selvage projects are just so cool because you can use the tiniest little scrap that has always been thrown away in the past.  I also love it when there are fun words or the fabric has a silly name.

And this is the back!

A close up so you can enjoy it more :)

I Made My Bed

But no really, I've made pretty much everything on this bed.

I didn't make the cute little owl, that was a Christmas gift from my little sister, but it was made locally.  Also the pink and purple quilt that is barely visible was made by my Great Grandma.

I've slowly been reclaiming the front office/my bedroom into my own space.  Its hard when it was already a fully functioning craft room with a futon and it now has all of my belongings in it and half of the room taken up by the bed.  The good thing about having such a big bed is that when it is made half of the room is clean!  

The top quilt is the one I previously mentioned, made with my Neptune charm pack.  I absolutely love it!  Each quilt that I have worked on has been an exercise in new techniques and this one was all about the picots (or prairie points, whichever you call them).  My home decor sewing teacher, Sister Blake, showed me a cheater way of making them without having to cut out and perfectly space each individual square! Amazing.  I'm sure that I'll promise to share it and then forget.  But hopefully I'll remember :) 

The toile pillow on the left and the rosette pillow on the right were both projects for Home Decor. I had never done home dec. sewing before and it caught on with me! In the time we were alloted to do one pillow covering project I made 3.  The center one is inspired by a project that I found on Alisa Burke's blog a while back.  The stems are a combination of hand stitched embroidery and machine stitching. I meant to do it all by hand but I really just got sick of it and wanted it done.  I also cheated with attaching the flowers and hot glued them on.  Since it is just for display I wasn't really worried about it holding up. I'd like to make another one and do quilting on it like she does. Now that I'm all grandma-ly and quilting up a storm.

Mrs. Rachel Denbow is graciously offering 3 spots in her Modern Patchwork e-course.  What a giveaway! Click on the hooray pillow to enter!