Have you seen all the wonderful winter pillows available this year?
Pottery Barn, $50 & $55 [originally $70] for just the cover
My daughter fell in love… ” I bet I could make those~” I said…[visualize head smack here]
So off I went, thinking no problemo!
Okay here’s the problemo…
Fur ain’t easy to sew…nope, it’s not much easier than trying to sew the fur running around on a live version. It slips, it sheds, it’s thick, it clogs your machine, and generally makes for a long afternoon…
After struggling through pillow #1, I got smarter
this might have taken a while…
Instead of making pillow #2 with adorable Santa’s whisker white trim, I made a pillow back with the Santa’s whisker stuff…not quite the same look, but sooooo much easier 🙂
By pillow #3, I turned into a genius! No fussy fabric, just stitch and go!
But I tried
And I learned that sometimes things come from unexpected places…
I ditched the sewing machine, took the rest of the fur, and used an iron-on heat bond strip to finish the edges. I ended up with an awesome fur table runner
which to me is so much cooler than the impractical place mats that I totally fell in love with at Pottery Barn~
that HH said would be like eating on a cat…
Now the good news is that DD has a giant dog and a 20 month old, so if someone asks why her pillows look wonky, she’s got a built in excuse 🙂
I did discover that maybe $50 isn’t too expensive for a fur trimmed pillow after all…
Sorry there is no tutorial, the red pillow was/is truly a hot mess that I was able to salvage just a wee bit with some hand sewing…
if you have a fancy machine with lots of pro attachments this might be easy peasy, but I don’t and it wasn’t and I won’t subject you to the carnage…
I’m still vacuuming up fur, and fuzzy bits…
and I’m sorta missing that awesome gray sweater I cut up…
and DD is probably wishing she didn’t have a cheap crafty mom and that I should have just bought the pillows…
but where’s the fun in that?
Sorry Kim, I know you are cringing…please visit Kim over at Curtain Queen Creates, she has awesome sewing tutorials for everything!
AND, Happy Thanksgiving!
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