
For now though I'm content to make a cup of hot chocolate and sit down on the couch sewing up some felt embellished flower pillows as the rain comes pouring down. I chose to make two, based on the state flowers for California and Maryland--the two states where my kids were born.
Of course, it's a bit more challenging to take pictures when it's so dark outside (and inside) all of the time. So let's keep these pictures, real, ok? I took most of the pictures above in my backyard. My pillows only got a tad bit drizzly, but boy did my kids think I was crazy! hah!
Would you like a few more details about the pillows and how they came together? Keep reading below:
They are simple flowers. I cut the flowers and the letters out of wool blend felt, and used a combination of hand stitching and machine sewing to bring them them together. The center of the poppy was just a piece of felt folded in half, notched with scissors, and rolled around on itself. I just sewed through it several times to attach it to the fabric pillow front.
The poppy pieces sewed up like this:
And the Black-Eyed Susan centers are simply pom poms stitched on by hand.
Two relatively simple pillows that bring a bit of the spring inside this winter.
Happy winter everyone, from a very rainy (and snowy) California. (The picture below is from our day trip to the mountains last weekend. Beautiful, right?)
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