PILLOW TALK!

Today's my day for a Pillow Talk blog post.

All the Moda designers are supposed to make a pillow and blog about it.

Click here to read the overview of the blog hop.

http://modafabrics.blogspot.com/2011/01/pillow-talk.html

No where does it say we were supposed to SEW a pillow.

So I Photoshopped the pillow above.

Moda Lissa said I might tell you when pillows were invented....

The first decorator pillow---a spotted rock

But I think I'll just tell you when pillows were hot.

About 100 years ago when the picture postcard was THE thing, people sent picture postcards of pillows.

Women showing off pillows

Showing off doll and pillows

Showing off baby and pillow

Showing off pajamas and pillows

And a Kansas fiftieth anniversary pillow, 100 years ago.

Here's the postcard I altered for the top of the page.
I bet their mothers didn't know they were photographed in their nightgowns. Things like that go on in Chicago.

The fad for pillows in the early 20th century was encouraged by the arts and crafts design movement. Gustav Stickley's magazine The Craftsman often featured pillow designs.
 

Above is my sister's living room with Stickley furniture and pillows of antique textiles or reproductions.

Many of her reproductions are from Dianne Ayres Textile Studio.

The appliqued and embroidered ginko leaf is a Stickley design on linen.

See Dianne's web page Textile Studio:

http://www.textilestudio.com/pillows.htm#embpills

And the book she wrote with several co-authors:

American Arts and Crafts Textiles.

It's everything you need to know about decorating with Craftsman textiles.

But wait--- this is supposed to be about my fabric---not Dianne.

So I've photoshopped another pillow.

Above is an appliqued adaptation of William Morris's Strawberry Thief, done in my William Morris reproduction prints, stitched by Georgann Eglinski and photoshopped into my reproduction Morris chair.

Buy the pattern for the applique here:

https://www.pickledishstore.com/productDetail.php?PID=1121

And here's the pillow I should have sewed. You can download a free pillow case pattern from American Patchwork and Quilting's All People Quilt web site by clicking here. They've used fabrics from my Morris Tapestry collection for their Million Pillow Cases project.

http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/freepatterns/BasicPillowcase2011.pdf

Tomorrow Deb Strain entertains on the Pillow Talk Blog Hop. Click here on Feb 18th.

http://debstrain.blogspot.com/