Blooming Measuring Tape
Pillow #5
My man very seldom makes any comments about what I sew. However, this piece caught his eye. Most likely because of the measuring tapes...guys use them too. His comment was:
"Somebody got mad at their tape measure and cut it up."
I always thought I was to blame for mis-measurements but I can see now that the tape measure is the culprit and can be punished with scissors!
My tape measures are a download from Digital Collage Sheets that I printed to fabric (quite a while back) and cut apart. I thought I had Wonder Under fused to the back of these but when they didn't "stick" when I ironed them in place...well, surprise! So I had to tack them down with a glue stick. Then made them stay put with circular quilting.
That was all I planned to do but I felt like it just needed a little something more. Glass beads seem to be doing the trick for me.
That was all I planned to do but I felt like it just needed a little something more. Glass beads seem to be doing the trick for me.
I was a bit disappointed to use the same red fabric for the binding, but nothing else worked. Another simple back with a few of the glass beads hanging from the zipper pull.
This was simply a fun wild design idea that popped into my head and I had to put it to play. (I don't kid myself. I'm sure this has probably already been thought up and done somewhere in the universe, but I haven't seen it.) I think #5 looks fun next to #2
What I want to know is why is it that I really like some of these pillow covers while I'm working on them and when I put a pillow form inside them they don't look so wonderful anymore. Why is that?...why is that?
Just do it!
Annie