Pile of Pillows 2017

Pile of Pillows

     That past four mornings were spent with three girls sewing pillows for their rooms.  The pillows they made were a flange pillow, then pieced squares, followed by a blog cabin and finally a patchwork one with silk flowers.

Kelsey and her blog cabin pillow

Kelsey's pillows

     Kelsey has been taking summer lessons with me for a few years.  She not only finished the four pillows that I had planned but also a rectangle one just using two fabrics, the feather fabric and the coral and white geometric print.

Kara and her patchwork pillow

Kara's pillows

     Kara has also been taking summer sewing for a few years.  She opted for one large flower on her patchwork pillow.

Natalie loving her pieced squares pillow

Natalie's pillows

     Natalie just started sewing with me this spring.  She won a pillowcase class at a school auction, then took beginning sewing a couple of weeks ago and now this pillow camp.  She didn't have time to make buttonholes on her last pillow but did get to sew some buttons on anyway.

Blog cabin pillows

    The girls learned the importance of keeping an even seam allowance so that their blog cabin pillows turned out the right size.  They used the eyelet stitch on the machine to sew their flower petals in place after using Wonder Tape to hold them down.

Pieced squares pillows

   
     Kelsy and Kara made buttonholes and everyone sewed on buttons using the machine.  I did all the cutting for the girls to speed up the process but also to make sure that they were the correct size so that it all went together okay.  The girls said that had fun shopping for fabrics and their choices sure did make for a variety of looks.

Flange pillows

     Now a couple of weeks off and then after school classes will start the week after Labor Day.