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Friday 16 March 2012

Patching

patchwork grey pillow panels

I have been doing this for a long time now, at least in my head....some patching....
Making patchwork and patched things is something that beside a few clothes I did here and there and there and even a bit very proudly there, wasn't in my sewing "must do" list. I suppose that people in the fabric world are usually orientated toward clothes or toward quilts. But I think that doing quilts is much more appreciated as every fabric line has a quilt or quilts going with the line, showing the way prints can be matched. So, as I am becoming truly obsessed with fabric design, I think it's about the time to become a bit more obsessed with quilts and patchwork.



And ever since I saw this bag, I knew that I have to try something like that in fabric.
I have started with two fabrics, first light grey animal fabric is my own fabric(the first fabric I designed on Spoonflower), available here and the other cherry blossom is Alexander Henry fabric.

patchwork grey pillow fabrics patchwork grey pillow fabric stripes

I cut the 2"(5 cm) stripes and sew them alternately.

patchwork grey pillow stripes

Then I did that sort of honeycomb cathedral stitching that looks like smocked. I am sure that that style exists with the proper name in the quilting world and would love to know how it is actually called.

patchwork grey pillow finished main piece

patchwork grey pillow close up

I then did the random patching with the rest of the fabric, just like I did with this sofa and have completed the pillow case.

patchwork grey pillow front piece assembled close up

patchwork grey pillow in work

patchwork grey pillow in work

I am loving my first attempt and can't wait to try some more styles and things.

patchwork grey pillow

patchwork grey pillow
Enjoy the weekend,
Katarina

3 comments :

The Thompsons said...

What a beautiful pillow! I love the center of it -so cool!

Katarina said...

Thank you, I am really very pleased with how it turned out!:))xx

nic said...

oh my goodness, this is amazing! you paired the perfect prints for this, too. wonderful, katarina.