After deconstructing the double pocket, I sewed the green part into a little pillow. There was not a lot of linen on the top and bottom for a standard seam allowance but enough to hold a seam. The checked homespun fabric on the back was as usual, slightly wonky. Whenever I use a plaid or check I like the pattern to run straight with the seams and I had a hard time doing that because of the slight twist in the fabric.
So when it came to constructing the red one, I tried something different. And easy! There's surely enough for a seam, but I decided to use the same linen as backing and just machine sew them together, right side out.
The black marks in the photo are showing where the machine stitching is.
I left the backing linen larger and will fringe up to the seam. I think a short fringe would be nice and I don't have to fuss with a backing, corners, closing. Once stuffed I will pin and sew the last edge closed. I have to remember this if I ever cut a margin too short. An easy finish and solution to a tricky problem. Not the first time I did it, but over the years I happen to forget things.
If all goes well and I don't take a match to it, I'll show you how it finished.
For Sue N. - not a dumb question at all. I may not even be using the correct name for what my friend Patti called stompers.
Hope your weekend went swell.
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7 comments:
Looking forward to the finish. It may be something even I can handle.
I call your wooden things mashers.
Marly: I googled wooden stompers, that is what you have are called.
I love your pillows.
Catherine
Love the little pillows.
Thanks for the idea for finishing pillows.
Want to make some small ornies and will used your idea.
We got bombarded with snow yesterday...about a foot of the white stuff and more is being predicted for this coming weekend.
I used to like snow.......not so much now.
I hope you and yours are doing well.
Hugs,
Charlotte in Va.
And wooden stompers are used for packing down the cabbage when making sauerkraut.......google can be very useful!!
Your work on your home is very impressive....
Some of them look like potato mashers I have three, so as a grandchild once said 'You have a collection"! I am always saying three makes a collection!
Ok...so, you couldn’t have shared this brainstorm LAST week Miss Marly????? In addition to several of my own little tucks that I left aging for way too long, I somehow ended up with several little (and I do mean LITTLE) Christmas tucks stitched by someone else....and Ms. Someone Else, left virtually no margins for seams. Ugh.....! But I dutifully followed the “original” Marly Method that I was trying to master....and fudged a few of the seam allowances down.....ummm...WAY down. And now you share this.... Like I said...where where you last week LOL? ~ Robin ~
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