I thought I would share one of my old projects. I made these pillowcases shortly after getting my sewing machine last year. I wanted to test it out with a relatively easy shape, but added some difficulty with the appliques that I created and sewed on around the edges. I wish I had more pictures of the process to make this post more of a tutorial.
On the pillows with appliques, I had to do all the applique work before sewing the actually pillow pieces together. On this birds-on-telephone-wire pillow, I started by hand sewing or embroidering the telephone lines. On the wrong side of the front piece of fabric I drew straight lines across the pillow and embroidered across those lines using the stem stitch, a basic embroidery technique.
After that I created all the little bird appliques using felt. I strengthened the felt with interfacing on each piece. Then I glued the birds in place with fabric glue. Once the glue dried, I used my sewing machine to sew along the edges of each applique. They're not coming off, to say the least.
To finalize the pillow, I sewed the front piece to the back pieces. This has an envelope pocket.
These chess-piece/silhouette pillows were very simple to make since I didn't make any appliques for them. They were so easy, I made two!
They also were made with an envelope closure.
This octopus pillow used the same technique as the bird pillow. I just had to carefully cut out the eyes after attaching the interfacing and before gluing and sewing the the pillow. I chose a more complementary/visible thread to border this one.
Surprise, surprise...I made this one an envelope pocket as well. I just orientated it differently. Not necessarily on purpose.
Hopefully, I will get these guys on Etsy sometime soon. I just want to get more of an arsenal of goods before I list anything.
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