Last year some time, I read about a mom who made "special occasion" pillow cases for her kids. I told a friend about it who loved the idea too and soon we found ourselves standing in JoAnn's, ready to start getting fabric for this fabulous new project.Then we did the math: 1 yard per pillow, $3 (or likely more) per yard of fabric, 3 or 4 kids per family, 1 pillow per kid per month, 12 months per year. That's at least $108-144 total, maybe even more! For pillows! We quickly got in our car and drove home again.
But then last month, I found a discounted 2-yard remnant covered in hearts. And I remembered the pillow idea. And I thought, Forget the other 11 months; I can just start with ONE special occasion, right? And I figured I could get creative and use less than a yard of the print per pillow (since I had only 2 yards, but 3 daughters).
Finally sewed 'em up this morning, with just 3 days to spare. And I still have enough print fabric to make three more. (The back is solid pink.)
The girls are so excited. Well, the older pair are. Not-yet-two Lucy had little to say about her new pillowcase.
Speaking of Valentine's Day and excited girls, a friend is having a giveaway for a cute cute bracelet. My girls would love this. (I would too.) Winner will be picked on Feb 14. So click on over and enter here.
Hey there - I, too, read about the Special Occasion Pillows some time ago and was extremely tempted to do it, especially since I had Christmas fabric and no Christmassy ideas. Never got round to it, of course, so am glad to see you did something (and a very pretty something, at that!) with the idea! Very creative use of one-fabric-to-make-other-fabric-go-further! I trust you are all feeling better this week?
ReplyDeleteI love these. Great idea!!
ReplyDeleteValentine's Day....what's that?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Karin! I drew your name for the bracelet!
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