Pillows for the TV room

I have been working hard to make pillows for the tv room. When we moved into this house in February we changed our colors in the tv room so I have been needing all new pillows. Red is the most prominent color since those are the colors of the drapes along with gold, green with maybe some orange.

Choosing the fabrics is one of the best yet frustrating parts of the sewing process to me. Luckily I thought I had some good stacks. This is the first one I pulled together. It is new for me to use black prints but I am really liking them, when used sparingly.



I loved this pillow so I thought I would use Amanda's tutorial to make me one. This pillow is 20"x 20" and I call it my Red Arrow pillow. It really looks great with the 2 pillows that I bought at Target. I just LOVE the flower one soooo much from Target.



Some more black I used. I do have tons of black in my house. Most of my furniture is black so I do love it.



Next up was making a half square triangle pillow using my go! baby cutter to cut them all for me it helped tons! I am just not the skilled when it comes to HST so I was glad to have the go! baby even though it doesn't cut perfectly (alot of times I have to cut strings) but it is better than me doing it.



This one ended up being 19"x 19" which was nice since I stuffed it with my Ikea down pillow form that I got for almost $7 (thanks Erin for telling me about them) which is 20x20.I love the stuffed look of the pillows.



Then I made the little 12"x 12" chevron pillow using Premier Prints home dec fabric. This is my husband and my favorite size pillow along with a larger one to lay on and watch tv on the couch. I also bought the chevron fabric in yellow to make another pillow for the couch but the fabric came with tons of flaws so I am waiting on another shipment of the fabric before I make another one.



All the pillows won't always be on this one couch but for photography reasons it seemed like a great idea. I am loving the way the tv room is coming together with all the fun colors. I am just wanting to make another small pillow once I get it in the mail and maybe one more large pillow so each couch will have 2 or more of the large ones.

Pillow Mania

Last week I went on a little pillow sewing spree! I had set up a little swap with Amy and needed to make her a pillow, Erin's Birthday was coming up and I wanted to make her a pillow. We always make eachother things for our birthday and Christmas presents. Then since I was already making 2 pillows why not a 3rd? I thought it was high time I made a pillow for me and my living room is sadly in need of them so I thought these new text prints that I bought would be perfect!



I bought these prints and that day I wanted to try them out since black ( in quilting, not my house since most of my furniture is black) is not my style but Amy (another Amy there are a ton of them in the sewing world) started using them and I loved what she was doing with them. I always thought black fabric was for the "grandma" quilters but lately I have changed my mind since people have been using it in a modern way that just makes it sing! I think I am converted.



Once I made that block I knew I wanted to make it into a pillow for Erin. She loves scrappy and we have the same taste in fabric so it was easy to go into my stash and find fabrics for her. I made her a large pillow 22"x 22" since I have heard her say many times how she loves large pillows. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN!!!! I didn't take a picture of everything I sent her but Erin did.



I had started making Amy's pillow a little while back and gave her a little sneak peek of it...



I took a break from it since my husband was off of work for a week & a half and we had a little vacation. (We stayed home but we went to the beach, Disneyland and lots of swimming in our pool.) I got the pillow all finished the other day and decided that another one is in the works since I LOVE it. Amy is very lucky I didn't keep it. Spiderwebs are not fast & easy!



I know Amy loved Amy Butler as much as I do and so I used the Sunspots from her LOVE line for the back and binding. I really need to buy more of them I love the Sunspots, remember this picture?



Last but not least was the pillow that I made for me!



I love it and it looks so awesome on my living room couch which I didn't take a picture of it but I do have a picture of the room so you can see how great it would look :) All the Art was painted by my amazing MOM! She is the best.



I had so much fun making these pillows. I just love making pillows for some reason they make me super happy. I even love sewing on zippers!

Completed Quilts of 2010

Thanks so much everyone for the love on my lost quilt. Alot of you asked if it might turn up in a box somewhere but we have taken the time and gone through everything and it is for sure gone. Eventually I know I will be able and want to make a new one for the bed but since we just moved I want to fix up the house. There is alot of projects I am going to want to spend my money and time on so we will see what happens. Plus I have no idea what colors and fabrics to do this time. Making a California King Quilt is a huge undertaking.

Anywho since it is the end to a good year I thought I would show you all the things that I have completed. I realized as I was looking that my post partum/ having a new baby really cut into my sewing this year :) Here are all of my quilts of 2010.



My Pillows of 2010



All my sewing of 2010 ( minus the 2 shirts that I made my girls)



I can't wait to start another year of sewing especially now that we moved into a larger home and I will finally be getting a sewing room.