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I made this bolster as a gift for a dear friend. I recently reconnected with my favorite college music professor. He and his wife celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this year. Though I hadn't seen Duane and Pink in over 25 years, I was invited to attend their party. I had to do the finishing on this bolster pillow by the seat of my pants since I didn't have any directions for how to do it. I simply took the knowledge I have about making a square pillow or wall hanging, and adapted it to make a tube. The overall look of the pillow was inspired by a few of the needlework blogs I frequent. Some of the artists out there have a great ability of putting various fabrics together. I wanted to give that a bit of a try. I found three flannel prints that worked well together. 1. The border around the stitchery has little polka dots and ladybugs. The dots mimic the musical notes and the colors balance the birds. 2. The back of the pillow and the "jelly roll" ends are a blue fabric with white clouds. This way the birds have someplace to fly. 3. The inside of the "jelly roll" ends is a blue and white stripe. I've turned the end back a bit on the left side in this photo to show it off. I sandwiched some small pompom trim between the layers of fabric on the ends. Again, the pompoms echo the shape of the musical notes and polka dots. Finally, I tied bows to form the "jelly roll" with some narrow picot-edged satin ribbon. I'm really pleased with the way this pillow turned out. It was very well received by my old prof.
A portion of this sales price goes to Oprah's Angel Network
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