After we took the Christmas pillows down the sofa looked naked, so I got fabric to make pink pillows for Valentine's Day. It took a while (I've been busy) but I finally finished all four pillows.
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| Scrappy string-pieced squares |
I made two 16" covers, with a paper-piecing technique from here. I used 1-2" strips of all the fabrics to make a scrappy looking top.
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| I like the pinwheel look of these two. |
For the 14" squares I used only 3 fabrics and cut strips to make 8 identical squares. I then put them together into fours.
One with the lightest fabric in the middle
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| This one is my favorite! |
And one with the darkest fabric in the middle. I'm bad at math, so the 8 "squares" were really rectangles, so I trimmed them down and added a second border to make the 14", which I actually really like. I had planned on a border of the backing fabric, but I like the second border a lot.
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I always make envelope back pillow covers, with at least 6 inches of overlap.
I find the cover looks better with more overlap |
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