Thursday, May 26, 2011

More Pillows {and a Giveaway Winner} : :

Over this past weekend and the last couple of days a few more pillows were made that I have been waiting to show you all! As well as my very first garment, Eeeek!! And, a new tutorial!!! I'm going to save those for a later time and make it all about pillows today!

Say hello to my Owl Stitch Pillow #3!
owl pillow.in a tree
For those of you who are new here, I'd love for you to see Owl Stitch #1 and #2. I am using a Lizzy House's Castle Peeps fabrics for the belly, lots of free motion quilting in black thread to make up my Owl design, and a polka-dot patchwork border. I had to show off yet another blossom tree in these photos too! So, so pretty!!!
owl in a tree
If you're noticing that these polka-dots are the same as my Giveaway Pillow, you're so right! I used the scraps (from a little over-measuring on my part) to create the Giveaway Pillow. A happy mistake, for sure! For those of you who helped me choose the buttons I ended up using option 2. I decided to save those purple wooden buttons for my next owl pillow -- a blue one!
owl pillow.in a tree
I finished the reverse side of the pillow with an envelope style closure, in a fun fabric print with more polka-dot patchwork!
patchwork pillow back
You can find this pillow available in my shop -- listed with a free pillow insert!

And now, The Giveaway Winner!

Well, May Giveaway Day certainly was a lot of fun! This was the first year I both knew of it and participated in it, and I can say now -- it will surely become a yearly tradition for me! First, I want to say a big Thank You to all of you who entered and send a Happy Welcome to all of you who joined me here for the very first time! I was a bit nervous when the Giveaway started about offering something handmade, but all of your lovely comments quickly turned that nervousness into excitement -- I Thank You for that, as well!!! I still just cannot believe I received 505 comments!!!

So, without further ado Mr. Random says our lucky winner is comment # 389, Jessy!!! I hope you enjoy your pillow! I will be in touch right away!

17 comments:

  1. I love your owl!!
    Congratulations to Jesse!!

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  2. I love the photography of your pillow in the tree.

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  3. Thank you! Sadly, my new slr camera broke on Sunday right after I took these pictures! I'll be using my little powershot for a while until I can get a new one. :(

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  4. that is one fantastically beautiful owl pillow! can't wait to check out the others! I love owls and that is quite inspirational!

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  5. So cute! My daughter would go nuts over this!

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  6. Your work is always so beautiful! I love that you have this owl "perched" in a tree. I need your help with photo styling my Etsy products!! =)

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  7. Love the pillow...you are amazing! Congrats to Jessy. So sorry about your camera.

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  8. Cute pillow...and congrats to Jessy!

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  9. Oh congrats to the winner and hello to the new little fellow! He's got so much presonality!

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  10. Those are just the cutest things ever.

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  11. This was an amazing giveaway, such an adorable pillow ! Jesse is one very lucky person. :)

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  12. Congratulations to Jesse, indeed! I think she is very fortunate for that tulip pillow is so beautiful. I am also enamored with the lovely owl, it looks to be sitting on a hand,just like my bird does. I think you work is truly special and has encouraged me a great deal.

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  13. love that owl, great use of fabrics with the design. :)

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