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Friday, March 18, 2011

Flying Geese Spring Pillow


I am going to visit some friends in about a week and wanted to bring a gift. I haven't visited in a couple of years and was having a hard time recalling how various rooms were decorated. I contacted the husband via email and asked what color pillow cover might suit his wife's decorating taste. Well, he did not disappoint! How many husbands could answer so completely? He told me that the first floor palette was pretty consistent and that if I stuck with yellows, browns and soft greens I would be safe.

I was a little concerned, not thinking I had fabrics in those colors but I was able to pull together bits and pieces of these prints for a flying geese pillow cover. I love how springy it feels!

I used the Meadowsweet 2 Daisy Path in Robins Egg as my starting point and chose the other fabrics to coordinate. I was thinking of pairing them with an off white until I thought of natural linen, as another shade of the requested brown. I love the look but I have to admit that sewing so many 2" HSTs with linen was not fun. It's shifty stuff and I like my points to line up. I managed OK though with a little help from my seam ripper.
I am looking forward to delivering this gift!

I'm linking to
Blogger's Pillow Party

12 comments:

  1. That is really cute! The color's you used go really well together! I really like the shade of linen you used!

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  2. Looks great, Amy! Nice work!

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  3. Oh it's beautiful! What a thoughtful person you are :-)

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  4. What a great gift! It's always nice to have a new accessory in the house.

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  5. I love, love, love linen but am so scared to use it. I have several yards...I need to take the plunge!

    Great gift girlie!!

    I mailed that cute little card you gave me to Maria today with her birthday gifty!!:)

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  6. I totally love this pillow, your pillows are to die for!

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  7. what a sweet pillow! love the contrast of the yellow and linen

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  8. I really love this! The colors are great!

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  9. Pretty pillow! I love the colors that you used and it is so beautifully executed.

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  10. What a great gift! I really want to make some pillows for our new place. My mom and I are going to check out the huge JoAnn's near my new place and I think I'll need to grab some pillow forms. Thanks for the inspiration! I love the Full Moon dots binding (or is it called a flange on a pillow? I don't know my pillow terminology!)

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  11. I'd be blown away to receive that as a gift. How sweet! I heart the linen!

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