I have had some time to do some creative things recently. With last week’s SnOMG hitting us squarely in the face here in Illinois I had two days to sew. I didn’t spend all of that time in my sewing room but I did find time for some pillows.
The big red couch in our new basement room looks great and really brightens up the “chick cave” we’ve made down there. But it needed more. The top pillow was inspired by a project I worked on at work from a new book we got in (I apologize I forgot the name and author, I’ll try to remember to get it tomorrow when I’m at work. It has some really great projects in it!) I loved the improvisational piecing and use of scraps.
I also wanted to use the red and white polka dots for piped edges and put in an invisible zipper now that I own a #35 Bernina Invisible Zipper foot. So I did:
I’m just loving the Moda “It’s a Hoot” fabrics, especially the polka dots. The second pillow I made using a similar improvisational log cabin block. On this one I chose not to do the piped edges and put the zipper right in the seam.
It’s funny how things work out. Originally I intended to decorate the basement in yellow and grey, very modern and cool. But then we went with the red slipcover, which I love. That led to opening up a whole world of color opportunities. The nice thing about a couch with a slipcover and pillows with zippers, I can change them whenever my mood and budget allows. By keeping the hard furniture and most importantly, the walls, a simple neutral color, I can really play with the rest of the stuff. This is surprisingly a new revelation for me. I’ve always been a “paint it all the colors of the rainbow” kind of decorator. I always thought paint is cheap, furniture is not. So I’d buy boring colored furniture and paint the walls deep saturated colors. I’m liking the change. Not enough to go back to the builder’s beige we had on every surface of this house when we moved in but it is a nice palette cleanser so to speak.
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