Pillow Talk

Do you have extra pillows on your bed? When I walk by a home dec store, or see ads on TV or magazines, showing beds mounded with extra pillows, I am always reminded of a scene in "Along Comes Polly", a 2004 movie with Jennifer Aniston and Ben Stiller: 

I am guilty of having a few extra pillows. (Nothing like I've seen at shops, or was depicted in the movie clip.) I began using my own, sewn pillows 2020 when I participated in an online class with Lori Kennedy, using her book, "25 Days to Better Machine Quilting". Here's a post about the class. Here are a few pictures of some of the pillows I made: 

Recently I dressed our bed in a lighter, summer quilt. The colors of the quilt don't go with most of the pillows I had created.  I selected some fabrics from my stash and began making quick, "envelope back" pillows covers. 

The quilt was made from fabrics I collected on various travels.

It is Bonnie Hunter's Jamestown Landing quilt pattern. 

(Here is a Blog post about making the quilt.)

One of the fabrics I had was a nice soft blue blender. It needed something more. 

That 'more' became a reverse appliqué pattern of butterflies 

made using my embroidery machine. 

My bed may not be acceptable to a designer, but it is my bed and I love the new covers for the pillows!