Peek-a-boo Pillow

Peek-a-boo Pillow
Originally uploaded by Green Kitchen.


pillow_detail
Originally uploaded by Green Kitchen.

Well, I'm a little sad this pillow, and a couple other ideas, didn't get accepted as projects for a future patchwork book, but I'm a lot happy that I get to post them on my blog sooner, rather than later. I found it totally frustrating to keep the things I made a secret. The Bitter One, on the other hand, is going to have to keep her two projects under wraps.

The details:
Patchwork panel pillow made of thrifted fabrics in a variety of textures (corduroy, felted-tweed, burlap-esque something or other, denim) cut and stitched together in a free form sort of way to mimic the wood railing that the boys are peeking through. I just happened to have a photo of each of my boys playing peek-a-boo, which drove the design direction. I printed the photos on a store-bought ink jet fabric. I should have used some interfacing on the back of the patchwork strip because the stuffing is already pushing one of the seams out. To add to the wood sub-theme I machine-appliqued some faux wood grain with contrasting thread to the denim strips in the patchwork.

Forgot to mention that this was the original inspiration.