Right - my first project post. One of the main reasons I set up this blog was to chronicle the things that I'm doing around the house. I'm hoping that this will act as an incentive for me to be more creative, now that I have some time to indulge in the luxury of being domestic.
Despite getting some lovely bed linen for our wedding, and having heaps of regular sized cases and covers when Mr Starling and I consolidated our separate piles when we moved in here together after the wedding, we didn't have any continental pillowcases for the large pillows on our bed. I had a lovely old pure cotton double bed sheet that I got from a bric-a-brac shop a few years ago, and I decided to sacrifice it in the name of thrift. It ended up making not only the pillowcases, but also a tablecloth that I'm working on at the moment, which I'll hopefully put up here in the not too distant future when it's done.

So, I knew I didn't just want a plain white pillowcase, and I thought it might be fun to monogram some initials. I'm not the world's most patient sewer, so I wanted something that would be quicker to accomplish than the traditional very fine white French-style embroidery. I'm also getting a little obsessed with designs involving flowers and/or birds. I found a handwriting style font I liked, and adapted some bird silhouettes from images I found on the net, and ended up with the designs above.



Luckily the dark lines from the printout showed through enough for me to trace the design onto the cloth with a fabric marker. The colours were chosen to match the other pillows we have on the bed. I'm really happy with the way they turned out - and they only took a few nights of sewing in front of the telly to finish.



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