Pillows with Stripes on the Bias

My beautiful and talented friend Shanna used this $5 cushion cover from the As-Is bin at IKEA to sew her own chevron pillow. She used this tutorial as a reference.

We all know you can buy chevron fabric, but I really relate to the satisfaction that comes with taking on creative endeavors. Guaranteed Shanna will love this pillow longer than if she had purchased the twinkle living pillow or used the Premier Prints fabric. Plus, I love the chunkier scale of the chevron pattern here and I think the quilted/pieced look is fun - looks more like darts or arrows.

There are so many fun ways to piece together striped fabric on the bias. It reminds me of Windsor Smith's chair in House Beautiful,

and this photo from Nicole's blog:

Have a great weekend! Go make something!
xx

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Pillow Talk

It would be pretty easy to fill a whole book with thoughts about throw pillows and how they are used/placed on a sofa:

1. Perfectly symmetrical

Miles Redd

Nate Berkus

Phoebe Howard

Nuevo Estilo

Gil Schafer

design*sponge

Melissa Rufty

Timothy Wealon

Tobi Fairley

2. Coordinated, but not exactly symmetrical

Can House and Home

Summer Thornton

3. Free style

House Beautiful

Domino

Windsor Smith

What school of thought do you subscribe to?

It sort of depends on the room for me, but often I like a pair of big matching pillows on the ends and one or two odd ones in the middle. I usually like to keep it to four pillows per couch. Five is the absolute MAX for me.

What about you?

P.S. Karate chopped, perfectly fluffed, or casually smooshed?

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Vintage Scarves as Pillows

One of my clients inherited quite a few vintage silk scarves from her grandmother. Lots of Liberty of London and Vera.

We're putting the collection to good use. One will be framed and several others made into pillows. One of my favorite scarves is a sweet blue Liberty of London floral that will go on a chair in the nursery. It looks just like this one, available here:


Both Martha and Eddie Ross have featured this same idea for turning scarves into pillows and shared their instructions here and here.

image via Eddie Ross

image via Martha Stewart Living

Framing vintage scarves is another great idea.

Country Living

Domino

House and Garden by way of Style Court

Martha Stewart Living

World of Interiors via

This framed Vera scarf hung in the Rockefeller Center Anthropologie.

image via the Vera Co blog

If you're not lucky enough to inherit dozens of vintage scarves, check out eBay for an incredible and very inexpensive selection. Here are some of my favorites up for auction right now:

Orange, teal and yellow Vera



YSL



40s floral


Pink and yellow



Vera cityscape


For my color-loving Canadian readers!



Red and gray Vera
Navy polkadots!




Blue and orange stylized floral


Make two boudior sized pillows out of this long Vera floral



French floral


Red and white stripey


Kick start your collection of LofL scarves!



Emerald green (the color du jour for me)


Any other great ideas for repurposing vintage scarves?