When I first started quilting I bought lots of novelty fabrics. I have no idea what I was thinking at the time other than they were cute. A lot of years ago I needed a bunch of kid gifts for Christmas, so I made pillowcases from those novelty fabrics. They were a hit.
The far right panel are a few of the pillowcases I made and kept that year.
Sometimes if I have leftover fabric from a quilt and I know I won't use it for any thing else I'll make a pillowcase with it (near right). Friends have made me pillowcases (bottom near left). And sometime I find a novelty fabric that I just HAVE to have; I know I'll never make a quilt from it but it calls my name...like the ugly turtle pillowcase (top near left) and the fishing pillowcase (far left)...
And the cowgirl pillowcase above...who could resist, not me.Or this dragon pillowcase...
Aren't these dragons just wonderfully evil looking? Sigh. I don't want to give this one away.But I will, because these are not all of my pillowcases. I haven't shown the ones on my bed, the spare bedroom bed, covering cat pillows, or protecting chair cushions from cat hair....
Hello, my name is Joy, and I am a pillowcase addict.
2 comments:
I can see why! Pillowcases are so fun to make, give and receive! I have two pillowcase projects on my sewing table right now. One is with owl fabric. Why owls? I really don't know. I just thought they were cute! The other is soccer fabric. I loved it for my son, but I just didn't see it in a quilt so a pillowcase it is!
Those are fun! I've not made more than a couple of pillowcases and both of them were donation ones. I was hoping to have enough leftover fabric to make matching pillowcases for my daughter and her new hubby but ran short.
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