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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Look See Pillow Cover


A while back, I carved a linoleum block with the words "Look" and "See." Originally, I used it to make some eyeglass/sunglass cases for my shop.

I wanted to play around with the words some more. Sometimes it is fun to break out and make a bold design and that's what I felt like doing today.
Prior to appliqueing the glasses, I used fusible web to attach two pieces of my handprinted "Look See" fabric onto the pillow front. I quilted the front of the pillow with random straight lines in white thread. Then I fused the eyeglasses and appliqued them with black thread.
The back is a piece of fabric that I hand printed, as well, and quilted similarly. The binding fabric is a home dec fabric in a textured chartreuse.

It is fun graphic image but it can be deep too...do you look or do you really see? Hmmmmmmmm....

13 comments:

  1. Fun...definitely a "break out of the mold" kind of project. :)

    (Are you going to enter it in the Sew Mama Sew contest?)

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  2. That is so much fun, Amy! I love how the binding finishes it off!

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  3. This is super cute fabric. I can't wait until mine arrives!!

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  4. Amy, what a great pillow....between yours and another pillow I have seen I need to make some new ones. What a profusion of ideas you have!!!

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  5. Hahahaha....I had an eye doc appt this afternoon....evidently my far away vision got better but my up close vision....let's just say I am getting old!:)

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  6. Oh my gosh, I have never seen a pillow I like as much as this! it really hits the spot.ha.hah.ah.ah.ahah..a.
    everytime I think you have out done yourself you do it again!!!

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  7. this is so awesome!!! I LOVE it!!

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  8. You should totally enter that in the 'words to live by' pillow contest category on SMS, Amy!!! It's fab!

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  9. wow - i can't believe you actually made that print! i agree with poppyprint, you NEED to enter this!

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  10. This is wonderful!!! Love it!!!

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  11. Very very clever with the hand printed fabric. I like the glasses.


    Angie - craftedAngles.com

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