Fashion Inspired Pillows

These are the pillows I have been working on…

So, I know we all love Anthropologie, especially the incredible styling of the catalogs.  When the fall catalog came I was so in love with all of the equestrian styled fashions and backgrounds.  I have shared some of the images below..

Ralph Lauren also had some amazing ads this month with all kinds of beautiful tweeds and plaids.  But despite my best efforts, I can not find the ad and I really did not want to tear it out of the catalog in the hair salon.

Anyway, somewhere in the midst of all of this I was in Joann Fabrics and found myself drawn to the suiting fabric department and I fell in L.O.V.E.  I should have taken a picture of the fabric stack, but hey, I am still learning this gig!

Then, I was getting dressed one day and I pulled out a belt.  I quickly realized that this was a belt from most likely high school and there was no way that baby was going around my waist!  It hung on my railing for several days intended to put in a bag for Goodwill.  Until, I had an idea!

So here is somehing you do not know about me.  I do not sew.  I am totally intimidated by a sewing machine.  I am going to work on changing that, but until then, I use all different versions of sewing tape. 

Here is sort of the process.  I did even get all fancy and did an “envelope enclosure” back on two of the three pillows..



So here are my completed pillows:

First, I did one in a beautiful tweed backed with a blue herringbone and wrapped it in the belt.  This fabric was the very solid and two sided.  However, it was expensive.  I did buy in on sale but I only bought a small quantity.  I used the blue fabric on the back because I like the contrast and because that was a fabric I found on the clearance racks.

This one is definitely my favorite.



Here is a close up of the fabric.



Then I used another tweed for a long pillow and added some rosettes in the same fabric. This is my first time doing rosettes.  I know, nothing revolutionary.  However, I would like to thank my sister for telling my honestly that my first one stunk so that I would try again and get much better results this time.





I also am totally in L.O.V.E. with crewel and I have been for some time.  A few weeks after I picked up the tweed fabric I was again in Joann’s and found a beautiful brown crewel fabric that I used for this pillow.



I have put them on the sofa and loveseat in our family room and mixed them with some of our existing pillows.  I would love to say that I made the cable knit pillow, but I actually found it on sale at Pier 1.








Thank you to the folks at The CSI Project for having a pillow inspired link party this week.  I started this project weeks ago and that was just the fire under my tush I needed!

So, I will be sharing this post at:

And the parties in my sidebar!  Thanks!