9.25.11

Saturday was one of those days where I didn't have a single thing planned.  I love those kind of Saturdays.  

I slept in and when I did finally get up I just sat in the living room with my cup of tea and caught up on my magazines.  As I was sitting there, flipping through the pages, I started looking at my living room with a critical eye.

Things were looking a bit cluttered and fussy to me.  Too much going on visually and not the soothing refuge I envision for it.  

There are certain elements that I just can't change.  Like the floral on the love-seats and the plaid on the Bergere chairs.  But I can control all the stuff I have adorning all the surfaces.  

I started off with this throw pillow.  Perfectly serviceable and it certainly goes with the color scheme in this room.  But I decided that three different patterns on one 14 x 24 pillow was too much.  

So I headed to Joanns (where I advised a Nun on the relative merits of two different fabrics for her habit.  Like I'm an expert or something….) and picked up some creamy white, bottom weight fabric.  I wanted it to have heft to it but not be too stiff.  I find bottom weight fabrics make good upholstery fabrics for smaller projects.

I basically just made the same pillow cover but in the creamy white. The only difference is instead of a zipper I put an overlapped opening in the back.   

Then I took an antique tray scarf that I bought a few months ago and basted it to the front for texture and interest.  

I think the entire project cost me $10.  Half for the fabric and half for the tray scarf.  The pillow was free.  

Not a bad way to fritter away a Saturday.