I am finishing a pair of pillow covers, and think they're going to be very nice! A pair of pillows came with my new sofa, and they are a great size and very comfortable. However, they are really ugly and not washable, so I measured them carefully, got out the wonderful stack of stencils I have tucked away, and designed covers. Each side of each pillow will have white fabric stitched with a brightly colored thread in an ornate whole-cloth style pattern. The patterns are all different, of course, as are the thread colors. I am using bias binding tape to edge each piece, and will stitch together three sides and add a matching zipper to the fourth side. One pillow will have burnt red edging, and the other hunter green since I had that bias tape on hand and even had matching zippers -- I suspect that stuff came from my late mother's miscellaneous sewing stuff. Anyhow, the sofa will certainly look nicer with those ugly pillows covered! I do a fair amount of whole-cloth quilting using colored threads, and always make a pillow cover to test out thread colors, since some look great and others pretty miserable and a sample is really the only way to know for sure. And I have found it uses up some of the fairly unattractive cotton fabrics to use them for the inside of pillow covers. By next week the sofa will look pretty good!
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16 years ago