{"id":45479,"date":"2019-03-27T07:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45479"},"modified":"2019-03-24T10:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T17:09:28","slug":"under-the-sea-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Sea Pillow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Under the Sea ready to bind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to finish Under the Sea by now, but I had to backtrack and do some repairs, so finishing will take longer.<\/p>\n

I made the piece into a pillow. To do that I used up the polyfil I had leftover from the dolls<\/a> I made for my little niece. I didn’t have enough, so I cleared out my batting scraps and used bits of batting for the rest of the stuffing. I would have preferred all polyfil, but as a lot of this project was from reclaimed materials, I thought the batting scraps were fitting.<\/p>\n

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Under the Sea back – Michael Miller print<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wanted to control where the stitching went, so I didn’t plan on sewing right sides together and turning the piece. I sewed wrong sides together, then left an opening I could use to fill the pillow.<\/p>\n

The backing fabric is from the Michael Miller London Portfolio collection. This particular print is called Anjou Pour Vous. I don’t know why it would be called that if the collection is called London Portfolio, but I am sure the designer has a reason. I have a number of these prints and will have to use one for a backing.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to put a black binding on. I did that to cover the raw edges, then machine sewed the back down. I ran into problems with the black thread catching some of the pillow top and also showing in the corners where it didn’t quite match up with the top binding. Again, I ripped and replaced the bobbin with Aurifil monofilament<\/a> and restitched the binding so the mismatched binding front wouldn’t have a black line around the corners on the actual top.<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0 the larger glass beads are coming off. For some reason, my French knots are not strong enough to hold them with the stress of handling. Again, I am using Aurifil monofilament<\/a> to secure the beads and not disturb my overall design. The Aurifil monofilament<\/a> is a hassle to use, so that is also a thankless task.<\/p>\n

I will be so glad not to see this project on my to do list when I am finished. I know I will like it again, but right now I don’t.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to finish Under the Sea by now, but I had to backtrack and do some repairs, so finishing will take longer. I made the piece into a pillow. To do that I used up the polyfil I had leftover from the dolls I made for my little niece. I didn’t have enough, so … Continue reading “Under the Sea Pillow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477],"tags":[149,313,161,16,420],"class_list":["post-45479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-art-quilts","tag-embellishment","tag-embroidery","tag-finishing","tag-under-the-sea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}