Special Order - Cailin's Pillows

Cailin called me last week and said she's got company coming! They have a downstairs studio in their home, and she wants to have it in full working order by the time her guests arrive! So, she needed 3 throw pillow covers. And she wanted me to make them. 

Criteria:

1. grey

2. yellow

3. dark blue

My starting off point was these fabrics....

 But if you notice, they do not contain any dark blue, hah. 

You see, I could not envision how dark blue would go with yellow and grey. 

Then I took out my latest obsession: 

the $1 pillow case I got at Salvation Army (which I used on my bandana see post here).

I remembered it had blue and mustard in it. 

But still, not enough dark blue. 

So I went to Sew Special and picked up a reverse version of my 

light grey/navy pinwheel style fabric from their Asian section, 

that I used on my fabric-covered tins (see post here).

And, I remembered I bought Cailin a yellow/grey stripe fabric, 

but had never done anything with it for her yet.

So the collection up to this point was this:

I needed grey, and Cailin said she really loved the yellow/grey paisley... I did too. 

So this is what made the cut (literally):

I cut them at 18", sewed at 17", so they'd fit pillows about 15-16".

 I did an overlapping back

And had to hem one side, but used the end of the fabric on the other side.

 Here's what the back ended up looking like:

I used two complimentary strips of fabric for the fronts of the pillows (back view):

Sewed them together.

Cut off the edges

Best tip ever: for corners, snip them close so they lay better when you turn them inside out. So basic, but makes it so nice. 

Here's #1:

(Ooh! Just noticed that you can see the reverse version 

of the dark blue fabric in the little bunting in the front of the pillow!)

Here's #2:

And #3:

Sorry, Cailin: the little bunting in front of it is not included... 

it's for staging purposes only.

You may recognize it from my "Cord Cover" in this post. 

I love how the 3 colors turned out: grey, yellow and dark blue. 

Great vision Cailin!

Shipping out tomorrow, right after my surprise root canal, in a recycled urban outfitters bag 

(safe to say, UO is our favorite place to make some online purchases... :))

Enjoy!

aloha, 

--becca