Let me just start off by saying these pillows were quite time consuming….but well worth it. They turned out amazing. My client gave me a picture of some pillows that she wanted me to replicate.

The front one has a torn edge  ruffle with a 1″ cream ribbon topstitched over it. The pillow in the back has a rolled hem on both edges of the ruffle and is made out of a gauze type linen (ruffle part only). The main body is made from white linen.

Close up to show the ribbon and frayed edge.

Gauze linen ruffle…gathered and topstitched on the front of the pillow.

The ruffles for both pillows were topstitched to the front of the pillow (leaving about a half inch from the edge…so that I could attatch the back). Once the front of the pillow was finished I sewed the back onto the front…keeping the ruffle out of the way as I sewed.

Wish my pictures were better for you, so you could appreciate them as much as my client will. We used down forms in them…so they are squishy and yummy, the way pillows should be.

I love the before and after on this one….HUGE transformation!

Before dated old wingback in some type of velour/velvet fabric…my client’s husband loves this chair and sits in it all the time. The old cushion’s foam was pretty old, so we ordered a down envelope and slid the existing foam in it. So the cushion went from 3″ thick to 5″ thick. I thought the squishy thicker cushion helped to bring this chair up to date.

After…. she chose a white denim fabric, and we did a 3/4 length skirt to let the bottom of the legs show. She’s planning on refinishing the legs.

Close up of wing.

Close up of inside arm…and those “telephone” arms…at least that’s what I call them.

Outside wing.

Here we are at the Hoover Dam…pretty cool, the boys loved it. We went early, because the pool didn’t open till 10 am. We decided we couldn’t happily hold the boys off for two hours, so we headed to the dam.

Here are my three boys at Red Rock hiking and climbing on all the big rocks.

Three days after we got home Heber went in to get his knees scoped (they have still been hurting him a bunch since he had his ACL replaced last August). So now he is recovering and limping around. He can no longer do any of the races with me…he’s pretty bummed. Me too, but he is going to come and be our driver for Wasatch Back in June.

I have been loving my new menswear slipcovers in the front room, but I felt like something was missing. I think it was because all my prints were small or solid. Then I remembered the second set of slipcovers I had made for my chairs years ago made of black and cream toile. I pulled them out to see if they’d work with everything else I had going on.

I thought they worked pretty well, so I am going to give my white set a break for a little while.

I had topstitched brown pom pom balls along the bottom edge.

I think the large print is what I needed for a little “wow” factor…or at least it’s fun to look at something different for a bit.

Here’s the whole room put together  (I missed the overflowing shoe basket in the corner…that has baseball gloves, bats, and back packs piled up on it)

I even threw on the steel blue/cream houndstooth too…just to see. Any opinions? Solid, pieced, or houndstooth?