olive fabric, take I

As I wrote in my last post,

I played with the fabric from Provence my Mom sent me.

You probably have seen my inspiration:

the PB olive oil patch pillow cover ,

cool, but not soft and over price!

So I made my own version, and my own patch!

I used the fabric from the top right corner,

the image sticks out of the clear square onto the yellow border,

so I decided to go wider, much wider!

I fused some wonder under to the patch

(a little smaller than the actual square),

and like PB I stitched twice around the patch

and frayed the edges

(does not work if fused to the top!)

The background fabric is 100% linen from Joann,

it does wrinkle a lot,

but has a great live in feel!

The rest of the pillow is sewed simply, without zipper,

just by overlapping the fabric in the back,

as I have done on these pillows.

As I was concerned about all the frayed edges

and our "active" life style

(ie. big dogs, small children)

I decided to make another one:

Here I just sewed bands of linen around the olive oil picture.

I just love this fabric!

Together they work well,

and so far the raw edges are surviving nicely

Come back tomorrow for more olive goodness

and Wednesday for the giveaway!

*update: giveaway closed*

Happy sewing!