I made this pillowcase for my niece when she was born five years ago, and have had it back the last few days for a few minor repairs…
Yes, the patchwork is intentionally wonky. I am normally very obsessive about exact squares and perfectly matched corners and edges, so this sort of inexact “naive” style was a nice change. I enjoyed the randomness of it!
The design is my own. I had the vision in my head of a little pink cottage with a skewiff picket fence in a field of green; but made it up pretty much as I went along, based on a few similar sorts of designs that I’ve seen over the years in homewares magazines and such. I chose the sharp lime green/hot raspberry pink colour scheme because it was fun and funky; and feminine without being too over-the-top girly.
D’ya wanna hear something funny? My son asked if it was a Space Invader. He’s thought it was one for years. LOL!
The back view… and here it is perched on top of my very first attempt at a slipcover. Don’t look too closely at the slipcover, because this is years old now. It has served as a kitten scratch-post more than a few times, and is a bit thin in some places, a bit ripped in other places, has a few permanent stains, and has a few wonky seam-lines. But I like the less than perfect look of it.
At least I know no one’s been afraid to sit on it.
Your son is funny! Space invaders! lol 🙂 I saw the house, but then I was a patchworker for many years.
Love the bright fun colours!
Lovely. Would you mind giving us a tutorial on the folded pillow case? I'm originally from the UK where we have them like that, but in the US where I live now they come just flat on the ends and the pillows fall out. I have some spare flat sheets that we don't use because we use a top duvet cover, and I'm thinking of using them up to make pillow cases that match the fitted sheets.
Lovely colors for a little girl.
I find fitting slip covers to be difficult at bet :O). I usually wound up spouting several lovely words by the time I am done LOL.
I repeat here the answer of your comment: "Carolyn, we're separated by a lot of water, but we're close by the love of sewing, cats and dogs… I'm really sorry that the languages takes appart people like us… (my english is really poor)."
Kisses.
I love self designed quilting motifs! This is so great. My sister in law made pillowcases for my older daughter for every holiday/month and sent them to her in the mail. It was such a great gift assortment.
This is great, i love the colours.
It is adorable and I'm sure something she has treasured all these years.
so refreshing! friendly and inspired – love it! Thanks for your delightful comment on my WWW necklace;)In my last post it's finally the proof that I love backpacking too;)
Thank you, ladies!
Dorothy, I will certainly do a tutorial on making a "proper" envelope fold pillowcase… I am away from my sewing machine for a few more days, but I will have a go at it as soon as I get home.