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| Finished retro truck pillow |
This year for Christmas, I made Christmas throw pillows for each of my children. For my daughter and her husband I chose this retro truck design from Embroidery Library.
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| Finished front showing the serged edges |
I chose a lightweight tone on tone cotton fabric for the embroidery design. I did fuse a stabler to the back to provide it with more body. I hooped the fabric and floated a piece of tearaway stabilizer underneath. Even with all that I had some puckering and outlines off because of the very high stitch count. If I would do this design again I would use a heavier fabric.
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| Trimming the covered cord |
For the pillow, I had some plaid wool in my stash. When cutting the frame for the stitched piece, I made sure to line up the plaid. That probably took longer than the rest of the pillow construction. After piecing the front I trimmed the corners to prevent dog-ears and then serged a piece of lining to the back. For the cord, I used deep green wool from my stash. A zipper in the back was the last step and then I sewed front to back.
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| Corner detail showing the cord and matched plaid |
I was quite pleased with how it turned out, even though the embroidery wasn't perfect. The matching of the plaid is that custom touch that you won't find in most off-the-shelf pillows.
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| Detail photo of the embroidery design |
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