fp: deer pillow

Sorry I’ve been such an absentee blogger lately.  I’ve been running in and out-of-town (meaning that I have varying degrees of access to a good internet connection).  The bright and shiny lining of this whole situation is that I’ve had lots of time to make things (Internet fixation?  No I wouldn’t say I suffer from anything like that).

Last week I finished up a little piece of embroidery I’d been working on.  A couple years ago I picked up Aunt Martha’s Baby Animals embroidery patterns, but I hadn’t sat down to work on them until now.  After finally finishing the piece I wasn’t too sure what to do with it, so I turned to everyone’s favourite standby – throw pillow.

The finished pillow is still a little wonky looking.  It needs to be used a bit to pack down the new filling then it should be looking normal.

The border fabric was found at one of my favourite thrift shops in Belleville.  I’m so glad I decided to hand wash the fabric beforehand because it bled like bananas.  I rinsed it again and again, so hopefully it’s all done with this colour shedding nonsense.

This lovely will be offered as a prize at a little baby shindig I’ll be co-hosting next month.  I’m hoping whoever picks her up will give her lots of love and a happy home.

Tags: aunt martha, deer, embroidery, fawn, pattern, pillow, Vintage