I had fabric left after I finished some lampshades last month and I decided to gift my client a pair of special pillows.  The white is a wool and linen blend from Twill and the yellow print is linen from Vervain.

Here are the lampshades I made for her, ten for a chandelier and the square for a table lamp.

I’ve been experimenting with raffia for embroidery and decided to try dying it with Rit.  I drew a paper pattern and transferred it to my wool.

The Rit dye worked perfectly, I got a nice aqua blue.

It was a pretty quick embroidery, just a few days.

I made the wool pillow with a knife edge and a small flange in a different linen.  For the yellow print linen, I outline quilted and washed it, then made the pillow with a boxed, shirred border in the self fabric and two small flanges.

Kathi