Pottery Barn inspiration...

This post should be entitled Pottery Barn inspired pillow but I didn't want to scare you away with you all thinking 'oh god, no - not another pillow post!"

sorry but I've been trying to make a load to fill my etsy store so that I can concentrate on making Christmas decorations ready for my parties.

Last pillow post - I promise.

Last night I made this...

For some time I have been lusting after the Pottery Barn pillow shown in the picture below.  We don't have Pottery Barn in the UK so I'm stuffed!

I had some burlap left over from my pillows and some Christmas banners I've been making and it was just enough to make another pillow.

You know how it goes - mark off lines with freezer paper, paint stripes on with fabric paint..

I then hemmed the top and bottom leaving the ends open with the intention of adding snap fasteners underneath the buttons on both ends.  This didn't look right so I decided to put the pillow (I had bought last week for display purposes when photographing my pillows to list on etsy and which I now have to replace) inside and hem around it leaving a flap on each end.  The buttons were sewn onto the front flap and then I sewed the ends closed.

I love how it turned out but want to make two really big ones for my sofa's so I can get rid of all my other pillows and just have one really big long one down the middle - what do you think of that idea?

If you haven't come across freezer paper yet you are missing out - it is the best thing ever for making stencils to paint onto fabric.

so in the words of Tigger "TTFN"

xoxox