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!