Sewing Pillow Covers

This is my second time making pillow covers. These are for my sister...she found the fabric online at www.fabric.com and had it sent to me. I made these the same way I did here: http://melissarproject.blogspot.com/2012/04/sewing-machine-love.html

This picture is showing the inside of the pocket that the pillow will slide into. I left about a 5 inch overlap which worked great.

 On this pillow I almost made the same mistake as last time. I was just about to start sewing but decided to check things...and sure enough I did it again. Both sides of the material should always be facing in...so when you flip it right-side out you have a nice pretty pillow, not an inside-out looking one. Luckily I only had to unpin this one...the last one took me hours of seam ripping.

Front and back of the covers

All done...I put one of my pilows in the case and it turned out quite nice. I shipped them off to New Mexico to their new home on my sisters couch.

This will be a much happier looking pillow now.

Little changes

   

This lamp went through many changes. Wish I had pictures of all of them but I am not too good at remembering to take pics yet (am trying to get better). So to recap all of the colors:
Original - Stained wood with brass base
black with satin silver base, then black with black base
green with hammered silver base, then green with white base
Final - white with white base
It did cost me 5 cans of spray paint...still less than the cost of buying a new one. I got the lampshade from a lamp I already had...worked out great

This is our fireplace with the brass doors

I bought some high heat flat spray paint from Home Depot and sprayed it black. This made it look much better. Next is the tile.

And this is just embarrassing. This is Chris's office...needless to say it has a leak. The roof over this room is flat so water just finds its way in. We plan to redo the roof which is why we haven't bothered to repair it. So, Chris had a moment of brillance...he stapled some thick plastic to the exposed wood (because we removed the ceiling) and cut a hole in the middle and it drains right into the bucket. We have since swapped the bucket for a trash can since it was filling up too fast. Works perfectly!