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Chatsworth House cross-stitched pillow.

heyitsbex · February 24, 2015 · Leave a Comment

I am far from good at sewing. My mom once made my sister’s grade eight graduation dress. I stood in awe at the fact she was capable of making something so awesome. I tried to use her ancient singer for years. It hated me. Never once did it co-operate. A few weeks ago, I attempted to use my sister’s sewing machine. It’s much newer and much more fond of me. I managed to pump out 70 cloth diaper inserts, which were really just 4 layers of rectangles sewed together around the edge.

With some confidence in my abilities, today I decided to finish off my beloved Chatsworth House cross-stitch I picked up in England back in October. My mom taught me how to cross-stitch when I was rather young. It was so exciting to pick it up again as an adult and actually finish a fair sized piece!

intricate cross stitch pattern of chatsworth house

I had decided I wanted to make it into a pillow. There’s an awesome discount fabric store in Edmonton that I had found a really nice gold material at. Bonus that it was on clearance too! I picked up a pillow form while I was there too. I knew I wanted the pillow slip to come off the pillow form, just incase it needed to be cleaned at some point. I went back and forth between a zipper and buttons, until I realized that making a pocket would be the easiest thing to sew.

After ripping out three seams after realized that the cross-stitch was on backwards, and sewing three seams around it’s entirety to get the size tight enough, I finally can say I sewed something half decent!

pillow propped up on chair pattern facing forward
cross stitched pillow with gold back on chair.

Sewing is definitely something I’d love to do more of! I’d love to hear what was your first sewing project was!

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