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About Me
- Oksana Starzhynska
- My blog's main subjects are sewing, the thing in which I am experienced the most, and beadwork, which is, in fact, pushed me into blogging. I am also engaged in knitting and crocheting. All together they are the set of skills which I use to make my wardrobe my whole life. These are not my only interests, I also like the English language (that's one of the reasons that my blog is bilingual), try to travel around my country and abroad (when can afford it), am interested in art (to the degree of a dilettante but nevertheless) and adore the people who can create anything beautiful or useful whatever it is :-) So welcome to a needlecrafter diary!
20 October 2018
Maple Leaves Pillow, or Autumn in the House
The pillow is about 39x39 cm, remnants of thin coat fabric, a zipper (it is better to have as long as the width of the pillow, but I only had a shorter one to match, so I used it), and the motifs for the decor, in fact, they will be appliqué.
The next step is to arrange the motifs. They can be either basted to the pillow or pinned if the details' textures are not smooth. I started with the bigger leaf, pinned it, then stitched. Then, I did the same with the smaller one.
Then I took a break because it became obvious that the picture needed some bright spot to be enlivened. So I crocheted five yellow puffy flowers and added them to the composition. The flowers are stitched along the green circle and thus create a 3-D effect.
Now it's time to sew the zipper.
The last step is to join both parts of the pillowcase. Before stitching, don't forget to leave the zipper open to turn out the item.
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Great idea!!! Beautiful pillow :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the warm words:-)
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