As you all know, I love Anthropologie. Last summer, when we actually lived near one, I scooped up some nautical napkins in their clearance section. I wasn’t quite sure what I would do with them at first, but then I knew they need to become pillows.
The real big ones were the first ones I made, a few months ago actually. They already had that rope trim on them and happened to be the exact size I needed to cover the pillow. How cool is that? So I just sewed them together and added a zipper on one of the ends. Easy peasy.
I just did the map ones yesterday. I had only bought one napkin, so I had to just use a part of it in the middle. I surrounded it with some fabric I had in my stash and then surrounded that with more white linen I had.
I made the back so I could just slip the pillow in. Again, super easy. Now I feel like our pillow section is pretty complete and it’s another thing checked off of my super duper long things I want/need to make list 🙂 Have you made anything this week that has been on your list for a long time?
Register says
April 20, 2011 at 2:25 pmThese are fantastic! What a creative brain you have. Love it!
jessnjamie says
April 20, 2011 at 2:47 pmso cute! great idea!
Sweetie Pie Bakery says
April 20, 2011 at 2:51 pmGreat idea! I made a shirt for my husband, that took me over a year to get to!
http://jessicapeck.blogspot.com/2011/04/sewing-for-him.html
Can’t wait to meet your new little one! 🙂
Seaweed and Raine says
April 20, 2011 at 4:41 pmI love your nautical napkins – especially the map ones!!! Anthro seem to have a lot of cool stuff – shame we don’t have one here in Austraila. Might have to try online…
You’ve done a great job, the couch looks fab. 🙂
heartsy says
April 21, 2011 at 10:07 amthese are lovely! I’ve used napkins to create drawstring bags and most recently a paint brush roll-up case. I’ll keep the pillows in mind too.