The Sophie Pillow....

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So here you guys go... another pillow. This pillow was a request of my co-worker... it was for her dog. She saw the Elwynn pillow and liked it so much that she asked if I could make her one for her dog... I of course said yes.

She really wanted something funky and asked if I could do a dog bone shape, originally I said yes but after my visit to the local fabric store it wasn't possible. She wanted zebra print and there was simply no zebra available. So I bought zebra ribbon and sewed it to a black 1.5 inch base... then sewed all those strips together. This took so much longer than I thought it would... I followed a pattern and tutorial from here however if I were... and I would, make this pillow again I would make a few changes.

First cut you white back ground 11.5 inches not 10.5 (10.5 is really hard to put most names on unless they are either short or you have much smaller font... but lets face it this is a NAME pillow so we want the name to be bigger).

I cut 42 1.5x 3 inch strips... in 3 different fabrics... I would not do this the same... it takes so much longer, personally I would do... ( and I hope this makes sense)

I would do as many at the same time as possible... so you need 13 on top of your alternating colours...

so: 13 strips of 1.5x 6 inches... once they are all sewn together... cut them at the 3 inch mark... then repeat for the sides... which were 6 strips....

Does this make sense???

Applique was I guess easy... I was just having one of those days and was too stubborn to give up... I redid the back (black side) 3 times... yep that's right 3 times... I was not a happy person.

So this is it... other than those changes I loved making it, and I AM IN LOVE with how it turned out...

Have a great day!

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