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While browsing through one of my favorite window shopping locations, PaperYa on Granville Island, I saw some lovely accessories created with ivory canvas and a whole lot of stitching to look like notebook paper. As usual with my widow shopping adventures, I thought 'I can make that'. So I did.
You can do it, too!
I could have left the pillows blank, but I decided to embroider a quote on each; one from Alice in Wonderland, and the other from the great mind of Einstein. I particularly appreciate the Einstein quote, both as an artist and a dyslexic.
This can be applied to most any project you want to make, because the beauty is in sewing the lines before you cut the fabric. I can see making anything from wallets, purses, or even shirts with this technique. Since I wanted to re-do our couch pillow covers, my task was particularly easy.
I measured to make sure I had enough fabric lengthwise to cover both pillows and then I started sewing many a straight line with blue thread. I did it at 1/4" intervals so that I just had to use my sewing machine presser foot as a guide. So easy, right? Admittedly, this is a tight spacing of lines, which means a lot more time to do this part. You could space them further apart if you like, which would take far less time, but I wanted it to look more like the actual spacing on notebook paper. After that, you can do one (or two, closely spaced) line(s) in pink perpendicular to your blue lines. I estimated the placement for my pink line to be 3.5" in from the left seam of the pillow, as that seemed good for the proportions of my pillows. This measurement would fluctuate, depending on the size object you were applying this to.
There are slight irregularities throughout this, such as not always perfectly straight lines and thread thickness where I ran out of a bobbin in the middle of a line. I decided to embrace these as being 'rustic' or some such thing instead of getting OCD over it.
While browsing through one of my favorite window shopping locations, PaperYa on Granville Island, I saw some lovely accessories created with ivory canvas and a whole lot of stitching to look like notebook paper. As usual with my widow shopping adventures, I thought 'I can make that'. So I did.
You can do it, too!
I could have left the pillows blank, but I decided to embroider a quote on each; one from Alice in Wonderland, and the other from the great mind of Einstein. I particularly appreciate the Einstein quote, both as an artist and a dyslexic.
Should I ever want more of a blank canvas look, I can just turn the pillows over, since the backside of each is quote-less.
This can be applied to most any project you want to make, because the beauty is in sewing the lines before you cut the fabric. I can see making anything from wallets, purses, or even shirts with this technique. Since I wanted to re-do our couch pillow covers, my task was particularly easy.
I measured to make sure I had enough fabric lengthwise to cover both pillows and then I started sewing many a straight line with blue thread. I did it at 1/4" intervals so that I just had to use my sewing machine presser foot as a guide. So easy, right? Admittedly, this is a tight spacing of lines, which means a lot more time to do this part. You could space them further apart if you like, which would take far less time, but I wanted it to look more like the actual spacing on notebook paper. After that, you can do one (or two, closely spaced) line(s) in pink perpendicular to your blue lines. I estimated the placement for my pink line to be 3.5" in from the left seam of the pillow, as that seemed good for the proportions of my pillows. This measurement would fluctuate, depending on the size object you were applying this to.
There are slight irregularities throughout this, such as not always perfectly straight lines and thread thickness where I ran out of a bobbin in the middle of a line. I decided to embrace these as being 'rustic' or some such thing instead of getting OCD over it.
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what a lovely idea, and relatively simple too!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! I may attempt to "write" a letter to my daughter and son on pillows. TFS!
ReplyDeleteI love them! Simple and pretty :)
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