Three Pillows!

I've been really busy and meaning to post the pictures of the pillows I've made so far! I have three done, and three more to go.  They're fun to make, and I like sifting through my own ideas to make them unique.

Here's a picture of my first pillow. (It even has it's own blog post, here!)

second pillow- with a bow! (I think it would be cute to wrap a present like this.)

detail of the second pillow (my camera doesn't seem to like working in macro...)

third pillow

 detail of the third pillow (notice that the purple looks nothing like it "actually" should, but I don't have time to mess with color editing right now)

 Three happy pillows, hanging out on the yellow chair!  

Thanks to my mom being able to fix the sewing machine while my parents were visiting, I was able to finish the third pillow. It had been out of commission for longer than I had liked, and was starting to get worried it wouldn't get finished! THANKS MOM!

I also figured out that an envelope back(which I did on the second and third pillows) was much less time consuming than the "other" way I managed to close the first pillows. Good thing I learn fast!

I'm also linking up with the Earth Wonders Photo Challenge! This week's theme is 'clouds'. 

Do you see the foot shaped cloud? 

Next week I have a pharmacology exam- this weekend I must study, study, study. Hope everyone's hanging in there this week- it's almost Friday!!

Pillow #1

I recently bought fabric and pillow forms to make pillows, since I figured the living room could use something new. Most of Friday was spent trying to figure out how to get the sewing machine threaded.  Once I figured that out, the thread kept bunching up on the bottom. So, I'm pretty surprised that I finished it this weekend. It didn't take too long once I sat down to do it.

Here are the four fabrics I'll use- there will be 6 pillows in total.  The hues look kind of weird on my computer screen, though. I kind of sketched out what I was going for... and then pretty much just eyeballed it.  I would have run into less problems if I were "fancy" and used a "measuring tape".  You can see that I recorded dimensions, but I pretty much just ignored those and started cutting. 

The Mr. thought he was being sneaky and took a picture of me sewing. I must have not noticed him. You can see that I'm wearing awesome slippers with my awesome headband/ponytail.  This is why I do not generally write about fashion. :P

Here's a close-up of the blue ruffle that I put on. I think it could look a whole lot better, but the Mr. was nice and complimented it.

Here is the finished product.  I definitely need to learn a better way of stitching the last part closed, once the pillow is stuffed inside. I'm mostly happy with it...1 down, 5 to go!

Other than pillow-making, the Mr. and I went out to eat Saturday and had a pretty relaxing Sunday. It rained all of Saturday and all of Sunday, so we only spent a little time outside. And the weirdest part about the weekend? We saw a clown entering the apartment clubhouse as we were leaving the gym Saturday- I didn't know really what to say. It was awkward.  There must have been a kid's birthday party going on, or something like that.

Happy Monday folks!