Tuesday, October 28, 2014

blogger's quilt festival


I'm not really sure what is up with my post writing these days - I keep writing and deleting, writing and deleting, stepping away, coming back, writing and deleting. 

Well, this is my entry for the blogger's quilt festival. I really wish I had remembered that the blogger's quilt festival was this month and saved a project or two to post about but - um, well, I didn't. I originally wrote about this pillow earlier this month. It is basically my most recent try at making something for my couch that I'll hopefully like looking at every day. I've had handmade pillows on my couch since I started sewing but I've never quite made one that fits the aesthetic of my first floor. It is kind of like I wrote about in the post about why I'm redoing the removable covers for my dining room chairs. Don't get me wrong - I love novelty prints (or are they called conversation fabrics or illustrated fabrics?) and I will continue to use them often especially when making things for my daughters. And I love my pile of patchwork quilts that we use almost every day for keeping us warm but, hmm, I'm not even sure how to explain this to me, let alone write about it. I just haven't yet made anything that "fits" - well, this might be it, at least it feels like it "fits" the October 2014 me.  So, while this pillow is not an award winning, wow project - it is my current favorite and that is why I'm using it for my entry this year.



17 comments:

  1. Good for you, Beth. I'm glad you wrote about something you're loving right now. It's a great little pillow!

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  2. I know what you mean about finding something that 'fits'. I think your pillow is lovely - understated, modern and elegant.

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  3. It's lovely, feels really restful with those colours and the relaxed quilting.

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  4. It coordinates beautifully with the sofa!

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  5. I think it is so elegant in its seeming simplicity, yet so sophisticated in the quilting and placement of the design. Love it!

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  6. It's so sophisticated! Very calming too

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  7. Love this pillow - could easily see this selling in a retail store and people just loving them silly. Good luck with the festival!

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  8. I love that you love this - that is what matters the most! And I think it is pretty cool too!

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  9. I think I know what you mean. I often like the backs of my quilts better after they are completed because of their simple design or color usage. But I have way too much fun assembling crazy patchwork in wild colors to stop making "loud" quilt tops.

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  10. This is a very elegant, clean design. Love it!

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  11. Beth I love this project! And is it just me or are you too finding more and more beauty in simplicity? Your blog writing is also just where it should be, adapting to the natural ebbs and flows of life-perfect

    Hillary

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  12. While this pillow is simple and basic in design, it still has a lot of pop to it because it speaks in such a unique way. I do think it fits with the couch that it is on, if that is the couch it will be staying on. The couch seems very simple and basic in design, and this is a great added touch. You can always throw one pillow in for a pop of color, but I really dig the simple design in it! Definitely a conversation piece!

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  13. This pillow is great, as are the shot cotton ones you made earlier this year. I struggle to make things I actually want in my lounge room -- my sewing aesthetic doesn't fit with my interiors aesthetic. I've just sacrificed what I thought would be a grown-up looking grey shot cotton quilt with white crosses to cover the kid-related stains on the couch because it was just too busy-looking, and too crinkly patchworky - all wrong in a mid-century modern room! After that I went and bought new pillows because my chances of making something I'd like seemed slim. So for now I will remember my sewing is primarily a creative outlet to balance the demands of child-rearing and monotonous laundry, rather than to chintz up the house into a patchwork extravaganza. After all, if I were painting instead I wouldn't feel the need to hang everything I made on prominent display.

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  14. Modern and cute. I like the movement in the quilting and the fact that this is something you'll enjoy using every day.

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