Pillow Trial and Error

I kind of disappeared last week because I got a bee in my bonnet. I’ve been hard at work feathering my nest in preparation for the long winter. Or in other words, trying to clear my desk off and batten down the hatches for all the Christmas craziness I sign myself up for every year. Plus I had some much beloved family pop in to town, and since they would appreciate it, I wanted to have the place looking as finished as possible.

I’ll be sure and share pictures. It’s amazing how different the place looks with a few rugs and pillows.

Since my whole style is pretty much Traditional-things-done-in-an-untradtional-way, it would probably come as no surprise that I draw huge inspiration from Denyse Schmidt. I’m doing the whole house in a style reminiscent of art deco/midcentury modern design, so I had this vision in my head of a design that I thought I could render in her kind of style.

I failed miserably.

Don’t they look like bar graphs? Like they belong in the background of a cell phone commercial?

I had planned on making six pillows, two for each couch throughout the house, and once I completed the first four, I decided I absolutely hated them. For the last two I decided to go in a different direction.

Ahhhh. Much better. So obviously, I now have to go back and make four more pillows to replace those first missteps. I think my problem was that I was trying to evoke Denyse Schmidt in a totally bogus cheater method. I was hoping I could get away with just doing everything in strips instead of taking the time to do the puzzle as I went. Once again, proof that shortcuts are not worth the trouble.