a simple wedding pillow

A couple of weeks ago, my sister got married in Paris,

I totally missed it as travelling over there was not an option,

but I made her a silk-linen pillow to commemorate the event.

It is a very simple, tone on tone pillow, made of off-white raw silk

natural color linen, and natural cotton hand embroidery.

I followed this tutorial from Samelia's mum as I previously did

when I made Miss C.'s heart coaster.

This time I rounded the edges of the L and E,

not straight line here!

Before appliqueing the love linen heart,

I quilted the silk in a diamond pattern to 2 layers of batting (no backing)

I wanted extra puffy without using synthetic batting.

Then I hand embroidered the date using a back stitch,

going over multiple times (like I did with the Teddy Taggie toy)

to give it a calligraphy look.

The back is linen with a zipper.

I decided the front needed more linen,

so I did a linen bidding like a quilt, instead a traditional pillow.

It was my first time doing this way,

I like it, it adds a nice frame,

I am going to have to try it again on another pillow.

It turned out really nice,

traditional without being cheesy,

a little heirloom but not lacy.

Modern and cool 

like the happy couple!

Congratulations, sis!

Teddy taggie toy

While the pretty pink bib was a perfect baby present,

I wanted to make something else, but not another bib.

I make this sweet teddy taggie toy, with ribbons

and a little embroidery.

I followed this tutorial by down grapevine lane, it makes noise, super fun!

The embroidery turned out really cute, I did by hand after tracing Bebe from 

a computer printout, then I appliqued it to the same pink felt from the bib.

Personalisation would have been even better, but I did not know the young lady's name,

French is always a nice touch,  American babies like it too! 

The back is just a soft fleece, in pink of course...

The little teddy taggie toy looks perfect with the new bib.

Happy sewing!

a new baby bib

We just welcomed a new baby in our circle of friends,

so of course I had to make something.

My favorite for new babies: a bib of course.

And since it is a precious little girl,

it is very pink!

I have made quite a few of those bibs as you can see below,

it is easy, fun and parents seem always pleased.

It works well for boys and girls:

the first 2 (K and bears) were for baby girls,

the last 2 (crocodile and forest) were for baby boys.

I used this pattern from Nested, which is the one I use most.

And as usual I lined the bib with an off-white chenille, very absorbing

and soft on baby skin.

I played with some ribbon, some felt and of course a little Paris shopping girl

from a Japanese print.

Simple and cute

Happy sewing!