my ongoing pillow project: the search for fabric
I intend to recover my throw pillows sometime this year. I know a year is a very large window, but I don’t like to stress myself out with deadlines. It’s not the actual sewing I’m concerned with; I’m a decent sewer, and if I dig my sewing machine out from the hall closet, the recovering will really take no time at all. The large window of time is to accommodate my search for the perfect fabric for the project. I love this zip code pillow from CB2, and while I’m not fully ready to commit, I think it has inspired me to find skyline fabric for my pillows. A quick search uncovered this colorful cityscape fabric. What do you think? –Erica P.
Hmm. I like the colors of this fabric, but the image is a bit…muddy. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What does the sofa or chair you’d like to put it on look like? Solid or print? What color(s)? What kind of window treatments do you have the room and what’s on the walls?
Here’s one of my favorite cityscape patterns:
http://www.quiltersquarters.net/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?product=black_and_whites&productid=M17785
Here are some better photos of the whole collection.
http://www.blankquilting.com/FabricDetails.aspx?collectionid=93
it’s a bit older, so some of the prints are getting scarce, but they are out there if you hunt online.