But, getting back to the point, I love pillows and I wanted to recover my family room pillows. The year before, my roommates and I decided to do a Maroon and Gold color scheme to honor the University of MN Golden Gophers, since we were both Minnesota natives. This time around we decided we want to go a bit more "girly" because there were only two of us (both females) in the apartment.
First step was getting the fabric, washing it, ironing it (which I always hate doing, but have enough experience to know that it makes a difference) and then drape it over the couches to see what colors I wanted with what. Now, I bought the fabric so that it had the same color palette so it could, theoretically all go together. But since I have different sizes of pillows I wanted to see what worked best.
The Winning Combinations:
And, just for fun - the combinations I tried but didn't like as much
I got my materials ready, and then my sewing machine broke - womp womp. Then I took apart my sewing machine, cleaned out the broken thread as well as ordered jean needles to get through the thicker uphostery fabric and tried again.
I first sewed the hems, so I would have nice clean edges
Then I folded it into a envelope - I wanted to make removable pillow covers so I could wash them if needed. After folding it then I sewed the two raw edges to make a pillow case. (here is is inside-out and folded, ready to sew)
Flipped it back so the nice side was out, and had some pillows:
I actually ended up covering 11 pillows but apparently only took pictures of these four, I'm sure the other 7 will make appearances in upcoming posts!
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